Argentina

Along with water distribution experts, the government is seeking new measures to battle drought, as 50% of its territory is suffering from lack of water and over 26 million livestock animals are at risk

The government extended its state of “environmental emergency” throughout its territory for another year, with the aim of continuing to adopt urgent measures to combat its ongoing wildfires

Vice President Cristina Kirchner has been sentenced 6 years in prison for corruption and fraud attempts, being the first time in the country’s history a Vice President has been sentenced during their mandate

As a response to increasing inflation, the government has passed a law to increase the minimum wage by 20% by March 2023

As the year is heading to its end and inflation is set to hit 100%, the government has decided to freeze the prices of 1500 basic products in an attempt to stabilise the situation

The government has passed a new regulation allowing visitors to get more pesos than the official exchange rate gives, hoping that it will discourage all-cash transactions that leave tourists more vulnerable to robbers

The country continues to suffer from its ongoing drought and has thus had a cut in corn harvests; being one of the world’s top corn exporters, the government has entered an emergency state to look for solutions in order to not slow down the corn market

Local scientists have teamed up in a national project to find the cause of death of 30 whales stranded on the coast of Patagonia; the main speculation is that the deaths are due to poisoning by biotoxins produced by micro-algae

YPF, Argentina’s state-owned energy company, has begun to supply renewable power to an international crypto-mining company, as an initiative to help ease the pollution that crypto-mining creates for the globe