Crypto Solvency Proof
Three months after crypto exchange FTX collapsed, Argentina’s government is weighing creating oversight requirements on crypto companies, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The country’s local regulator, …
Echegaray on trial
Former AFIP tax bureau chief, Ricardo Echegaray, and former Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, along with half a dozen other defendants, will stand trial on March 8 for the …
Aconcagua claims more victims
The highest peak in the Americas claimed its first victim of the year on February’s first weekend, when Moi Oystein, a 62-year-old Norweigian mountaineer suffere a fatal heart attack when …
Argentina on track with targets
Between January 30th and February 1st, Argentina paid US$ 1.365 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to refinance the US$ 45-billion loan incurred by the Mauricio Macri administration in …
Summer: 10 hidden, enjoyable spots
The sweltering heat of the Argentine summer demands vacation breaks in places where taking a dip is easy. Mar del Plata, Pinamar and Cariló remain some of the first-choice options along the Atlantic coast …
Mauricio & Horacio back together
Ex-president, Mauricio Macri, and City Mayor, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, met up for the second time this year in the Patagonian holiday centre of Villa La Angostura (complete with a symbolic …
YPF Luz – Production record in 2022
With load factors that exceeded 60 percent on a sustained basis and with months exceeding 70 percent, the Manantiales Behr wind farm, operated by YPF Luz, was positioned as leader …
Ace in the hole for Argentina
Argentina’s economic team is cautiously looking at the impact upcoming increases in energy gas prices tariffs will have on inflation in the first quarter of 2023, but there is oxygen …
Enzo Fernández breaks record
Former River Plate midfielder, Enzo Fernández, (author of memorable goal against Mexico in the Qatar world Cup) is now also ex-Benfica as from January 31st, after being sold to Chelasea …
Catastrophic or moderately optimistic?
For quite a while now we’ve been hearing negative sentiment regarding the near future. At least since the pandemic delivered an unexpectedly hard blow to the whole world, which had …
Argentina’s 2022 Census – Update
Last year’s census gave a population of 46.044.703 inhabitants (of whom 51.76 percent are female and 48.22 male), INDEC statistics bureau announced, almost six million more people than the 2012 …
Raft of relief mesures against drought
Economy Minister, Sergio Massa, Agricultural Secretary, Juan José Bahillo, and other senior officials, met the Mesa de Enlace farming leaders to inform them of a raft of relief measures against …
Bernal and Shell, investment plans
Federico Bernal, Undersecretary of Hydrocarbons, received Shell’s local authorities to review the company’s project and investment agenda. Bernal highlighted the importance of the Sierras Blancas/Allen Pipeline, built by the Shell’s …
YPF – More investments for 2023
YPF’s President , Pablo González, highlighted the company’s 2022 closure “with an investment of u$s 4,100 million and a total production growth of 9%, the highest in the last 25 …
2022 – That was the year that was
Even without an election and with coronavirus in full retreat, it remained an eventful year as this narrative will endeavour to show. So without any further ado, here goes: JANUARY …
Brazil and Argentina – Combined currencies
Argentina and Brazil are in the preliminary stages of renewing discussions on forming a common currency for financial and commercial transactions, reviving an often-discussed plan that would face numerous political …
Argentina – Summer tourist boom 2023
Huge numbers are being reported for summer toruism. According to CAME retailers association, almost 20 million Argentines (19.7 million, to be exact, or 58 percent up from last summer) have …
Davos – Argentine new tech firm
Kilimo, an Argentine company that uses data to optimise irrigation, received strong financial support at this year’s Davos forum to continue developing a system that helps farmers in Latin America …
‘Argentina, 1985’ wins Golden Globe
Argentina, 1985, the film chronicling the historic trial that saw the leaders of the country’s brutal 1976-1983 military junta convicted and sentenced for crimes against humanity committed during their reign …
Dollar rollercoaster, debt rollover
While the “blue” parallel dollar has been bouncing around on either side of 350 pesos in the early days of 2023, the government carried out behind the scenes a major …