News of buenos aires

Students square off with City Hall as school seizure movement grows

29-09-2022 20:19 No end in sight to tensions, with as many as 20 schools throughout Buenos Aires now occupied by student demonstrators; City education minister points finger at Kirchnerism and warns parents will pay for losses.

by Sam Forster

Strike hits airports in Buenos Aires as labour tensions rise

27-09-2022 16:10 Flights cancelled at Ezeiza and Aeroparque Jorge Newbery due to a trade union action: Measure promoted by ATE workers union affects destinations including San Luis, Formosa, Jujuy, Rosario, Bahía Blanca and Río Grande.

The end game nears for Putin

23-09-2022 13:16 By now, Putin must know that his “special military operation” has been a humiliating failure and that prolonging it would be almost certain to make things even worse for him.

by James Neilson

Neither magic nor realism

23-09-2022 13:00 The theatre of the absurd would seem to have found a home in Argentina. Yet amid all this surrealism there are real problems awaiting real solutions and until these arrive, there seem no limits as to what will fill the vacuum.

The King and I

16-09-2022 02:50 With seven decades of preparation, Charles knows his way around the world and its leaders and stands to be as professional as mother – green only in his environmental passions.

by Michael Soltys

Fake news and the real thing

10-09-2022 02:57 Just as the trial of the junta dictators served as a catalyst to unify a newly democratic society, so the shock of the assassination attempt could have been a golden opportunity to consign polarisation to the past.

by Michael Soltys

The lady’s not for learning

01-09-2022 09:00 This city’s autonomy abruptly ceased being a constitutional abstraction this week when it was challenged amid the flurry of curveballs being hurled by Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Peso crisis imperils coffee supplies in famed cafes of Argentina

30-08-2022 15:47 An escalating currency crisis is threatening a touchstone of Buenos Aires life: coffee.

Massa trails new policy announcements to business leaders, investors

19-08-2022 14:28 Economy minister delivers keynote speech at Council of the Americas summit in the capital; Social plans, public employment and other economic announcements are on the way, he tells US investors.

Biting (or braving) the bullet

19-08-2022 13:24 The renunciation of populist utility bill freezes should be hailed. The Frente de Todos government is at least knocking on the door of the real world even if it has yet to make an entrance.

‘The whole world is recognising our culture,’ says Don Julio owner

17-08-2022 16:41 Don Julio, Buenos Aires’ famed parrilla, has been named as one of the world’s Best 50 restaurants. Chef Pablo Rivero is the face of the family-run business renowned for its cuisine.

by Ernesto Ise

Credibility gap the widest of all

13-08-2022 06:52 Massa is widely assumed to model his ambitions on Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso but even subordinating all else to that goal does not automatically make his policies more predictable.

Argentina pledges end of money printing to battle 60% inflation

03-08-2022 22:32 New Economy Minister announces plan to slow down Argentina’s financial crisis hours after he was sworn in. Sergio Massa says he will stop money printing to slow inflation.

US seizes cargo plane sold from Iranian to Venezuelan airline

03-08-2022 15:46 Argentinian authorities seized the cargo plane in June on the request of the USA. The Iranian and Venezuelan crew members were kept in Buenos Aires to investigate potential links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Argentine protesters demand universal living wage

28-07-2022 18:17 Central Buenos Aires saw a crowd of demonstrators calling for a “universal salary” this Thursday as heads roll in cabinet reshuffle.

Argentina moves to hike key rate by 800bps with local note offer

28-07-2022 16:44 Argentina’s central bank offered its Leliq note, which is used as the benchmark interest rate, at a rate of 60%, representing an 800 basis-point increase and the largest hike in almost three years.

Grabois talks “blood on the streets”

25-07-2022 17:28 Picket leader warns of future looting while rival Raúl Castells tries it out in a Rosario supermarket.

Mossad information on AMIA and embassy bombing counters beliefs about perpetrators

25-07-2022 16:46 The Israeli intelligence service showed results of investigation to the New York Times: suspicions that Argentine and Iranian officials were involved have been disproved, generating controversy in Argentina because Iran appears to have been let off the hook.

Devil take the hindmost

15-07-2022 13:00 In an age in which it is assumed that just about everything must change with the times or be thrown on the scrap heap, people who are unable to keep up risk getting swept aside.

by James Neilson

Airline exodus sees Argentina lose connections to 18 cities worldwide

12-07-2022 16:40 Seventeen airlines have left Argentina over the past three years, according to a new report; In the first four months of 2022, there were 50% fewer international flights than in the same period of 2019.