News of report

Buenos Aires City reports less than 1,000 infections for ninth straight day

28-09-2020 17:11 Buenos Aires City reported 659 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday morning, the ninth day in a row that the federal capital has reported less than 1,000 infections, according to City Health Minister Fernán Quiros.

ENVIRONMENT

World isn't meeting any biodiversity goals, UN report finds

15-09-2020 15:29 Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth's vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Global warming

UN report: Increased warming closing in on agreed upon limit

09-09-2020 08:37 A hotter world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report released on Wednesday.

FOREIGN POLICY

Government calls for 'inclusive, transparent and credible' elections in Venezuela

16-07-2020 02:24 Argentina shifts stance on Venezuela, expressing "deep concern" over alleged human rights violations in troubled nation and calling for "inclusive, transparent and credible" elections.

TEch giant

US trade office adds Amazon, Argentina, Chile to 'notorious markets' list

01-05-2020 12:50 US adds five of Amazon’s overseas operations, Chile and Argentina to its list of “notorious markets’’ where pirated goods are sold. E-commerce giant dismissed the move as part of the Trump administration's “personal vendetta'' against it.

Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs warns Latin America's recession may be worse than 1980s

30-03-2020 19:45 Latin America's economies are deteriorating faster than ever before and are heading for their worst post-World War II contraction, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Surveys show strong support for Fernández's handling of virus crisis

27-03-2020 15:26 Although economic concerns run high among the Argentine population, polling suggests most Argentines approve of Peronist leader's measures to mitigate the harms of Covid-19.

by Jennifer Heiman

NEW STUDY

Average wage fell 44.3% in dollar terms under Macri government, says study

20-02-2020 07:30 New report finds there has been a collapse of the average income in dollar terms since 2015, dropping from US$1,385 to just US$771 in four years.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC: Economic activity fell 1.9% in November

23-01-2020 17:57 Production of goods and services registered 1.7% decline on previous month, with a sharper drop year-on-year.

INTERVIEW: CELS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Gastón Chillier: ‘CELS has an agenda of values, not of politics or partisanship’

09-11-2019 09:49 The executive director of Centre for Legal and Social Studies, one of Argentina’s most influential human rights groups, reflects on the organisation’s four-decade fight – and the battles that still lie ahead.

by Carly Graf

GENDER VIOLENCE

Macri promises new gender violence measures as femicides mount up

02-10-2019 14:33 President vows "concrete measures" as part of re-election campaign. Announcement comes a day after MuMalá feminist organisation reveals there has been a femicide every 32 hours in Argentina since the turn of the year.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN votes to launch new probe into Venezuela rights abuses

27-09-2019 09:41 Resolution tabled by more than a dozen countries from Latin America, including Argentina,adopted by the 47-member council. It called for the UN's top rights body to "dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission" to Venezuela.

GENDER VIOLENCE

47% of violent homicides against women in capital last year were femicides

08-08-2019 14:37 Report released by a prosecutorial unit specialising in violence against women found 19 violent murders of women over last year, of which nine were considered to carry hallmarks of a femicide.

Economic indicators

Construction activity fell 4.2 percent in June

07-08-2019 14:34 As Argentina’s election race heats up, recovery starts to cool.

Inflation

Argentine inflation decelerates for the second consecutive month with a rate of 3.1%

13-06-2019 20:04 The interannual index reached 57.3%. During the last month, the sector that grew the most was health, with a jump of 5.1%.

IMMIGRATION

Latin America, Caribbean no longer leading sources of emigration

25-01-2019 18:47 Argentina was the top destination for migrants moving within Latin America

CLIMATE CHANGE

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

13-10-2018 09:19 IPCC report warns that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster, with its authors calling for a complete transformation not just of the global economy, but of society too.

News of report

Buenos Aires City reports less than 1,000 infections for ninth straight day

World isn't meeting any biodiversity goals, UN report finds

UN report: Increased warming closing in on agreed upon limit

Government calls for 'inclusive, transparent and credible' elections in Venezuela

US trade office adds Amazon, Argentina, Chile to 'notorious markets' list

Goldman Sachs warns Latin America's recession may be worse than 1980s

Surveys show strong support for Fernández's handling of virus crisis

Average wage fell 44.3% in dollar terms under Macri government, says study

INDEC: Economic activity fell 1.9% in November

Gastón Chillier: ‘CELS has an agenda of values, not of politics or partisanship’

Macri promises new gender violence measures as femicides mount up

UN votes to launch new probe into Venezuela rights abuses

47% of violent homicides against women in capital last year were femicides

Construction activity fell 4.2 percent in June

Argentine inflation decelerates for the second consecutive month with a rate of 3.1%

Latin America, Caribbean no longer leading sources of emigration

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

Lawmaker suspended after kissing partner’s breast during Congress session

Millions in Chile capital emerge from lockdown

Federal police officer killed in fatal stabbing attack near MALBA

Foreign observers shocked by 'chaos' and 'rancour' in US debate

Coronavirus quarantine revives Argentina famous ‘grieta’

Lo que China le ofrece y pide a la Argentina para potenciar su alianza

Cristina, Aníbal F. y Etchegaray, sobreseídos por inexistencia de delito en denuncia de Laura Alonso

Herencia de Bartolomé Mitre | Los abogados de Esmeralda rechazaron el inventario de bienes

Murió Quino a los 88 años, el creador de Mafalda

Para el Gobierno, si la Corte falla a favor de los magistrados, se generaría "un descalabro jurídico"