Argentina's Senate Approves June 17 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Interior (República Argentina) and Argentina bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, Argentina's Senate finally approved, by a vote of 47-6, the bill that would declare June 17 as a new annual non-working public holiday in Argentina, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of General Martín Miguel de Güemes ("Conmemoración del fallecimiento del general Martín Miguel de Güemes"). [full story]