Tag: Buenos Aires

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 18:18 UTC

  Argentine minister vows to halt speculative imports of unnecessary items

  

  Argentina's Productive Development Minister Daniel Scioli has announced he would step in to curb speculative imports and stop those who take advantage of the existing dual exchange rate between the local peso and the US dollar.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Prosecutors launch terrorism probe on Emtrasur 747's captain

  

  Argentine Prosecutors have decided to charge the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 21:06 UTC

  Argentina: 19 provinces hit by shortage of diesel fuel

  

  The shortage of diesel fuel, which at first affected only 8 provinces, has spread to the extent that Patagonia is the only region not yet going through a crisis, it was reported.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Ports of Montevideo, Colonia and Buenos Aires had to be closed on Monday due to fog

  

  After the strong reduction in visibility registered in the country this Monday due to fog and mist, which according to the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) will persist until next Thursday, the ports of Montevideo, Colonia, and Buenos Aires decided to close, reported the Uruguayan newspaper El Observador.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  The Falklands Conflict – Then and Now

  

  By Harold Briley for MercoPress (London) – The 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict is being commemorated all year with events in the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom, and Argentina as MercoPress has reported.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Slight increase in COVID-19 cases in Argentina

  

  Health authorities in Argentina have reported that the number of fatalities due to COVID-19 has tripled in Buenos Aires, while total infections have almost doubled in a week as temperatures take a downward turn.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Air-link Falklands/Sao Paulo “discontinued” or exchanged for a direct flight from Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine media is reporting that Buenos Aires informed the UK is not willing to renew the 2019 political agreement which enabled the establishment of a second air link between the Falkland Islands and the continent (Brazil), but is prepared to discuss a new air link under different conditions.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:12 UTC

  Uruguayan President makes unofficial one-day trip to Buenos Aires

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou last week took an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight and made a day trip to Buenos Aires Wednesday for “strictly family and private reasons,” it was reported.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires' Aeroparque opens up to Colombian routes

  

  Argentina's National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) announced earlier this week that it was allowing flights to and from Colombia could operate at Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport (AEP / SABE).

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina shocked by brochure advising on safer consumption of drugs

  

  Argentine opposition Deputy Waldo Wolff of the Macrist Juntos por el Cambio (JxC - Together for Change) Monday announced he would be filing a lawsuit against the City Council of Morón, a district in the western outskirt of Buenos Aires, after a series of leaflets advising on the cautious use of drugs sparked nationwide controversy.