Argentina

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  False alarms: Bomb threats received at Casa Rosada and Army HQs in Buenos Aires

  

  The explosives division of Argentina's Federal Police was summoned late Thursday to Casa Rosada after a bomb threat was received. A similar warning had been made regarding the Army headquarters (Edificio Libertador) some three blocks from the Government's House.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina launches Sustainable Transportation Plan

  

  The Government of Argentina Thursday launched the National Sustainable Transportation Plan aimed at achieving 2030 goals regarding energy transition for passenger, cargo, and private vehicles.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentina: Milani not guilty in purchase of mansion above his paygrade

  

  Former Argentine Army Chief of Staff General César Milani has been acquitted in the case of “illicit enrichment” filed against him for being unable to justify how he had managed to afford a luxurious residence in a most exclusive area north of Buenos Aires on his military officer's pay.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego students competition on Malvinas issues

  

  High School students from Ushuaia, capital of the Argentine southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego were invited to participate in a competition, “Asking about Malvinas”. The competition to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war was sponsored by the city's program “Young Ushuaia”, and the provincial Youth Coordination office from the Culture and Education ministry.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires high schools seized by protesting students

  

  High-school students in Buenos Aires have taken over 11 of the city's public schools in demand of changes in the curricula and citing “political persecution.”

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region

  

  Monkeypox has reached Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes Region in Chile. Tierra del Fuego province head of Epidemiology Office confirmed three cases in Ushuaia, one in Rio Grande and four more suspects. On the other side apparently a case has been reported in Puerto Natales, a woman who recently visited neighboring Argentina, while Chilean authorities announced that the country has enough vaccines to begin inoculation in October.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:53 UTC

  Mapuche violence escalates in Argentine Patagonia

  

  As Mapuche violence escalates in the Villa Mascardi area in the Department of Bariloche in the Argentine Patagonia province of Río Negro, former Security Minister and current PRO Chairwoman Patricia Bullrich Wednesday said fugitive rebel Facundo Jones-Huala was hiding there.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:30 UTC

  Argentine beef exports grow but demand from China takes downward path

  

  Argentine beef exports have grown interannually but demand from China is 20% lower than in July and decreasing, with a marked downward trend in prices, according to a report from the Argentine Beef Exporters (ABC) Consortium in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine judge releases 14 crewmembers of Emtrasur's 747

  

  A federal judge in Argentina has dismissed all charges against 14 of the 19 crew members of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft seized at Buenos Aires Ezeiza international airport. They were all given their passports back and cleared to leave the country at will.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 21:36 UTC

  Mar del Plata sex workers oppose relocation of red-light zones

  

  Sexual workers in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata do not agree to abide by the new red-light zone created earlier this month, causing an uproar among locals who do not want them around their residential areas.