Tag: Buenos Aires

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday congratulated Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine president said no plans to bail out Buenos Aires province, the richest of the country

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Monday night confirmed that the national government had no plan to bail out Buenos Aires province, which has a payment due later this month on hard-currency provincial debt.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Buenos Aires province US$ 227 million debt payment on Jan 26, a major test for creditors

  

  Argentina's debt talks will face their first big test this month with a US$ 277-million payment due on a Buenos Aires provincial bond, seen as a gauge of how the indebted nation's new government will handle its creditors.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Nisman's death controversy reignited: “there isn't a shred of proof” he was murdered, says president Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday he doubts that a prosecutor who died two days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre committed suicide. But he insisted “there isn't a shred of proof” that Alberto Nisman was murdered, as his family insists.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine president calls for “social responsibility” from business people, otherwise government will intervene

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez called for “social responsibility” from business people demanding they don't increase prices above reasonable levels, since “fighting inflation is a battle that involves all of us”.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentine individuals and corporations hold some 322.3 billion dollars outside the domestic financial system

  

  Argentines ever so suspicious of their currency and so fully confident in the all mighty US dollar, they have some US$ 322 billion hidden in the “mattress”, which means mostly overseas in bonds, shares, real estate, according to the latest figures released by the country's stats office, Indec.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentine ex police officer linked to killings and torture extradited to Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine ex-police officer linked to the murder of hundreds of people during the country's “dirty war” was on a plane to Buenos Aires on Monday, after France extradited him to face trial over the disappearance of a student.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentine police arrest four suspects linked to the gang that killed an English tourist

  

  Argentine authorities said on Monday they had identified suspects in the shooting death of a British tourist killed in an armed robbery attempt outside a luxury Buenos Aires hotel over the weekend.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Briton killed in Buenos Aires identified, other non-fatal victim was his stepson

  

  The British citizen killed in Buenos Aires Saturday during a robbery has been identified as the 50-year-old millionaire Matthew Charles Gibbard, who was travelling with his wife Suzane, his stepson, Stefan Zone, 28, also shot in the incident and still hospitalized, and other family members.

• Sunday, December 15th 2019 - 00:13 UTC

  One British tourist killed, other shot at in Buenos Aires classy neighbourhood

  

  One British tourist was killed at around 11 a.m. Saturday and his son was injured outside Buenos Aires' luxurious Faena Hotel in the fancy Puerto Madero area as they were attacked by motorbike snatchers, it was reported.