Julio Bocca – Teatro Colón
Maestro ballet dancer Julio Bocca will replace Jorge Telerman as the general and artistic director of Buenos Aires’ famed Teatro Colón Theatre, the Buenos Aires City government. The change comes after City Hall’s …
Car registration made simple
The government has advanced in the deregulation of car registration, eliminating red tape and reducing taxation to one percent, it was announced at the end of August, thus saving 36.000 …
Mercado Libre’s investment
Mercado Libre founder Marcos Galperin announced the investment of US$75 million into the unicorn’s La Matanza distribution centre together with the creation of 2,300 jobs on the occasion of a …
Nobody wins
President Javier Milei will haa presented the 2025 Budget on September 14 statutory date, albeit in a uniquely personalised format, with two huge question-marks in the immediate build-up – his …
Havanna explores unit sale
Havanna, maker of Argentina’s most famous brand of the dulce de leche-infused confections known as alfajores, is exploring a sale of its operations in Latin America, including Argentina. The company hired UBS …
F1 Franco Colapinto
Franco Colapinto, the 21-year-old thrown in by Williams Racing to compete in the last nine races of the Formula 1 season, made his debut in the Italian Grand Prix, at …
Zero deficit is a must
President Javier Milei presented his 2025 Budget to a half-empty Congress late on September 15 in a primetime speech, with the La Libertad Avanza promising to veto any law that …
Argentina Lithium
Lithium production in Argentina rose 56.7 percent in July 2024 compared with the same month last year, according to data posted by the INDEC national statistics bureau. More than 4,991 …
Charly García’s new record
Legendary musician Charly García is celebrating the release of his first album since 2017, breaking a seven-year drought for the rock nacional star. García, 72, released La Lógica del Escorpión – his …
New gasoline production record
YPF, the state-owned oil company, reached a record gasoline production record at the Ingeniero Enrique Mosconi Industrial Complex refinery. It obtained a formulated volume of 277,098 cubic meters. In May, …
Best hotel in Argentina
Five-star Gran Meliá Iguazú hotel, close to the iconic waterfalls on the border with Brazil, chosen as the nation’s best by World Travel Awards. An exclusive five-star resort with a …
New lithium plant
French mining group Eramet and China’s Tsingshan inaugurated a lithium production plant in Argentina to supply the booming electric car industry. The site in Centenario, in the northwestern province of …
Plan for public works
Argentina is moving forward with the implementation of the new public works model and has laid out guidelines that will put an end to a previous scheme introduced by the …
Delivery on economic promises
Javier Milei’s win in Congress has started the clock ticking. Argentina’s president needs achievements to convince a society that is impatient for economic change that better times are around the …
Milei’s trip to Europe
President Javier Milei was on the road again immediately after honouring Flag Day in Rosario (where he rescheduled his frustrated Pacto de Mayo for Independence Day on July 9 in …
Deregulation of telecoms
The ENACOM regulatory agency has deregulated the pricing of Internet, mobile telephones and cable television as from July, following publication of Resolution 13/2024 in the Official Gazette on the last …
Huge iceberg
The Coast Guard has detected the presence of a huge iceberg off the coast of the Tierra del Fuego capital of Ushuaia, taking measures to ensure the safety of shipping. …
Ruling a precedent?
The fallout from the acquittal of businessman,Ángelo Calcaterra, (a cousin of ex-president Mauricio Macri) has not ended with the controversial June 19 Federal Cassation Court ruling that the money he …
Milei considers China visit
Xi meeting in Beijing? Reports emerged that President Milei is considering a visit to China for a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. News of the potential visit …
Rigi Consensus
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva fired Jean-Paul Prates, the chairman of Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) – Latin America’s largest company by market value – due to differences over domestic …