Tag: Buenos Aires

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Kirchnerist businessman Baéz will remain under house arrest; family divided over harsh sentences

  

  Argentine businessman and associate of former president Néstor Kirchner, Lázaro Báez will not return to jail for the moment. He will continue with an electronic anklet under the modality of house arrest in a house located in a gated community in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Huge blackout affects Buenos Aires City for several hours

  

  A huge power cut in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires caused a blackout to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Tuesday and brought metro lines to a standstill. The blackout also occurred when the country's medicine and pharmaceutical regulator extended an emergency authorization to the Pfizer BioTechN vaccine.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina has 1,510,203 Covid-19 positive cases and a death toll of 41,204

  

  Argentina on Tuesday reported 6,981 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its national tally to 1,510,203, said the Ministry of Health. The ministry also said that 165 more patients died of the disease, raising the nationwide death toll to 41,204.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Maradona in life, as in death, involved in chaos and controversy: fans overwhelm and invade the presidential palace

  

  Diego Maradona in life, as in death, was involved in chaos and controversy, and his funeral was not the exception. In effect Argentine police and fans who were lined up to see the casket of the football icon clashed on Thursday as authorities moved to shut down access to the Casa Rosada presidential palace ahead of a planned mid-afternoon shutoff for the public wake.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Maradona buried next to his parents, amid a global outpouring of grief in the streets of Buenos Aires and Naples

  

  Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever soccer players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina and Pakistan sign MoU to promote trade and technological cooperation

  

  Pakistan and Argentina signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Sanitary and Phytosanitary issues, during a ceremony conducted in Buenos Aires with the purpose of promoting and sponsoring trade in animals, plants, and by-products, as well as technical cooperation.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Coronavirus cases and deaths keep growing despite some 200 days of quarantine in Argentina

  

  Argentina surpassed 900,000 cases of coronavirus on Monday, with strong growth of infections in large populated centers in the interior of the country after months of the virus' being concentrated in Buenos Aires City and its suburbs in the neighboring province of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina approves growing GM drought resistant wheat; needs OK from its principal market, Brazil

  

  Argentina has become the first country to approve the growth and consumption of genetically modified wheat, the country's agriculture ministry announced. The ministry's scientific commission said in a statement released in Buenos Aires that it had approved a drought-resistant variety of wheat in the world's fourth-largest exporter of the crop.

• Saturday, October 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Controversy in Buenos Aires City over live facial recognition to identify minors

  

  Human Rights Watch wants the city of Buenos Aires to stop using live facial recognition to identify children accused of committing crimes, the rights group said on Friday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said Buenos Aires started using the technology in 2019, making Argentina the only country in the world to deploy it against people under the age of 18.

• Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Argentina: hogs from an overturned truck slaughtered in the highway by thieves

  

  A truck carrying live pigs turned over in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and neighbors and other cars looted the cargo and in some cases slaughtered the animals in the highway. The accident took place in the access of Coronale Vidal, some 300 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires.