Tag: Corrientes

• Monday, September 1st 2025 - 10:15 UTC

  Incumbent's brother elected Governor of Corrientes

  

  If Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Corrientes are anything to go by, given the upcoming mid-term polls, President Javier Milei's candidate took fourth place while Juan Pablo Valdés of the “Vamos Corrientes” coalition - and brother of incumbent Goovernor Gustavo Valdés - secured victory in the first round with 52% of the vote, which is enough to avoid a runoff. The Radical Civic Union (UCR), to which the Valdés brothers belong, has now governed the province for 24 years.

• Friday, August 29th 2025 - 10:20 UTC

  Karina Milei's motorcade jeered in Corrientes

  

  Argentina's Presidential Secretary (and sister) Karina Milei and Lower House Speaker Martín Menem were jeered Thursday as they rallied in the province of Corrientes in support of La Libertad Avanza's candidate Lisandro Almirón.

• Friday, May 10th 2024 - 20:27 UTC

  New incident between Argentine forces and illegal Paraguayan fishermen

  

  The Governor of the Argentine province of Corrientes Gustavo Valdés insisted that the Foreign Ministry and the Senate should get involved after another clash was reported between unauthorized Paraguayan fishermen and the Coast Guard (Prefectura Naval Argentina - PNA). “I hope they take care and do not continue denying the conflict as they have been,” Valdés underlined.

• Monday, March 4th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Corrientes and Montevideo under water due to heavy rains

  

  The city of Corrientes, the capital of the Argentine province of the same name, was left under water Sunday as 209 millimeters of heavy rains caused floods and material damage while vehicles were swept away by the current. Classes were suspended for Monday amid widespread power outages, with streets turned into temporary rivers.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Dengue kills man in Argentine province of Corrientes

  

  Argentine health authorities have issued an epidemiological alert after a man died of dengue in the city of Corrientes. The patient, who was reported to have underlying pathologies, had been rushed from his San Luis del Palmar residence to the “Escuela Hogar” hospital, in the provincial capital.

• 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).