Tag: Buenos Aires

• Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  Two schoolchildren faint as Milei gives a speech

  

  Two students fainted Wednesday in Buenos Aires as Argentine President Javier Milei inaugurated the school year at the Cardenal Copello Catholic school in Buenos Aires, which he attended with his sister and current presidential secretary, Karina.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Buenos Aires under heavy mosquito invasion

  

  In Argentina, the City and Province of Buenos Aires are going through a “peak of abundance” of the Aedes albifasciatus mosquito, which has led specialists to recommend the citizenry to up all preventive measures and use repellents, mosquito nets, and wear long-sleeve clothing. These insects are said to be behind the spread of the Western Equine Encephalitis virus (WEE).

• Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  Explosion leaves key Buenos Aires neighborhoods powerless for hours

  

  Some 30,406 households were still without electricity in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) after an explosion Saturday of a generating substation of the Edesur company in the strategic Caballito neighborhood in the Argentine capital left some 60,000 users powerless for hours, after which service was gradually restored, the (National Entity Regulating Electricity (Ente Nacional Regulador de la Electricidad - ENRE) reported Sunday.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Ship hits bridge affecting river traffic down Paraná waterway

  

  The Liberian-flagged freighter “En May” Sunday crashed onto one of the pillars of the Zárate-Brazo Largo bridge linking the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos, which affected barge traffic along the Paraná River waterway, it was reported. Two tugboats were deployed to free up traffic, it was also explained.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  Uruguay's Ambassador to Buenos Aires cautioned for attending party event in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay's Foreign Minister Omar Paganini cautioned his country's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Carlos Enciso for attending a meeting at the National Party headquarters in Montevideo hosted by former Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado as part of his bid to reach Torre Ejecutiva next year.

• Monday, January 22nd 2024 - 10:56 UTC

  Buenos Aires: Two young men stole a police car, drove 30 blocks and filmed the sequence

  

  Over the weekend, a video went viral depicting two young individuals at the wheel of a police car belonging to the Municipal Security Secretariat in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Vicente López. The incident occurred in the early morning, with the individuals seen holding alcoholic beverages.

• Monday, January 15th 2024 - 16:55 UTC

  Violent confrontation leaves five dead and five injured in Argentina

  

  A brutal clash erupted on Sunday afternoon within an occupied area in the Buenos Aires town of González Catán, La Matanza, resulting in a massacre: five dead and five injured, two of them critically.

• Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  ITA Airways flight makes emergency landing in Montevideo due to passenger's death

  

  An ITA Airways flight traveling from Rome to Buenos Aires had to make an emergency landing at Carrasco Airport in Montevideo this morning following the death of a passenger, according to airport sources.

• Saturday, January 13th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón sacks British musical director charged with child sex offenses

  

  Buenos Aires' iconic Teatro Colón Friday sacked musical director Jan Latham-Koenig (OBE) after he was arrested earlier this week at London's Victoria train station and charged with child sex offenses. The 70-year-old Briton was released on bail and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in court on Feb. 9.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

  Uneventful protest in Argentina ends in arrests and other incidents in adjacent areas

  

  Several people were arrested in downtown Buenos Aires on Wednesday after a demonstration in front of the main Courthouse in which the country's unions and some social organizations demanded that President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) of last week be overturned by the judiciary through a declaration of unconstitutionality.