Tag: Buenos Aires

• 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.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Argentina to buy electricity from Brazil due to storm

  

  Following the disruption caused by last weekend's storms to the country's grid, Argentina will import electricity from Brazil on a transitory basis, it was reported Sunday, in addition to other emergency measures adopted to face the crisis and restore supply in parts of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CAMA) and its Metropolitan Area (AMBA).

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 09:31 UTC

  Buenos Aires Court rulings go Macri's way

  

  Separate court rulings issued Tuesday in Buenos Aires seemed to accommodate former President Mauricio Macri's agenda, thus heralding the times to come after Javier Milei's Dec. 10 inauguration.

• Wednesday, November 15th 2023 - 18:10 UTC

  Roger Waters denied hotel rooms in Buenos Aires, Montevideo for his stance on Middle East issues

  

  Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been denied room bookings at two Montevideo hotels because of his anti-Israel stance on the ongoing Middle East conflict with the terrorist group Hamas.

• Friday, November 3rd 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  French tourist dies in Buenos Aires after robbery

  

  A 77-year-old French tourist dropped dead of an apparent heart attack at a police station in Buenos Aires Thursday. He was going to file a report after he had been robbed of his belongings when he was about to board an intercity bus at the Retiro Terminal in the Argentine capital.

• Wednesday, October 25th 2023 - 11:15 UTC

  City of Buenos Aires has new Mayor-elect: another Macri

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri's cousin Jorge will become the next Mayor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires after Leandro Santoro of Economy Minister and presidential hopeful Sergio Massa's Unión por la Patria (UP) announced he would not be taking part in the runoff for which he had qualified last Sunday.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Marches staged in Buenos Aires for and against Israel

  

  Scores of members of the Jewish community in Argentina marched down Buenos Aires' Estado de Israel Avenue in front of the Hacoaj Club given Hamas' attacks during the weekend. They chanted slogans such as “Together, Israel will always defeat terror.”