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Montevideo, October 17th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

Tag: Buenos Aires

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Milei restores ties with Macri after Buenos Aires defeat

    The reunion between the two leaders comes less than a month before the national legislative elections

    Argentine President Javier Milei has resumed dialogue with former president Mauricio Macri after more than a year of political distance. The rapprochement comes in the wake of La Libertad Avanza’s electoral defeat in Buenos Aires province, where Peronism won by more than one million votes.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Mayors of São Paulo and Buenos Aires discuss key economic axis

    Jorge Macri discussed with Ricardo Nunes advancing a joint agenda based on their sister city relationship in place since 1999

    The mayors of South America's two largest cities, São Paulo and Buenos Aires, gathered in the Brazilian metropolis to discuss strengthening cooperation and promoting investments, with a focus on establishing an axis as the primary hub of urban competitiveness and economic development in the region.

  • Monday, September 8th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Milei's party dealt heavy blow in province of Buenos Aires

    Milei admitted mistakes were made, but will not change course

    Argentine President Javier Milei's ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) suffered a severe blow on Sunday in the midterm elections in the province of Buenos Aires at the hands of arch-rivals Fuerza Patria, the name under which Kirchnerism-Peronism entered the contest. Turnout stood at 63%.

  • Monday, July 7th 2025 - 09:03 UTC

    Buenos Aires Peronists join forces to fight Milei's chainsaw policies

    “The chainsaw is becoming increasingly ruthless,” Kicillof warned

    The Justicialist (Peronist) Party (PJ) in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires agreed on a unified strategy vis-à-vis the Sept. 7 mid-term provincial elections in a convention attended by 691 representatives and chaired by Fernando Espinoza. The conclave agreed on appointing a commission to form this new front.

  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    JetSMART launches Recife-Ezeiza route

    The carrier's offer adds to Gol's biweekly flights to Aeroparque

    JetSMART Airlines launched its first direct flight from Recife to Buenos Aires on Tuesday, marking the carrier's entry into Brazil's Northeast region and expanding its international routes in South America's largest country to ten services, across five cities (Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, Nova Iguaçu, São Paulo, and Recife).

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Scufffles between retirees and law enforcement officers reported in Buenos Aires

    The situation keeps heating up as leftwing organizations and unions seek to capitalize on demonstrations that have been going on for years

    Clashes between law enforcement officers and demonstrators during Wednesday's traditional protest by Argentine retirees in Buenos Aires demanding better wages and medical coverage were recorded once again this week as unions and leftwing organizations tried to block a street, thus triggering Security Minister Patricia Bullrich's anti-picket protocol, which resulted in senior citizens, a girl and a photographer pepper-sprayed as authorities sought to keep traffic flowing.

  • Thursday, March 13th 2025 - 08:45 UTC

    Violent clashes recorded as football hooligans joined weekly retirees' protest

    One photographer was left in a critical condition as a result of the violent clashes

    Over 120 people were arrested, and more than 20 needed hospitalization after violent clashes between Argentine riot police and retirees demanding better wages with support from numerous groups of organized football fans from the main local clubs known as “barrabravas,” which could be roughly translated as “hooligans” representing Chacarita, River Plate, Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo, Huracán, Racing, Vélez, Banfield, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Argentinos Juniors, Tigre, Lanús, Ferro Carril Oeste, All Boys, Atlanta, Temperley, Almirante Brown, Excursionistas, Deportivo Morón, Quilmes, Nueva Chicago, and Los Andes just to name a few.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    CABA: Electricity supply restored gradually but “complicated” days ahead

    Temperatures are expected to rise Thursday and Friday, so electricity consumption will not go down

    Although the electricity supply resumed gradually in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) starting at around 3 pm, “complicatted” days lie ahead given the scorching heat that boosts demand to operate air conditioning equipment. By Wednesday afternoon, service began to be restored to 70% of households, but some 196,000 users were estimated to still be without power after two massive blackouts.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Milei says anti-fascist LGBT+ protesters duped by “edited” version of his speech

    Participating in Saturday's LGBTQ+ march was Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, among other opposition leaders

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Sunday that he was saddened by how those participating in the Feb. 1 Gay Pride demonstration in Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo were “used with an edited video.”

  • Saturday, November 30th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    Posters of VP Villarruel rekindle feud with Milei

    It is yet unknown who was behind the stunt that did shake Buenos Aires' political waters

    Buenos Aires dawned Friday with posters of Vice President Victoria Villarruel apparently launching a political movement of her own, which further stirred the political momentum amid tensions between her and President Javier Milei. The phenomenon sparked a series of accusations as to who was behind the initiative, of which the Senate Speaker's Office denied any knowledge.

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