News of bahia blanca

Milei vetoes aid fund for flood-ravaged Bahía Blanca

24-06-2025 13:19 President Milei strikes down law to create special relief and reconstruction fund for Bahía Blanca.

Report: Climate change partly behind deadly Bahía Blanca deluge

27-03-2025 09:31 Study by World Weather Attribution network of researchers concludes that climate change partly contributed to the deadly flooding in port city of Bahía Blanca.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Violence and institutional informality

15-03-2025 07:29 There are serious questions as to what happened on the streets outside Congress, but it clearly helped to distract the attention away from what was going on inside Congress and in the troubled port city of Bahía Blanca.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Bahía Blanca as a wake-up call

15-03-2025 07:16 The devastation in Bahía Blanca should serve to sweep away any illusion that state responsibilities can be abdicated in the name of the laws of the market.

BAHÍA BLANCA DEVASTATION

Milei pledges 200 billion pesos for Bahía Blanca after criticism

13-03-2025 00:20 President insulted during surprise visit to Bahía Blanca, deluge-stricken city devastated by last Friday’s storm; Milei announces US$184 million in funding, but local authorities say reconstruction could cost up to US$400 million.

TRAGEDY IN BAHÍA BLANCA

Five days on, Milei travels to storm-hit Bahía Blanca

12-03-2025 15:21 President insulted during surprise visit to Bahía Blanca, city devastated by last Friday’s storm; Reconstruction could cost up to US$400 million, says local authorities.

Tragedy in Bahía Blanca

The politics of distance

11-03-2025 13:07 Not even a symbolic gesture of accompaniment at a time when the population feels abandoned.

by Eduardo Reina

FLOODING IN BAHÍA BLANCA

Rescuers searches for two young girls lost in Bahía Blanca floods

10-03-2025 17:44 Locals have been shaken by the uncertain fate of two little girls – aged one and five – who appear to have been swept away in flash flooding.

NATURAL DISASTER

Argentina declares national mourning as flood death toll hits 16

10-03-2025 11:47 President Javier Milei announces three days of national mourning and authorises 10 billion in emergency reconstruction aid after destructive flood leaves 16 dead, including two young sisters.

FLOODING & TORRENTIAL RAIN

Bahía Blanca 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm, 13 dead

09-03-2025 09:43 "We have to rebuild a city," a top official of Buenos Aires province said Saturday, after torrential rains and flooding claimed at least 13 lives in Bahía Blanca.

FLOODING & TORRENTIAL RAIN

Ten dead, hundreds evacuated in Bahía Blanca floods

08-03-2025 09:11 Ten people left dead and hundreds evacuated in the port city of Bahía Blanca after torrential rainstorms flooded homes and hospitals, destroying roads and forced authorities to cut the power.

POWERFUL STORMS

13 dead in Bahía Blanca after sportsclub roof collapses in storm

17-12-2023 09:23 Storms with heavy rain and winds of up to 140km per hour hits Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; At least 13 killed when roof of a sportsclub in Bahía Blanca collapses on top of victims.