Tag: Buenos Aires

Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 10:45 UTC
Women's Day celebrated all over Mercosur

Women took to the streets of the capital cities of the three Spanish-speaking Mercosur countries to celebrate International Women's Day. There were similar events in other towns throughout the region, it was reported.
Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 21:10 UTC
Argentina eyes National Food Company to regulate domestic prices

The Government of Argentina is planning to create a National Food Company as a measure to curb inflation, keep prices under control and help small and medium producers, Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti said Thursday in Buenos Aires.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:16 UTC
COVID-19 not the only infectious threat in Argentina

Argentine vacationers can catch diseases other than COVID-19, which can even bring on worse symptoms, it was reported after the Health Ministry announced it had detected cyanobacteria in AMBA (City of Buenos Aires and territories around it) and in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe
Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 18:01 UTC
20 dead, many others hospitalized due to tainted cocaine in Argentina

Authorities in the Argentine town of Hurlingham, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Wednesday reported 20 people had died and 74 others had been hospitalized after consuming tainted cocaine.
Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:20 UTC
Ambassadors gather at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum to remembers victims

Ambassadors from 14 countries in Buenos Aires paid a tribute to the victims of Shoah, the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s during a ceremony at the Museum in Buenos Aires Monday remembered the Holocaust
Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:19 UTC
New US Ambassador presents his credentials to Argentine President

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday received the credentials from the new Ambassador of the United States to Buenos Aires.
Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Aerolíneas Argentinas announces return of daily flights to Madrid

Starting in the coming month of April, Aerolineas Argentinas will resume its daily flights between Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport to the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas terminal in Madrid. The frequency had been interrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.
Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:22 UTC
Low cost airline has started three weekly flights Buenos Aires/Ushuaia

Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is celebrating the arrival of a new airline which will have three weekly schedules, but equally significant is the fact it is low-cost Flybondi which opens greater options for residents and tourists planning to travel to the extreme south of Argentina, and the main cruise hub to Antarctica.
Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:18 UTC
Buenos Aires road safety boss dies in highway car crash

Oscar Astoreca, director of Road Safety in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, died in a car crash last Saturday down National Route 2 (highway between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata) near the town of Lezama, some 163 kilometers south of the country's capital.