News of tragedy

Ex-military chiefs sanctioned over 2017 sinking of ARA San Juan

22-03-2021 22:38 Retired admiral Marcelo Srur was handed "45 days of arrest" for giving "incomplete" picture to Defence Ministry; ex-sub commander Claudio Villamide dismissed for "lack of care and neglect."

COURTS

Court confirms De Vido’s sentence for role in Once rail crash

23-12-2020 19:15 Fifty-one people, among them a pregnant woman, were killed and nearly 800 injured when a passenger train plummeted into the Once railway terminal during peak hour in Buenos Aires’ Balvanera neighbourhood on February 22, 2012.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Court orders ex-planning minister Julio de Vido's release

05-03-2020 14:11 Court orders veteran Veteran Kirchnerite official and ex-federal planning minister's release, saying he has been "detained for a period longer than the maximum legal term of two years."

Chilean Plane Crash

Chilean plane that vanished en route to Antarctica found

12-12-2019 23:13 Chile's Defense Minister Alberto Espina said human remains have been found from a military aircraft that disappeared on a flight to Antarctica.The plane was carrying 38 passengers when it took off from southernmost Chile on Monday

SUBMARINE TRAGEDY

Two years on, the working theory behind the sinking of ARA San Juan

15-11-2019 14:17 A fault in the E19 valve is the strongest hypothesis for the submarine’s sinking. The Argentine Navy will hold a remembrance event for the vessel's fallen crew-members this afternoon.

San Juan

First charges in ARA San Juan case confound relatives of missing crew

17-10-2019 15:43 Three Navy officials will testify in court next week before Federal Judge Marta Yáñez, though their alleged crimes have not been made public, nor were relatives of the victims notified beforehand.

ARA SAN JUAN

Navy brass, low budget blamed for ARA San Juan submarine tragedy

19-07-2019 10:29 Commission concludes sinking of submarine with all 44 crew-members onboard, in November 2017, caused by the inefficiency of naval commanders and budget limitations.

IN PILAR

Parents return from night out to find five children dead in house fire

08-07-2019 10:01 Five children aged four to 15 die inside a burning home on Sunday in Pilar on the far outskirts of Greater Buenos Aires.

Football

Man arrested in connection with death of Emiliano Sala

21-06-2019 08:35 Sala's body was recovered from the wreckage two weeks after the single-engine aircraft he was travelling on crashed in the English Channel.