News of province

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 exonerated of all charges by the end of the trial.

POLITICS & COURTS

Supreme Ct declares Insfrán’s indefinite re-election in Formosa unconstitutional

19-12-2024 19:02 The top tribunal unanimously ruled against unlimited re-election, blocking plans by Peronist governor to extend his term in power past 30-year mark.

AVIATION ACCIDENT

Two killed as private jet overshoots runway in San Fernando

18-12-2024 15:22 Tragic accident in Buenos Aires Province; Private jet misses runaway and crashes into houses near small airport of San Fernando. Two pilots aboard the aircraft perished in tragedy.

POLITICS

Entre Ríos senator detained in Paraguay with US$200,000 in cash

04-12-2024 16:23 Senator for Entre Ríos Province Edgardo Kueider arrested on Paraguayan border carrying US$200,000 and 600,000 pesos in cash; Arrest of Peronist lawmaker, who has distanced himself from Kirchnerism and backed Javier Milei’s government in key votes, confirmed by Paraguayan authorities.

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Narco-terrorists’ make death threats against security minister, governor

02-12-2024 16:18 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich vows to clamp down on “narco-terrorists” after threats against her and Santa Fe Province Governor Maximilaino Pullaro in video.

Tragedy in Villa Gesell

One dead, several missing as hotel collapses in Villa Gesell

29-10-2024 18:11 Elderly man killed after a 10-storey building housing a hotel in the seaside resort of Villa Gesell collapses; Rescue workers still scrambling to find between seven and nine people who remain missing.

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.

DEBT WOES

La Rioja creditors win US$40 million in NY court over bond spat

12-09-2024 16:29 US judge orders La Rioja Province to pay creditors nearly US$40 million in damages.

FEATURE

‘Los chachos’: La Rioja launches currency to offset Milei’s shock therapy

03-09-2024 15:48 The remote province of La Rioja has created its own currency, the chacho, as an alternative to the peso to try to revive its moribund economy.

SOCIETY

Incarcerated reap benefits of in-prison university education scheme

31-08-2024 06:08 University education programmes in prisons deliver inmates a brighter future and help reduce recidivism. Journalist Jesús Cabral is just one who has reaped the rewards of the innovative CUSAM in-prison education project. “I’ve had many moments of crisis since I got out, but I haven’t reofferend,” he explains.

by Josefina Salomon

OIL & GAS

YPF chooses Río Negro, not Buenos Aires Province, for new LNG plant

31-07-2024 17:46 Bahía Blanca was one of the areas being considered to house the ambitious project which will require between US$30 billion and US$50 billion; Decision is a major blow for nation's most populous region.

CRYPTOCURRENCY PROJECT

Buenos Aires Province imposes sanction on Worldcoin

26-07-2024 17:42 Buenos Aires Province authorities have fined the company founded by Sam Altman, co-creator of ChatGPT. They aim at the lack of protection of sensitive biometric data.

LITHIUM IN LATIN AMERICA

New lithium plant inaugurated in Salta Province

03-07-2024 22:41 French mining group Eramet and its Chinese partner Tsingshan inaugurate new lithium exploitation plant, an investment worth US$870 million.

COURTS

Ex-Tucumán governor handed 16 years for rape, sexual assault

18-06-2024 22:40 Former provincial governor and senator sentenced to 16 years and lifetime ban from holding political office; Found guilty of rape and sexual abuse of his ex-aide, a distant relative who worked for him as an advisor between 2017 and 2018.

MINING

Mendoza makes a play for copper in Argentina mining revival

31-05-2024 11:50 Mendoza Province is moving to spur exploration of its copper deposits long shunned by prospectors due to restrictions and red tape.

Bloomberg

Bondholders in Buenos Aires Province question Milei’s resolve

28-05-2024 14:46 Bondholders in Buenos Aires Province are speculating that even Javier Milei isn’t ruthless enough to let the nation’s richest region go bankrupt.

