Tag: Buenos Aires

• Friday, August 17th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Buenos Aires most liveable city in Latam, but region scores in the bottom half

  

  Buenos Aires is the most liveable city of Latinamerica followed closely by Santiago de Chile and Montevideo, according to the 2012 report form the Economist Intelligence Unit which ranks the degree of satisfaction and comfort of residents in 140 cities from all over the world based on several factors.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 16:55 UTC

  Buenos Aires tango festival in full swing

  

  Buenos Aires is once again throbing to the rhythm of tango as this year’s Buenos Aires Tango Festival and Tango Dance World Cup gets underway here attracting over 2.000 musicians and dancers from around the world.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:12 UTC

  Buenos Aires city underground service back running after ten day strike

  

  Buenos Aires commuters will return to the underground trains on Tuesday following a temporary labour agreement which puts an end to a nerve racking ten-day strike that made the Argentine capital collapse at times

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  Workers confirm tenth day running of subway strike in Buenos Aires

  

  Buenos Aires City one million commuters will be punished with yet another day, ten running, without subways as no agreement was reached between the striking workers with the Metrovias company.

• Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires City subway strike enters eighth day; Macri blames Cristina

  

  Buenos Aires subway splinter workers union announced Friday evening that they failed to reach an agreement with licensee company Metrovías and that the strike will continue for another 24 hours.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 18:58 UTC

  Chaos in Buenos Aires City as subway service strike enters sixth day

  

  Chaos in Buenos Aires City traffic as the 600.000 daily subway commuters were again left on Wednesday with no service for the fifth day running and no prospects of a solution in sight as a mediation effort with striking workers collapsed.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 11:48 UTC

  Argentine construction activity slows down for third month running

  

  Argentine construction activity in Argentina during June dropped for the third consecutive month compared to a year ago. The drop was 1.5% according to the Construction Activity Synthetic Index (ISAC) from the country’s stats office, Indec.

• Monday, July 30th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  End of blackout to Buenos Aires plazas but now the Obelisk flag was stolen

  

  A good one and a bad one for the government of the City of Buenos Aires: Economy minister Nestor Grindetti announced that an agreement had been reached with power companies to bring light back to several public areas of the city that had remained in the dark for several days due to unpaid bills.

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:29 UTC

  Best looking women cities: Kiev, Stockholm and in the neighborhood Buenos Aires

  

  Travelers Digest's Top Ten Cities With The Most Beautiful Woman says Kiev is 'without a doubt, home to the world’s most beautiful women', closely followed by Stockholm and not so distant Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Jewish community remembers 18th anniversary of bombing in Buenos Aires

  

  Wednesday marks the 18th anniversary of the fatal bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eighty-five people were killed by the blast with hundreds wounded.