Tag: Buenos Aires

• Wednesday, April 20th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentine port workers to stage 24-hour strike Thursday

  

  Argentine port workers will stage a 24-hour strike Thursday to demand certainties from the national government regarding the official port policy. The measure will affect operations at Buenos Aires and other terminals, it was announced.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  “It's going to be a long cold winter in Buenos Aires”

  

  By Haley Zaremba, Oilprice.com – A fuel shortage is causing political turmoil and social unrest in Argentina, and could even result in a food shortage as the South American nation’s grain transporters call or a strike in the face of sky-high fuel prices during the harvest season for soy and corn.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Pepe Mujica: Britain's stance regarding Malvinas/Falklands a thing of the past

  

  Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica, who was in Buenos Aires during the weekend to join Alberto Fernández for the ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom, insisted “the Malvinas claim reminds us that there is still colonialism in the world.”

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Chilean President lands in Buenos Aires

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font landed Sunday afternoon at BuenosAires' Ezeiza international airport for a two-day official visit which marks his first trip abroad as head of state.

• Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Malvinas Families Commission needs funds to finance a mass on Saturday at Buenos Aires cathedral

  

  With the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War only a couple of days away, relatives of the Argentine fallen regret they have been forced to request donations to finance a homage mass to the heroes that lost their lives fighting for Argentine sovereignty over the Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Presidential aircraft performs shocking stunt on approach at Buenos Aires airport

  

  Video footage of Argentina's Air Force T-04 Boeing 737-500 landing at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque in a quite unorthodox style went viral Tuesday on Youtube. The aircraft is a part of the Presidential fleet.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  China to help Argentina finance imports, ambassador says

  

  China's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Tuesday said in an interview published by the local newspaper Ámbito that his country was willing to “promote financial support to Argentina for the payment of imports.”

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 21:27 UTC

  30 years later, Israeli community in Buenos Aires pays tribute to those killed in embassy bombing

  

  Hezbollah was once again singled out as the organization behind the 1992 bombing of Israel's Embassy in Buenos Aires, a crime for which, after 30 years, nobody has ever been held accountable.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Three provinces concentrated 74% of Argentine US$ 78bn. exports in 2021

  

  Three mainly agricultural provinces in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, and Córdoba accounted for 74% of the US$ 78 billion exported by the country in 2021, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 21:41 UTC

  Alitalia's successor to start serving Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires in June

  

  Italy's new airline ITA, which was founded to replace the extinct Alitalia, has announced it would start flying to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires from Rome and back in the coming month of June.