MINING & INDUSTRY

Copper frenzy draws mining giants to Argentina after Milei’s reforms

23-05-2024 00:01 Milei government tries to lure global mining heavyweights; President must convince companies that their projects are safe and lay down rules for doing business.

SOCIAL UNREST

Police in Misiones take to streets as pay protest intensifies

20-05-2024 13:16 Active and retired police officers in Misiones Province stage street demonstrations in demand of better pay.

CRIME & SECURITY

Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial

01-05-2024 10:26 Former partner César Sena, his parents Emiliano Sena and Marcela Acuña, and four assistants of powerful local picket-leader, look set to face trial by jury.

PRODUCTION & INDUSTRY

Industry on the ropes: Tough times for factories as consumers cut back

24-04-2024 17:24 Factories are on the ropes between adjustment and recession in Argentina. Representatives of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs, or PyMES) warn drop in consumption is threatening the future of industry.

BLOOMBERG

Real-estate mogul eyes ‘city-towns’ from Patagonia to Paraguay

12-04-2024 10:33 Eduardo Costantini, Argentine real-estate mogul who popularised gated community concept, plans to spend up to US$1.5 billion developing more in new areas.

Provincial debt

La Rioja Province creditors gear up for battle on missed bond payment

09-04-2024 16:47 Creditors of Argentina’s La Rioja Province tapped advisers ahead of potential debt talks as they quibble with officials over more than US$16 million in bond payments.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Kicillof announces wage increase for state workers

18-03-2024 15:11 Salaries of state teachers, police officers and public employees will rise by 13.5% this month, orders Buenos Aires Province Axel Kicillof, in defiance of President Javeir Milei’s cost-cutting plans.

CRIME & INSECURITY

Rosario is always near

16-03-2024 06:25 As with so many other matters, Argentina’s leaders have not lived up to the challenge of efficiently combatting drug-trafficking. Yet it would be a mistake to confine the responsibility for Rosario’s bloody violence to politics.

by Javier Calvo

Lithium in Argentina

Lithium permit freeze limited to new projects, says Catamarca

15-03-2024 14:10 Catamarca Province says court ruling to halt the awarding of lithium permits only affects new projects, leaving other firms free to continue producing the metal.

CRIME & SECURITY

Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario

11-03-2024 12:53 Santa Fe Province Governor Maximiliano Pullaro is angering narco bosses with his Bukele-style approach to tackling drug violence in dangerous Rosario.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Kicillof pushes the accelerator

09-03-2024 06:47 The racetrack metaphor employed by Axel Kicillof to reject Javier Milei’s invitation to his Pacto del 25 de Mayo would seem in line with the acceleration he has decided to give his positioning as an opposition leader.

by Javier Calvo

POLITICS

Bullrich divides PRO as she backs Milei in Chubut funding row

27-02-2024 16:49 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich intervenes forcefully in the spat between President Javier Milei and Chubut's PRO Governor Ignacio Torres.

Bonds

La Rioja Province hires advisers as it struggles to pay bonds

27-02-2024 11:40 La Rioja Province hires advisers to negotiate with bondholders in face of “unprecedented economic challenges."

POVERTY

More hunger, less money: Soup kitchens count rations

15-02-2024 00:33 At community meal centres across Argentina, a dual crisis is biting: the influx of ever more hungry mouths to feed during an economic crisis, and a decision by President Javier Milei's new government to freeze their aid.

CRIME & SECURITY

Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times

12-02-2024 11:21 Mother-of-four María Belén Muñoz, 33, stabbed 24 times by partner in brutal killing; Accused Alejandro Albornoz, 34, has confessed to crime. He had been denounced for domestic violence by his own mother.

OIL & GAS

State energy firm YPF out of Milei’s privatisation crosshairs

19-01-2024 19:26 State-owned oil firm will not be privatised by Javier Milei’s government, after his party reached an agreement with opposed lawmakers to smooth overall passage of Omnibus bill.

Lithium in Argentina

India signs lithium mining deal with Argentina

16-01-2024 07:49 Indian state firm signs lithium mining deal with Catamarca Province; Five-block deal agreed between Khanij Bidesh India and Argentina's state-owned Camyen SE.

