Tag: Buenos Aires

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 08:11 UTC

  Rural producers stage protest against Argentine government policies

  

  A massive demonstration by Argentine rural producers convened Friday in the town of San Nicolás de Los Arroyos in the province of Buenos Aires to celebrate Independence Day and express their disapproval of the policies undertaken by the administration of President Alberto Fernández.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Aerolíneas Argentinas to resume flights from Buenos Aires to Puerto Madryn

  

  Argentina's flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas has announced the resumption of services between Buenos Aires and Puerto Madryn twice a week, starting July 8.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  World Bank loan for the sewage system of Buenos Aires City

  

  The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$ 265 million loan to continue infrastructure works in the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin which borders Buenos Aires City. The works will improve the wastewater system, which has become an open cyst pool, by reducing organic pollution of the river by 80%.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Those who left Buenos Aires must stay where they are until May 31: Argentine Security Minister

  

  Argentine Security Minister Sabina Frederic Monday warned that those who left their homes in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) for the long weekend which included the May 24 and 25 holidays will not be allowed to return home before May 31, when the current strict confinement is over.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court endorses Buenos Aires City' objection to decree banning on-site schooling

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in favour of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) and against the Federal Government in their controversy regarding on-site schooling.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine President Fernández extends current covid-19 restrictions until May 21

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday announced the current restriction on the circulation of people in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) was being extended until May 21.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Ford increases output in Argentina, hires more workers

  

  Despite all pandemic-related setbacks, Ford's carmaking plant in Pacheco, 30 kilometres northwest of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) in Argentina, has increased its output of the Ranger model, for which 256 new personnel has been hired, it was reported.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentina: Buenos Aires prepares for stricter measures against Covid-19

  

  A group of advisers to the Argentine President assessed the coronavirus situation Monday, after which further restrictive measures to be announced shortly appear inevitable.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  City of Buenos Aires bans all non-urgent surgical procedures to free up hospitals for covid-19 patients

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta Thursday ordered all health care facilities regardless of whether public or private to cancel every non-urgent surgical procedure or treatment scheduled for the coming days to make room for the increasing number of covid-19 patients who need hospitalization, it was announced.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina: Mother of Plaza de Mayo VP Porota Meroño dies aged 95

  

  The Association Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Wednesday announced in a statement the passing away of the organization's Vice President Mercedes Colás de Meroño, known as “Porota.”