Tag: Buenos Aires

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Amazon planning a regional data center in Argentina; congress passes bill to attract digital services and nanotechnology

  

  Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division plans to build a regional data center in a free-trade zone in Argentina, according to Buenos Aires media reports. The Seattle-based company is preparing to invest about US$ 800 million in the project over 10 years and will reap considerable tax benefits by locating the data center in the Bahia Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of the province of Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Hundreds of women dress up as Eva Peron in support of Argentina's opposition

  

  Women dressed as Eva Peron, old political anthems blaring in the streets, flash-mobs with step-perfect choreography - it's all part of the present-day cut and thrust of politics in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 08:09 UTC

  Tango championship in Buenos Aires suspends violent Russian participant

  

  A Russian participant in the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires has been disqualified for violence towards his partner, the organizers said on Wednesday. The incident happened after the duo, a husband and wife, took part in the semi-final of the competition on Tuesday in the Argentine capital.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentina has decided to freeze funds of seven Iranians, accused of a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina has taken measures to freeze the funds of seven Iranians, including the International Relations Advisor of Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati, on charges of involvement in an attack on a Jews cultural centre.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentina expanding LNG pipeline from Vaca Muerta to Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina on Wednesday launched an international tender for a multibillion-dollar pipeline to transport natural gas from the Vaca Muerta shale formation in the western part of the country to capital Buenos Aires. Bids will be opened on September 12.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Johnson/Macri, a ten-year friendship since they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires

  

  The Argentine media is pointing out that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Argentine president Mauricio Macri first met when they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires, --and full of ambitions--, and have since had a cordial standing personal relation. The first meeting took place at the Davos summit, Switzerland, in January 2009, and according to witnesses the chemistry was immediate.

• Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 11:43 UTC

  Pompeo in Buenos Aires at counter-terrorism summit offers US$ 7 million for info on Hezbollah leader

  

  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed on Friday in Argentina that the United States has imposed financial sanctions against a Hezbollah militant group leader suspected of directing a deadly bombing in 1994 of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured hundreds.

• Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Meeting in Buenos Aires of the Scientific Sub Committee of the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands reported on Friday that the Scientific Sub Committee of the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission met in Buenos Aires on 17 and 18 July 2019. The SAFC was first established in 1990 and this was the third meeting to take place since the reestablishment of regular meetings in 2018.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 23:59 UTC

  Macri paves way for Hezbollah to be deemed 'a terrorist organisation' in Argentina

  

  The Argentine Government has created the Public Registry of Persons or Entities Linked to Acts of Terrorism and its Financing (RePET), a tool whereby Hezbollah can be included. So far, local authorities adhered to the list penned by the United Nations, where Hezbollah is not included. President Mauricio Macri also decreed a day of national mourning to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Social Welfare Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires. In a third measure, Macri gave the victims of that attack 180 days to file for monetary compensation from the state.

• Thursday, July 11th 2019 - 12:39 UTC

  Former Argentine President De la Rua buried in private ceremony

  

  Former Argentine President Fernando de la Rua was laid to rest Wednesday during a private ceremony at a cemetery in the Pilar area, some 50 kilometers northwest from Buenos Aires. De la Rua, who ran the country between December 1999 and December 2001, had died of cardiac and other complications at the nation's capital on Tuesday. He was 81.