Tag: Buenos Aires

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:27 UTC

  Authorities on alert over poisonous stingrays on Argentine La Plata river shores

  

  Argentine authorities have issued a series of recommendations after the appearance of poisonous stingrays on the beaches of Punta Lara and Ensenada, south of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) was reported.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Over 4 million people celebrate chopper-borne world champs in Buenos Aires

  

  Over four million Argentine football fans needed in the end to look up to see helicopters carrying the national team players overfly the Obelisk Square area and other parts of Buenos Aires because the bus could simply not get through the crowd along the highway from the Football Association's training camp in Ezeiza.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 20:11 UTC

  Over 4 million pack Buenos Aires streets for uncertain World Cup celebrations

  

  Over four million Argentine fans were still baffled Tuesday afternoon as to where the national football team would be celebrating last Sunday's 4-2 win on penalties over France at the Qatar 2022 World Cup final.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 19:28 UTC

  Argentina's largest province joins list of those banning alcohol while driving

  

  The Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, the largest in the country, has enacted a law establishing the maximum amount of blood alcohol for drivers is zero. The zero-tolerance measure also establishes fines, arrests, and the withholding of the divers' license for offenders.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Buenos Aires Police said to be repressing harmless fans celebrating team's victory over Croatia

  

  Argentina's Secretary of Human Rights Horacio Pietragalla Corti Tuesday demanded Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to “stop repressing” jubilant groups marching through the streets of Buenos Aires to celebrate the national team's victory over Croatia at the Qatar 2022 football World Cup.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Murderer of English tourist in Buenos Aires gets life imprisonment

  

  A Buenos Aires court Tuesday sentenced the murderer of Matthew Charles Gibbard, an English tourist, to life imprisonment, while the assailant's accomplices were handed down suspended or effective sentences of between two and four years in jail.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentina: COVID-19 spreading faster in Province of BA that in CABA

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires has reported the fastest pace in the growing number of COVID-19 cases, surpassing that of the City of Buenos Aires which was leading national statistics up until this week.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Maradona world's biggest mural unveiled in Buenos Aires

  

  On the day football legend, Diego Maradona was to have turned 62, thousands gathered Sunday in the Constitución neighborhood in Buenos Aires to see a mural dedicated to him unveiled.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Three people died after a poodle fell 34 years ago and social media remembers it

  

  On October 21, 34 years ago, a curious and unusual tragedy took the lives of three people who had nothing to do with each other on a corner in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Marta Espina, 75, was walking carelessly along Rivadavia Avenue when, shortly before reaching the corner, Cachi, a poodle, landed on her head after falling 13 stories from a balcony of a building, causing immediate death to both Espina and the dog.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 19:02 UTC

  Real estate prices fall in 90% of Buenos Aires

  

  According to a survey published by Buenos Aires' daily Ámbito, 90% of Buenos Aires' areas recorded a drop in the sale price of real estate property in September of 2022 when compared to the previous month.