Wildlife

Illegal fishing slaughter: 138 penguins wash up dead off Argentina’s coast

17-12-2023 17:00 Heartbreaking image shared by local authorities in Santa Cruz Province shows a large group of deceased penguins killed by illegal fishing in the protected area of Puerto San Julián.

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.

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

'Yachtgate' scandal

Almost US$600,000 seized by police from Sofía Clerici’s home

24-10-2023 16:51 US$569,700 confiscated by Federal Police from the home of model Sofía Clerici at the upmarket neighbourhood of Nordelta in the framework of the money-laundering and embezzlement case.

ELECTIONS 2023 – ANALYSIS

National map: Where Massa recovered the presidential race

23-10-2023 10:54 Argentina’s provincial map now looks significantly different to purple-dominated results of primaries; Massa managed to record comeback wins in 8 provinces to rise to 13 overall, compared to Milei’s 10, down from 16 in the PASOs.

Election 2023: BUENOS AIRES CITY

Jorge Macri wins big City mayoral race but will face run-off

23-10-2023 04:41 Juntos por el Cambio close to retaining control in its stronghold; Jorge Macri almost wins in first round but will now face run-off against Leandro Santoro; Opposition also wins in Entre Ríos Province, but Catamarca will remain Peronist.

by James Grainger

Election 2023: Buenos Aires Province

Kicillof wins re-election for Peronism in Buenos Aires Province

22-10-2023 22:09 Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof brushes off Martín Insaurralde scandal to easily win re-election; Rounding off disappointing night for Juntos por el Cambio, Néstor Grindetti scrapes to second, just seeing off libertarian challenge from Carolina Píparo.

ELECTIONS 2023: PREVIEW

Election 2023: Not just a presidential vote

21-10-2023 05:57 No less than 18 of the 23 provinces have already voted with Corrientes and Santiago del Estero not renewing their governors until 2025. But the few remaining contests are far from minor – almost half the national electorate (or 48.39 percent, to be exact) between Buenos Aires City and Province, Catamarca and Entre Ríos.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2023

Milei closes campaign ahead of 'most important vote in last 100 years'

19-10-2023 01:09 Libertarian presidential frontrunner closes campaign with rally at Movistar Arena; Milei declares Sunday's vote to be "the most important elections in the last 100 years."

ELECTION 2023

Massa closes campaign with declaration that crisis ‘is passing’

17-10-2023 21:51 Economy minister and ruling coalition presidential candidate leads Peronist Loyalty Day ceremony as he closes campaign for Casa Rosada; Sergio Massa declares worst of crisis is passing and says nation is being revitalised from "Buenos Aires, to the north of Argentina and Patagonia."

Election 2023

Airing the dirty laundry of Argentina’s political caste

13-10-2023 11:27 As we get closer to the general election there could be a few more surprises of the smear campaign machine, so hold onto your hats.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Bloomberg

Billionaire Paolo Rocca has a Plan B for lithium if alpha bid fails

11-10-2023 08:10 Billionaire Paolo Rocca’s oil drilling unit will enter the lithium business one way or another.

EDITORIAL

Of dirty money and ‘dirty wars’

07-10-2023 06:40 With corruption being rubbed in its face by Insaurralde’s Marbella yacht jaunt and with the ballot-box in only a fortnight’s time as a readymade outlet, how will the citizenry react?

'Yachtgate' scandal

Insaurralde: Have lords of gambling lost their provincial ‘croupier’?

07-10-2023 06:18 Martín Insaurralde’s exit as Cabinet chief in Buenos Aires Province has also created a vacuum in the world of the unwritten rules of the gambling business.

