Tag: Buenos Aires

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 09:31 UTC

  Buenos Aires Court rulings go Macri's way

  

  Separate court rulings issued Tuesday in Buenos Aires seemed to accommodate former President Mauricio Macri's agenda, thus heralding the times to come after Javier Milei's Dec. 10 inauguration.

• Wednesday, November 15th 2023 - 18:10 UTC

  Roger Waters denied hotel rooms in Buenos Aires, Montevideo for his stance on Middle East issues

  

  Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been denied room bookings at two Montevideo hotels because of his anti-Israel stance on the ongoing Middle East conflict with the terrorist group Hamas.

• Friday, November 3rd 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  French tourist dies in Buenos Aires after robbery

  

  A 77-year-old French tourist dropped dead of an apparent heart attack at a police station in Buenos Aires Thursday. He was going to file a report after he had been robbed of his belongings when he was about to board an intercity bus at the Retiro Terminal in the Argentine capital.

• Wednesday, October 25th 2023 - 11:15 UTC

  City of Buenos Aires has new Mayor-elect: another Macri

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri's cousin Jorge will become the next Mayor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires after Leandro Santoro of Economy Minister and presidential hopeful Sergio Massa's Unión por la Patria (UP) announced he would not be taking part in the runoff for which he had qualified last Sunday.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Marches staged in Buenos Aires for and against Israel

  

  Scores of members of the Jewish community in Argentina marched down Buenos Aires' Estado de Israel Avenue in front of the Hacoaj Club given Hamas' attacks during the weekend. They chanted slogans such as “Together, Israel will always defeat terror.”

• Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 09:14 UTC

  False bomb threats affect flights from Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina's Airport Security Police (PSA) Friday enacted its explosives deactivation protocol at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport after two flights inbound from Sao Paulo's Guarulhos were said to be carrying a bomb aboard each. Two simultaneous bomb threats were received at the Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 call center, it was reported.

• Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 07:07 UTC

  Popular Uruguayan trap artist arrested twice in Argentina: Suspected of robbery

  

  Uruguayan singer Facundo Cedrés, better known as Pekeño 77, has been arrested twice in Argentina in recent days. On Saturday, he was arrested in Buenos Aires for “suspicious attitude” when police officers observed a Ford Ecosport van entering a service station. Cedrés was one of three Uruguayan citizens in the van and identified himself as Pekeño 77. The police seized the van, tools, and a significant amount of money in US dollars and Argentine pesos. He was released after the arrest.

• Wednesday, August 2nd 2023 - 10:57 UTC

  Hottest Aug. 1 in 117 years recorded in Buenos Aires

  

  The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), the capital of Argentina, Tuesday recorded its hottest Aug. 1 in the last 117 years, with temperatures reaching 30.1 degrees Celsius, according to National Meteorological Service (SMN) data.

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires City Police to start using stun guns

  

  Buenos Aires City authorities Wednesday announced the metropolitan police will start using non-lethal stun guns as of July 17, it was reported from the Argentine capital. City Security Minister Eugenio Burzaco confirmed some 250 officers will be on the streets carrying these weapons.

• Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:56 UTC

  Police close down Buenos Aires bar hosting massive sexual gathering

  

  A restaurant named “Swap” in the most exclusive Parque Leloir area in Ituzaingó, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, has been closed after patrons were found trading ordinary culinary activities for couple swinging, threesomes, and orgies, it was reported in the Argentine capital.