Tag: Buenos Aires

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Tourists leave hundreds of millions of dollars in Argentina

  

  Foreign tourists have left US$ 850 million in Argentina during the recent winter recess, Buenos Aires authorities reported this week. The local government also said 4,510,000 visitors had entered the country through all border crossings, of whom 2,312,000 were leisure travelers.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 18:55 UTC

  Argentine boxing legend Horacio Accavallo dies aged 87

  

  Argentine boxing legend Horacio Accavallo, the second world champion in the country's history, died Wednesday in Buenos Aires, it was announced. He was 87.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Court of Appeals rules in favor of most crewmembers of Emtrasur's 747

  

  An Argentine court of appeals Tuesday ruled that the ban from leaving the country on 12 of the 19 crewmembers of the Venezuelan freighter seized at the Ezeiza International Airport must be reviewed at the earliest.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 02:14 UTC

  Attempted assassination: man who tried to shoot Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrested

  

  A Brazilian man was arrested on Thursday in Buenos Aires after attempting to shoot Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernandez in the vicinity of her home, when a vigil was being held in her support, as confirmed to the press by the country's Security Minister, Anibal Fernandez. The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, declared a national holiday for Friday and said: “This event is extremely serious, it is the most serious that has happened since we have recovered our democracy.”

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Relatives of Emtrasur's 747 crewmembers land in Buenos Aires

  

  A group of relatives of the crew members of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter seized by Argentine authorities since early June Thursday landed in Buenos Aires to step up the pressure on the Judiciary.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Child of polyamorous family may have 2 dads and 1 mom, Buenos Aires judge rules

  

  A Buenos Aires judge has issued a ruling legally recognizing the right of a polyamorous partnership to have their baby registered with two fathers and one mother.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Conviasa suspends Caracas-Buenos Aires route

  

  Venezuela's flag carrier Conviasa has announced it will halt its Caracas-Buenos Aires route at least until September in light of the refueling problems all its aircraft face for belonging to a company blacklisted by the US Treasury.

• Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Faulty lithium batteries caused the fire that killed Jewish family in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine prosecutors handling the case of Thursday's fire at a building in Buenos Aires' Recoleta neighborhood where 5 members of a Jewish family were killed Friday explained that according to preliminary forensic assessments the cause of ignition was a faulty skateboard lithium battery.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 21:51 UTC

  Five dead, many injured in Buenos Aires building fire

  

  At least five people belonging to a Jewish family died Thursday and 35 others were injured during a fire in a Buenos Aires uptown apartment building, it was reported.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 20:28 UTC

  Israel's Embassy in Uruguay says Venezuelan 747 involved in arms traffic

  

  Israel's Embassy in Montevideo Wednesday claimed that the Iranian crewmembers of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized by Argentine authorities in Buenos Aires were involved “in arms trafficking to Syria” and with the terrorist organization Hezbollah.