Tag: Buenos Aires

• Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's November inflation “only” 2.5%

  

  Argentina's monthly inflation in November reached 2.5% for an accumulated 45.4% so far this year and 51.2% in the last twelve months, it was announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Unexpected call of Viking Jupiter to Uruguay; she's scheduled to visit the Falkland Islands

  

  The Atlantic coast resort Punta del Este received on Saturday the first cruise vessel since the start of the pandemic. The expedition cruise Viking Jupiter was scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but since it had stopped at Cape Verde islands in Africa, Argentina is demanding a fourteen day quarantine before letting anybody in the country.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Aeroflot to serve Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

  

  Russia's flag carrier Aeroflot has announced a series of new routes as COVID-19 travel restrictions are being lifted internationally.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Opposition lawmaker wants Argentine teenagers accountable for their crimes

  

  Following the assassination of a candy store vendor over the weekend in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rage got hold of most Argentines as the alleged perpetrators of the robbery gone bad were captured a few minutes after the attack.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  British Airways to resume Buenos Aires route

  

  British Airwars has announced the resumption of its direct services between London and Buenos Aires, starting Dec. 1, albeit with a stopover in Sao Paulo, thus increasing the number of weekly seats available between the largest cities in Argentina and Brazil.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina declares Maradona's childhood house as a 'National Historic Site'

  

  Argentina authorities have declared the house in the low-income Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Fiorito where football legend Diego Armando Maradona spent his childhood a National Historic Site, it was announced learned Tuesday.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Oil tanker captain and FO shot dead off Argentine coast

  

  A sailor with a criminal record killed the captain and first officer of a Maltese-flagged oil tanker and then turned himself into the authorities off the coast of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires.

• Friday, October 22nd 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Buenos Aires' American Club closes its doors after 103 years

  

  The traditional meeting point of Buenos Aires's banking and industrial elites has shut its doors after it was unable to cope with financial hardships stemming from the COVID-19 restrictions.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 10:05 UTC

  Buenos Aires key to the region's future, says Pepe Mujica

  

  Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica said this weekend in a newspaper interview that the future of the River Plate area was at stake and it hinged on whatever happens in the Argentine capital.

• Saturday, October 16th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Jet SMART's new nonstop destination from Buenos Aires' Aeroparque

  

  Budget carrier Jet SMART's flight took off from Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP) Thursday at 5.19 pm for Jujuy's Gobernador Guzmán (JUJ) airport, marking the first flight of the airline's new nonstop service three times a week.