Tag: La Pampa

• Monday, May 15th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Three governors reelected in Argentina

  

  The governors of the Argentine provinces of La Pampa, Salta, and Tierra del Fuego were reelected Sunday. Meanwhile and following a Federal Supreme Court ruling, San Juan and Tucumán had to postpone their gubernatorial elections, but the former voted for local authorities anyway, while the latter adjourned the process altogether.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine President's son stalker to take courses on sexual diversity

  

  An Argentine man in the province of La Pampa will have to take courses on sexual diversity after threatening President Alberto Fernánddez's son last year on social media, as per a plea deal between the plaintiff and the defendant's legal teams announced Monday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, April 15th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Video of Argentine provincial minister admitting to irregularities goes viral

  

  The Finance Minister of the Argentine Province of La Pampa admitted on record that most officials would end up in jail if he told the truth about an oil company during his virtual audience with local lawmakers, thus sparking a major scandal.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  NASA satellite keeps track of wildfires in Argentina

  

  Roughly 12,000 wildfires burn each year in Argentina, charring more than 1.3 million hectares (5,000 square miles) of forest and grasslands. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of one of them on January 29, 2018.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 16:16 UTC

  Drilling program in central Argentina makes three oil discoveries

  

  Petrogas announced three conventional oil discoveries from the recently-completed exploration drilling program on the Rinconada Norte block (96 sq. km. or 37 sections) located in La Pampa Province in the eastern margin of the Neuquén Basin of Argentina.