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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 02:31 UTC

Tag: Buenos Aires

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 18:39 UTC

    Montevideo: The most expensive city and the best place to live in Latin America?

    Unlike the cities studied of the great neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, Montevideo (and Uruguay) stands out for the quality of its democracy and its relative economic stability

    The Uruguayan capital is the most expensive and the best to live in the region. At least that's what the studies of The Economist, which positioned Montevideo behind Mexico City in terms of cost, and the consultancy Mercer, which places the capital at the top of Latin American quality of life ranking, revealed in publications made this month. El País (Madrid) explains that Montevideo has a “crazy decadent charm”. However, why does this phenomenon occur?

  • Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

    Thousands of Argentines recall the March 1976 coup and demand punishment for human rights abuses

    With slogans such as “Memory, truth and justice”, “Never again” and “30.000 Disappeared” the marchers filled the streets of the Argentine capital

    Thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Sunday to recall “Memory Day”, March 24th, on the forty-third anniversary of the military coup that led to the country's last military dictatorship that extended from 1976 to 1983.

  • Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentina plans stricter coordination to tackle illegal fishing in the South Atlantic

    According to official data some 400 fishing vessels currently operate legally in the South Atlantic which represents some US$ 2bn annually in overseas sales

    Argentina is getting tough on illegal unregulated fishing in the South Atlantic and is planning a joint effort by the Fisheries Under Secretariat, the Armed Forces and security forces. It is estimated according to government sources that Argentina loses some US$ 2.5 billion annually to illegal fishing which so far it has been unable to control. The report was published by Infobae.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 21:13 UTC

    President of Uruguay criticizes Prosur for “generating another integration with ideological purpose”

    “We are the most integrationist region in the world, We have an enormous vocation for integration, but it is the most inefficient: we superpose one process to another and another, until when?” Vazquez

    Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez questioned on Thursday the Colombian-Chilean initiative to create a new integration bloc to replace the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and argued that the region has a number of integration processes that collide and they become inefficient.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 17:13 UTC

    Renew political commitment at the South-South Cooperation summit in Buenos Aires

    Guterres believes that the ambitious and transformational 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can not be achieved without the ideas, energy and tremendous ingenuity of the countries of the South

    The member states of the South-South Cooperation Plan will meet in Buenos Aires from March 20 to 23 to launch a new strategy with a view to implementing the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 within the framework of the Second High-Level Conference of United Nations on South-South Cooperation, PABA +40. The event will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the approval of the Buenos Aires Action Plan and awaits a “renewed political commitment” from participating States.

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 20:09 UTC

    The best and the worst city to live in Latin America

    The Uruguayan capital is positioned above cities such as Buenos Aires or Santiago de Chile because of its relatively relaxed political and social environment (Photo: Nicolás Pereyra)

    Caracas, in the last place, and Montevideo ranks as the two opposite poles of the list of cities ordered by quality of life in Latin America in 2019, according to Mercer. The capital of Austria, Vienna, ranked for the tenth consecutive year as the best in the world.

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

    Argentina boosting natural gas output and plans pipeline to supply Buenos Aires

    Pipeline construction contracts valued at up to US$1.8 billion to transport natural gas from Vaca Muerta to Buenos Aires, announced Minister Gustavo Lopetegui<br />

    Argentina’s efforts to boost its natural gas output and supply are progressing through new pipeline and transport projects and auctions, moves that are expected to balance the country’s production and demand, the energy secretary said on Monday.

  • Wednesday, February 27th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

    Argentina's chief rabbi seriously injured at his home by seven assailants

    Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich was seriously injured by assailants who broke into his home while he and his wife were there, taking money and personal effects

    The head of Argentina’s main Jewish group said an assault Monday on the country’s chief rabbi was motivated by anti-Semitism. Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich was beaten and seriously injured by assailants who broke into his home while he and his wife were there, taking money and personal effects.

  • Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

    “Food emergency” demand march in Argentine cities

    Since President Macri came to power in 2015, electricity bills have gone up 210% and gas 300%, following on the removal of significant subsidies

    Thousands took to the streets in 50 Argentine cities and towns Wednesday demanding that the government declare a “food emergency” and put an end to suffocating price increases. Since President Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015, electricity bills have gone up 210% and gas 300%. The government blamed the increase on the removal of significant subsidies in place under the previous administration.

  • Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 10:30 UTC

    IMF mission in Argentina to collect data on compliance of the standby loan accord

    The head of the mission Roberto Cardarelli is scheduled to meet ministers, central bank officials, members of congress from the ruling coalition and opposition

    An IMF team is back in Buenos Aires to review the Argentine economy performance and how it is complying with the fiscal and monetary conditions established in the stand-by US$ 57 billion loan agreed last year. The head of the mission Roberto Cardarelli is scheduled to meet ministers, central bank officials, members of Congress from the ruling coalition and opposition, academia and different lobbies.