ELECTION 2023

Grindetti seeks 90 municipalities in battle for Buenos Aires Province

05-10-2023 16:37 Juntos por el Cambio’s candidate to be next governor of Buenos Aires Province explores a new strategy to try to defeat Axel Kicillof.

by Ezequiel Spillman

CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

Top Buenos Aires Province official resigns amid luxury trip scandal

02-10-2023 15:48 Buenos Aires Province Cabinet Chief Martín Insaurralde, running for councillor in Lomas de Zamora in October elections, resigns post and candidacy in scandal; Kirchnerite leader's girlfriend Sofía Clérici posts images from luxury trip online, prompting corruption allegations and criminal complaints.

News of province

Unprecedented infanticide trial into newborn deaths begins

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

Supreme Ct declares Insfrán’s indefinite re-election in Formosa unconstitutional

Two killed as private jet overshoots runway in San Fernando

Entre Ríos senator detained in Paraguay with US$200,000 in cash

‘Narco-terrorists’ make death threats against security minister, governor

One dead, several missing as hotel collapses in Villa Gesell

Wildfires continue to ravage Córdoba as Milei spreads fake news

La Rioja creditors win US$40 million in NY court over bond spat

‘Los chachos’: La Rioja launches currency to offset Milei’s shock therapy

Incarcerated reap benefits of in-prison university education scheme

YPF chooses Río Negro, not Buenos Aires Province, for new LNG plant

Buenos Aires Province imposes sanction on Worldcoin

New lithium plant inaugurated in Salta Province

Ex-Tucumán governor handed 16 years for rape, sexual assault

Mendoza makes a play for copper in Argentina mining revival

Bondholders in Buenos Aires Province question Milei’s resolve

Copper frenzy draws mining giants to Argentina after Milei’s reforms

Police in Misiones take to streets as pay protest intensifies

Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial

Industry on the ropes: Tough times for factories as consumers cut back

Real-estate mogul eyes ‘city-towns’ from Patagonia to Paraguay

La Rioja Province creditors gear up for battle on missed bond payment

Kicillof announces wage increase for state workers

Rosario is always near

Lithium permit freeze limited to new projects, says Catamarca

Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario

Kicillof pushes the accelerator

Bullrich divides PRO as she backs Milei in Chubut funding row

La Rioja Province hires advisers as it struggles to pay bonds

More hunger, less money: Soup kitchens count rations

Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times

State energy firm YPF out of Milei’s privatisation crosshairs

India signs lithium mining deal with Argentina

Illegal fishing slaughter: 138 penguins wash up dead off Argentina’s coast

13 dead in Bahía Blanca after sportsclub roof collapses in storm

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

Almost US$600,000 seized by police from Sofía Clerici’s home

National map: Where Massa recovered the presidential race

Jorge Macri wins big City mayoral race but will face run-off

Kicillof wins re-election for Peronism in Buenos Aires Province

Election 2023: Not just a presidential vote

Milei closes campaign ahead of 'most important vote in last 100 years'

Massa closes campaign with declaration that crisis ‘is passing’

Airing the dirty laundry of Argentina’s political caste

Billionaire Paolo Rocca has a Plan B for lithium if alpha bid fails

Of dirty money and ‘dirty wars’

Insaurralde: Have lords of gambling lost their provincial ‘croupier’?

Grindetti seeks 90 municipalities in battle for Buenos Aires Province

Top Buenos Aires Province official resigns amid luxury trip scandal

UK extends travel entry scheme to non-EU countries

Venezuela on tenterhooks ahead of rival protests, Maduro swearing-in

Despite ‘no pauta’ rule, Milei finds other ways to reward or punish the media

New generation of musicians from Argentina make their mark

Stubbornly resilient lithium supply remains hurdle to recovery

Juicio por la muerte de bebés en el Neonatal: "No tengo dudas de que acá hubo una mano asesina"

La temporada bonaerense arrancó con 75% de ocupación y un destino sorprende con 100% de reservas

Las amenazas de Trump a Panamá y Groenlandia anticipan un mandato desenfrenado

Los candidatos peronistas superan el 60% de rechazo y Javier Milei alcanza el 50,4% de imagen positiva: "Un loco que da esperanza"

Javier Milei negó que haya atraso cambiario y reveló cuáles son los impuestos que va a eliminar