Tag: Buenos Aires

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentina: COVID-19 spreading faster in Province of BA that in CABA

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires has reported the fastest pace in the growing number of COVID-19 cases, surpassing that of the City of Buenos Aires which was leading national statistics up until this week.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Maradona world's biggest mural unveiled in Buenos Aires

  

  On the day football legend, Diego Maradona was to have turned 62, thousands gathered Sunday in the Constitución neighborhood in Buenos Aires to see a mural dedicated to him unveiled.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Three people died after a poodle fell 34 years ago and social media remembers it

  

  On October 21, 34 years ago, a curious and unusual tragedy took the lives of three people who had nothing to do with each other on a corner in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Marta Espina, 75, was walking carelessly along Rivadavia Avenue when, shortly before reaching the corner, Cachi, a poodle, landed on her head after falling 13 stories from a balcony of a building, causing immediate death to both Espina and the dog.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 19:02 UTC

  Real estate prices fall in 90% of Buenos Aires

  

  According to a survey published by Buenos Aires' daily Ámbito, 90% of Buenos Aires' areas recorded a drop in the sale price of real estate property in September of 2022 when compared to the previous month.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:55 UTC

  Argentine State admits responsibility for impunity and cover-ups in AMIA case

  

  Argentina's Justice Ministry Friday admitted during an Inter-American Human Rights Court hearing in Montevideo that the State had “violated rights and was not able to ascertain the truth” in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish welfare association AMIA in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:41 UTC

  Mayor of Buenos Aires wants federal gov't to quit improvising

  

  Following the President Alberto Fernández administration's creation of a so-called “Qatar dollar” for transactions abroad with credit cards, Buenos Aires Mayor and potential presidential candidate said nobody will “invest in Argentina with so many exchange rates.”

• Wednesday, October 5th 2022 - 19:08 UTC

  Tenants group advances “no empty house” bill in Buenos Aires

  

  An organization claiming to represent Buenos Aires' tenants has submitted a bill before the City Hall whereby idle units are to be put out for rent on a mandatory basis after 90 days.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Leftwing organizations hold bartering fair in front of Casa Rosada

  

  Social organizations have staged a countertrade fair at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo (in front of Casa Rosada, the Presidential HQ) and at other squares nationwide to protest against what they call the demise of the monthly wage.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentina: Milani not guilty in purchase of mansion above his paygrade

  

  Former Argentine Army Chief of Staff General César Milani has been acquitted in the case of “illicit enrichment” filed against him for being unable to justify how he had managed to afford a luxurious residence in a most exclusive area north of Buenos Aires on his military officer's pay.

• Thursday, September 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires high schools seized by protesting students

  

  High-school students in Buenos Aires have taken over 11 of the city's public schools in demand of changes in the curricula and citing “political persecution.”