News of cordoba

Almost 300-year-old tree moved to make way for road widening

10-07-2025 00:11 Environmentalists fear ancient quebracho tree in Villa Allende, near Córdoba, will not survive transplant operation ordered by municipal government to allow road expansion.

DEBT & BONDS

Córdoba Province sells US$725 million of debt abroad

27-06-2025 13:51 Cordoba Province taps investors in the first international debt sale by a local government since President Javier Milei took office.

Horror in Córdoba

Córdoba nurse given life sentence for murder of five newborn babies

19-06-2025 16:16 Nurse Brenda Agüero, 29, sentenced to life in prison; Jury deliberated for 10 hours before handing down verdict; Ex-provincial minister Diego Cardozo acquitted and former hospital director Liliana Asís sentenced to five years in prison.

EDUCATION

Literacy crisis: Less than half of kids under nine meet reading standards

07-05-2025 11:00 Argentina’s Education Secretariat publishes first results from Aprender assessment under Milei administration. Provinces of Formosa and Córdoba achieved strongest results, Chaco at bottom of ranking.

ENERGY & GAS

Governors seek Vaca Muerta investments at Texas energy summit

23-04-2025 11:12 Leaders from four provinces in Argentina – Río Negro, Neuquén, Mendoza and Córdoba – aim to showcase their competitiveness to the global oil elite in Texas at the Offshore Technology Conference.

by Eugenia Muzio

NEW DEBT ISSUANCE

Provinces eye debt sales as economic optimism mounts

19-02-2025 15:30 Buenos Aires City— which oversaw a failed debt tender offer toward the end of 2024 — and Córdoba Province are each mulling the sale of around US$500 million of bonds between March and May

CÓRDOBA NEWSBORNS TRIAL

Mothers of dead Córdoba newborns learnt of suspicions via press

22-01-2025 13:50 Testimony during first two weeks of court proceedings reveals that mothers of newborns allegedly killed by nurse at Córdoba hospital first found out about suspicions via the media.

Córdoba newborn deaths

Nurse denies killings as trial into death of five newborns begins

10-01-2025 09:50 Prime suspect is 30-year-old nurse Brenda Agüero, accused of infanticide; Ex-provincial health minister, former hospital directors and healthcare professionals also facing trial.

COURTS

Unprecedented infanticide trial into newborn deaths begins

07-01-2025 11:10 Unprecedented trial sees 11 defendants facing trial by jury for the deaths of five infants at Córdoba neonatal hospital in 2022; Unlike similar cases of attacks on newborn babies reported in the United States, England and Mexico where only nurses are on trial, the case extends to 10 officials.

by María Ester Romero

COURTS

Lawyer for nurse accused of killing newborns predicts she will be cleared

07-01-2025 10:21 Slamming prosecutors, lawyer for nurse accused of killing five newborn babies predicts his client will be acquitted of all charges by the end of the trial.

NEONATAL DEATHS IN CÓRDOBA

Trial into death of five newborns at Córdoba hospital gets underway

06-01-2025 09:05 Eleven defendants in dock for deaths of five children at the Hospital Materno Neonatal in Córdoba; Former nurse Brenda Agüero, responsible for vaccinating the newborns, stands accused of poisoning babies with potassium.

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE

Wildfires continue to ravage Córdoba as Milei spreads fake news

26-09-2024 15:57 Firefighters are seeking to contain wildfires that have set ablaze at least 70,000 hectares. President Milei, fresh from his trip to New York, travels to the region to survey damage – and then spreads fake news about the event on social media.

Environment & Wildlife

Forest fires in Córdoba worsen, prompting evacuation of residents

20-09-2024 15:37 Forest fires in the province of Córdoba worsened Friday as two large outbreaks forced the pre-emptive evacuation of local residents.

ENVIRONMENT

Firefighters battle flames in Córdoba, 7,000 hectares affected

03-09-2024 15:06 Planes, helicopters and more than 200 firefighters have been deployed to quench the blaze, which started in the Calamuchita Valley, local authorities said Tuesday.

POLITICS

Milei proclaims ‘change of era’ in Córdoba speech marking national holiday

26-05-2024 10:16 President Milei heads to Córdoba to mark his first 25 de Mayo anniversary as head of state; Head of state praises ‘rock star’ Luis Caputo in speech following event in Buenos Aires, announces new ‘May Council’ and vows tax cuts.

POLITICS

‘Gran Fiesta Patria’ – Milei heads to Córdoba without his ‘Pacto de Mayo’

21-05-2024 21:12 Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni and Córdoba provincial government confirms Governor Martín Llaryora has made “everything necessary” available for head of state – but Javier Milei will not be inking his proposed ‘Pacto de 25 de Mayo’ on Saturday.

by Juan Bernaus

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Juan Grabois: ‘A disruption evidently captivated most Argentines’

23-12-2023 06:46 Lawyer, social leader and former presidential candidate Juan Grabois on Javier Milei, the government’s economic emergency measures and receiving criticism from both sides.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023

Argentina’s heartland shows quandary of election choice few want

17-11-2023 07:24 Argentina’s electoral dilemma is arguably felt most acutely in Cordoba, where 1.2 million voters opted for neither of the candidates in the run-off — the highest percentage of any district in the country.

VOTING & DEMOCRACY

104-year-old grandmother wins court battle to protect her vote

07-11-2023 16:00 Berazategui grandmother Fanny Magdalena Córdoba, has voted in every election since 1951, when women first won suffrage in Argentina. Blocked in this year's elections from casting a ballot due to her age, she went to court to ensure she retained her democratic right to vote.

by Ariel Stemphelet

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE

Residents evacuated in Córdoba as raging fire destroys homes

11-10-2023 14:26 At least 30 people evacuated between Monday night and Tuesday morning as fierce fires raged close to cities in Córdoba.

ELECTION 2023

Bullrich suggests Schiaretti should drop his presidential candidacy

05-09-2023 14:15 Patricia Bullrich states that "it would be a good idea for Schiaretti not to be a candidate for president" and for his voters to "strategically" back her ticket instead.

LOOTING ATTACKS

Inflation or politics? Nation hit by wave of looting

24-08-2023 17:28 Since last Friday, groups of people, sometimes dozens at a time, have forced their way into supermarkets and other stores. But who's behind the unrest?

Unrest spreads

Almost 30 arrests amid looting outbreaks across Argentina

22-08-2023 15:55 Close to 30 people were arrested in Argentina over the weekend following looting at shops in the provinces of Cordoba and Mendoza.

ELECTIONS 2023

Chubut the latest upset in a semester full of strong Peronist defeats

31-07-2023 16:52 Fall of Peronism in Chubut Province marks a trend worrying Sergio Massa. The biggest surprises and open scenarios.

by Ramón Indart

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Of Mediterranean and other voting

28-07-2023 21:32 If Córdoba’s Peronist government delights in reviling its national comrades, Chubut holding its provincial elections tomorrow goes one better – there the Peronist gubernatorial candidate disowns his own governor despite the common loyalty of both men to Massa.

by Michael Soltys

PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS

Córdoba and Chubut elections: Unión por la Patria, Juntos por el Cambio battle it out

21-07-2023 14:25 Key contest between Peronism and Juntos por el Cambio (including their own primary) in the run-up to August 13 primaries. Crossed support in Córdoba and a ruling party crisis in Chubut.