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Montevideo, November 17th 2024 - 08:04 UTC

Tag: Buenos Aires

  • Saturday, October 19th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    VIP drug dealing gangs linked to Payne's death in Buenos Aires

    Pending lab results could corroborate whether Payne was intoxicated when he fell to his death

    Investigators in Buenos Aires believed VIP drug dealers for the rich and famous played a part in the death of pop music star Liam Payne in the Argentine capital this week. According to a post-mortem, the former One Direction singer fell from the balcony of a hotel in the Palermo district, which caused hemorrhages. Payne had been in Argentina since appearing at a concert by former bandmate Niall Horan on Oct. 2.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 05:45 UTC

    UK music world shocked by the death of Liam Payne in Buenos Aires

    Payne fell last night from a third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

    The music world reacted Thursday shocked in the United Kingdom by the death of British singer Liam Payne, former member of the band One Direction, who fell last night from a third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:57 UTC

    JetSmart discontinuing Buenos Aires-Montevideo route

    JetSmart's expectations were far from being met, it was explained

    Chilean budget carrier JetSmart announced it would be lifting the Buenos Aires-Montevideo effective Oct. 1 route after finding it unprofitable, particularly when no subsidy was obtained from the Uruguayan government. The service had been operational for only four months.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    Pot and pan-banging protests staged after positive outcome at the Senate

    While some protesters took to the streets, Milei's government praised “the patriotic” Senators who voted in favor of the bill

    Residents and natives of the Argentine capital - known collectively as “porteños”- took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday evening banging pots and pans to protest against the Senatorial broad approval of the Libertarian Administration's Bases Law bill in addition to the police repression outside Congress against demonstrators earlier on.

  • Thursday, May 23rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Rockstar Milei launches his new book

    Milei was hailed like a rockstar by his teenage followers

    Argentine President Javier Milei took center stage Wednesday at Buenos Aires' iconic Luna Park stadium to booth launch his latest book and sing a song from the local band La Renga. The unusual move was supported by his die-hard teenage followers and criticized by the rest of society going through an economic crisis that reminds older people of 1989 and 2001.

  • Saturday, May 11th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    No fatalities reported after train clash in Buenos Aires

    There is a total degradation of the state-run railway company, railway union leader Maturano explained

    A train collision at 10.30 am Friday in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo left many people injured but no casualties were reported. While authorities are yet to determine the cause of the accident, railway union leaders blamed the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei for the faulty signaling which has worsened over the past few months given the increase in copper wiring thefts.

  • Wednesday, May 8th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) in BA to be renamed Palacio Libertad

    Under Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) several initiatives to rename it were unsuccessful

    Argentine authorities announced Tuesday that the Kirchner Cultural Center in Buenos Aires would be renamed “Palacio Libertad,” Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni confirmed. Still, Adorni failed to specify when the name change would become effective but it was explained that the modification would stem from a Casa Rosada decree.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 02:55 UTC

    Argentine Justice seeks repatriation of plane used in Condor Plan kidnapping

    The Condor Plan was a coordination between the military dictatorships of several Latin American countries in the 1970s and 1980s to persecute and eliminate political opponents. Photo: AFP

    The Argentine justice system has requested Uruguay to repatriate a plane allegedly used in the infamous Condor Plan, a coordination effort between South American dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s. The aircraft, a Hawker Siddeley twin-jet, is believed to have been utilized in the transfer of detainees during this dark period of political repression.

  • Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 19:03 UTC

    Heavy storm leaves one dead, downs trees, and disrupts flights in Buenos Aires

    The SMN foresees more thunderstorms for the remainder of Tuesday and Wednesday

    The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) and parts of the metropolitan areas around it which together make up the so-called AMBA were hit by heavy rains on Tuesday morning- One person was found dead in the Lanús area, five blocks from the CABA limits as residents coped with an orange alert from the National Meteorological Service (SMN) warning of possible thunderstorms and occasional hail.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Two schoolchildren faint as Milei gives a speech

    Speaking about Communism always brings on problems, the president joked as two students fainted during his appearance at the Catholic school he and his sister attended

    Two students fainted Wednesday in Buenos Aires as Argentine President Javier Milei inaugurated the school year at the Cardenal Copello Catholic school in Buenos Aires, which he attended with his sister and current presidential secretary, Karina.

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