ARGENTINA

Argentina: disability and university laws prevail

Published on: December 18, 2025
11:05

Buenos Aires, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) Javier Milei's administration secured the Chamber of Deputies' approval of a budget that deepens austerity measures and favors the wealthiest; however, it failed to repeal laws providing assistance to people with disabilities and university funding.

Argentina: Vandal attack on Union Leader’s Office condemned

Published on: December 15, 2025
13:10

Buenos Aires, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The Justicialist Party in the Province of Buenos Aires condemned the vandalism attack on the office of Cristian Jeronimo, leader of the Glassworkers' Union (Seivara) and one of the secretaries of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).

Argentina: Union strike, massive protests against labor reform

Published on: December 9, 2025
13:10

Buenos Aires, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) More than 90 percent of state workers went on strike and joined numerous demonstrations in cities across Argentina against the government's proposed labor reform, which they claim curtails their rights.

Argentine Justicialist Party defines strategy vs Milei’s reforms

Published on: November 19, 2025
09:24

Buenos Aires, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) The Justicialist Party (PJ), still presided over by Cristina Fernandez, has begun a series of meetings to define its strategy in response to the reforms proposed by the government of President Javier Milei.

Uruguay: US-Argentina agreement a bad sign for Mercosur

Published on: November 18, 2025
12:19

Montevideo, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay's Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries (MGAP), Alfredo Fratti, expressed concern about the impact on Mercosur of the trade and investment agreement signed between Argentina and the United States.

Argentina: Unions begin mobilizing against labor reform

Published on: November 18, 2025
12:12

Buenos Aires, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) State employees, oilseed workers, are finalizing preparations today for tomorrow's march to the Ministry of Labor to protest the labor reform proposed by the government of Javier Milei, which they consider detrimental to workers' rights.

Argentinians friends of Cuba paid tribute to Fidel Castro

Published on: November 16, 2025
05:34

Buenos Aires, Nov 17 (Prensa Latina) Argentinians who are friends of Cuba, Cubans residing in Argentina, and members of Cuban state missions in the country paid tribute to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on the ninth anniversary of his death.

Argentina: Faculty members from 66 public universities on strike

Published on: November 12, 2025
09:43

Buenos Aires, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) About 200,000 faculty members from Argentina's 66 public universities began a 72-hour strike to demand that the government implement the University Funding Law passed by Congress, the application of which it has suspended.

Buenos Aires hosts Ibero-American Cities Forum

Published on: November 6, 2025
10:42

Buenos Aires, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) The Usina del Arte cultural center in Buenos Aires is hosting on Thursday the Forum "Ibero-American Cities: Dialogue, Integration and Action for a Common Future," with the participation of leaders from 22 cities.

Cristina Fernandez remembers the NO to the FTAA

Published on: November 5, 2025
10:17

Buenos Aires, Nov 5 (Prensa Latina) Twenty years after the historic continental rejection of the United States' hegemonic Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) project, Cristina Fernandez recalls Nestor Kirchner's speech on that occasion.

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