Argentina

Buenos Aires (EFE).- The protest against the labor reform being debated by the Argentine Senate on Wednesday began with protesters throwing stones and at least one Molotov cocktail, and police responding with tear gas and rubber bullets, which caused great tension in the Congress Square in Buenos Aires. Hundreds of...

By Carlos Meneses Asunción (EFE).- The European Union and Mercosur signed an ambitious free trade agreement on Saturday, creating the world’s largest free trade zone, a historic event that occurs amid the new tariff offensive by United States President Donald Trump. The signing ceremony of the trade treaty, which was...

By Florencia Pessarini Buenos Aires (EFE).— Jana Maradona, the daughter publicly recognized by Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona in 2014, told EFE that her relationship with her father was marked by legal battles from birth and later by the controversial trial against the doctors who treated him before his...

Buenos Aires (EFE).- The President-elect of Chile José Antonio Kast, met with the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, on Tuesday in Buenos Aires, and anticipated a good relationship between the two countries. «We are going to have a great relationship between Argentina and Chile,» Kast told the press outside the...

By Florencia Pessarini Buenos Aires (EFE).- Five years after Diego Maradona died on Nov. 25, 2025, the annulled trial meant to determine who was responsible for his death revealed crucial failures in his medical care while recovering at a private home outside Buenos Aires, according to testimony heard before the...

Buenos Aires (EFE).– A Buenos Aires judicial panel Tuesday dismissed Judge Julieta Makintach, who presided over the trial concerning the death of footballer Diego Maradona, for her unauthorized role in a documentary about the case. The Judiciary Jury of the Buenos Aires Legislature removed Makintach, ruling that her actions constituted...

Buenos Aires (EFE).- Tens of thousands of people participated in the 34th Pride March in Buenos Aires amid strong calls for attention to the growing hate speech and violence suffered by the LGBT+ community in Argentina. The event began Saturday morning with a festive atmosphere and colorful displays at the...

Buenos Aires (EFE).- President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, won Argentina’s legislative elections Sunday with 39 percent of the vote, according to official results. With 95.6 percent of ballots counted, La Libertad Avanza secured victories in Argentina’s most populous regions — including Buenos Aires City, Córdoba, Santa Fe and...

By Florencia Pessarini Buenos Aires (EFE).- A year after former One Direction member Liam Payne’s death at a Buenos Aires hotel, his family and fans await the start of a trial that will include only two of the five initially charged, both accused of drug dealing, against the wishes of...

By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla Washington, (EFE). – United States President Donald Trump met with his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, on Tuesday during a lunch at the White House, in which he expressed his full support, but conditioned the US financial aid to Argentina on the results of the official...

Buenos Aires (EFE).- An Argentine court on Wednesday sentenced Fernando Sabag Montiel to 10 years in prison and his former partner, Brenda Uliart, to eight years for attempting to assassinate former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015; 2019-2023) in 2022, in an attack that shocked the country and nearly...

Buenos Aires (EFE).- Vera Vigevani Jarach, a leading figure in the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora organization, and a representative figure in the fight for human rights whose daughter disappeared during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983), passed away on Friday in Buenos Aires at the age of 97....