Tag: Corrientes

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  President Fernández to tour fire-torn Argentine province of Corrientes

  

  President Alberto Fernández will travel Friday to the areas in the Argentine province of Corrientes which have been affected by devastating fires over the past few days.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Argentine province of Corrientes gripped by uncontrolled fire

  

  Over 10% of the territory of the Argentine province of Corrientes (northeast) has been consumed over the past few days by fires that were caused intentionally, according to some video footage that went viral on social media.

• Monday, August 30th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Governor reelected in Argentine province of Corrientes heralds further defeats for President Fernández's party

  

  Incumbent Governor Gustavo Valdés of the Radical Civil Union (UCR) was reelected Sunday for a new four-year term in office at the helm of the Argentine province of Corrientes.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Legislator from the Argentine province of Corrientes shot during a campaign speech

  

  Peronist provincial lawmaker Miguel Arias was shot at during the party's closing ceremony not far from the town of Paso de Los Libres as the province of Corrientes gets ready for this coming Sunday's elñections where the offices of Governor and Vice Governor will be at stake.

• Friday, June 14th 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  Students from a rural school helped identify an Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  A project led by students at a rural school in San Luis de Palmar, the Argentine province of Corrientes, helped identify the remains of a fallen combatant during the South Atlantic conflict: Ramón Cirilo Blanco, according to researchers at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE).

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentina creates a 395.000 acres marshlands park; land donated by the Tompkins Conservation

  

  A new national park in Argentina that will help protect the country’s incredible wetlands, forests and grasslands well into the future, as well as putting a new part of the country on travelers’ maps has been given the green light by the Argentine government.