Tag: Buenos Aires

• 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.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Some 700,000 households without electricity amid intense heat in Buenos Aires

  

  Power cuts hit over 700,000 households in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) as intense heat resulted in extra demand of electricity for air conditioning devises from a network that has been enduring poor maintenance for ages, thus resulting in numerous protests from people who in addition to putting up with those temperatures were forced to dispose on tons of unrefrigerated food.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Brexit minister resignation deals yet another blow to Boris Johnson

  

  Career diplomat David Frost handed in his resignation to his job as a British negotiator in the post-Brexit phase, citing his disagreement with the direction taken by Boris Johnson's government, thus dealing yet another blow to the Prime Minister's image.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  President wants Buenos Aires to no longer be capital of Argentina

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday said he was entertaining the idea that the country's capital should not be Buenos Aires, thus resurfacing a controversy from 1853-1860 which then-President Raúl Alfonsín also sough in the 1980s to reshape.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Air Canada returns to Argentina after pandemic restrictions

  

  Air Canada has resumed regular operations to / from Argentina with four weekly frequencies serving Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from Montreal, via São Paulo (Brazil), using Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

• 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.