Tag: Mendoza

• Wednesday, December 10th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentina: Mendoza Province Senate approves copper mining project amid intense protests

  

  The Mendoza Provincial Senate has given final approval to the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the controversial PSJ Cobre Mendocino mining project, with 29 votes in favor, 6 against, and 1 abstention. The decision was reached despite massive protests due to fears of water contamination.

• Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Argentina: Legal team to seek acquittal of French rugby players in rape scandal

  

  The legal team representing French international rugby players Oscar Jégou and Hugo Araudou after they were charged with rape in the Argentine province of Mendoza announced Wednesday that they would be mooting for their clients' acquittal after a psychological report on the woman who claimed to have been the victim was found to be full of “inconsistencies and contradictions.”

• Monday, August 19th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentina says terrorist cell in Mendoza deactivated

  

  Argentine authorities last week dismantled what was believed to be an “Islamist” terrorist cell planning to attack Jewish community sites in the province of Mendoza and arrested seven suspects in the process, some trying to cross over to Chile and others at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 08:48 UTC

  Mendoza and Newcastle win the FAO Green Cities Initiative Awards

  

  FAO presented Mendoza in Argentina and Newcastle in the United Kingdom with its first-ever Green Cities Initiative Awards during a special event for its Green Cities Initiative, GCI.

• Monday, September 25th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Argentina: JxC candidate wins gubernatorial elections in Mendoza

  

  Alfredo Cornejo of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a party within the opposition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) alliance and particularly close to presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, won Sunday's elections to become governor of Mendoza for the third time in his life.

• Monday, May 22nd 2023 - 08:56 UTC

  Snowfalls leave thousands of Chilean weekend shoppers stranded in Mendoza

  

  Thousands of Chilean travelers were stranded Sunday in the Argentine province of Mendoza as the Cristo Redentor Path was closed at 3 pm due to bad weather (snow), it was reported. The decision was made jointly by both countries, reported Los Andes. Shortly before, traffic from Uspallata onwards had also been cut off. It is an average one-hour drive from there to Cristo Redentor

• Monday, April 24th 2023 - 11:03 UTC

  FIFA's U20 World Cup in Argentina and a toponymy controversy over “Malvinas” stadium

  

  The FIFA Council has confirmed Argentina as the host of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023. The decision follows the removal of the original tournament host, Indonesia, as well as a subsequent bid submitted by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and an on-site inspection by a FIFA delegation to the South American country last week.

• Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 19:09 UTC

  Argentine Muslim woman to collect damages after burkini ban

  

  A judge in the Argentine province of Mendoza sentenced a hotel to pay AR$ 400,000 (around US$ 1,070 at the unofficial exchange rate) in damages to a young Muslim woman who was not allowed in 2017 to use the facility's swimming pools wearing a burkini in 2017, it was reported this week.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Mummified Inca boy to be returned to his burial site

  

  Authorities in the Argentine province of Mendoza announced that the mummified remains of an 8-year-old Inca boy will be returned to the place where they were found 37 years ago.

• Saturday, October 29th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Oil company to build solar farms in Argentine province of Mendoza

  

  A leading oil company has pledged U$S 100 million to build two solar farms in the Argentine province of Mendoza, it was reported this week.