News of buenos aires

The year of the lion

07-12-2024 06:17 Milei’s first year in office has seen much more grey than its inflamed and somewhat arbitrary crusade against the “caste” of drab democratic politics would care to admit.

As I see it

The return of the great disruptor

07-12-2024 06:07 Caught off-balance, progressives in the United States and movers and shakers in Latin America, Europe, East Asia, the Middle East and Africa are asking themselves what the return of the great disruptor could mean.

by James Neilson

CRIME IN THE CAPITAL

Robberies on the rise in Buenos Aires City, data shows

03-12-2024 15:12 What crimes are on the rise in the City of Buenos Aires? ‘Motochorro’ motorcycle petty theft and home robberies are increasing, with Palermo the most targeted part of the capital.

SPORT & CULTURE

'Diego Eterno' – New multimedia exhibition pays tribute to Maradona

03-12-2024 10:08 New multimedia exhibition 'Diego eterno,' which opened in Buenos Aires this week honours Diego Maradona's life with an immersive hologram experience, the player's memorabilia, and recreations of pivotal moments in his career.

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.

As I see it

The invasion is about to begin

30-11-2024 05:46 Putting up protectionist barriers can be wonderfully easy, but pulling them down is anything but.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Home away from Rome

30-11-2024 05:06 Returning Argentina to the world is not a straight or single line like any flight abroad – nor for that matter like domestic economic policy.

TRANSPORT SWITCH

City government expands payment options for Subte metro service

29-11-2024 15:27 Buenos Aires City government announces multi-payment system for that Subte underground and Pre-metro rail services, allowing users to pay fares with mobile phones, debit and credit cards.

POLITICS

Rodríguez Larreta asks Milei to tone down rhetoric, stop ‘hate messages’

27-11-2024 11:59 Former City mayor tells President: "You were elected to govern, not share hate messages"; Report highlights “violent speech,” describing it as threat to democratic coexistence.

FRENCH PRESIDENT IN BUENOS AIRES

Macron defends French farmers during talks with Milei

18-11-2024 10:30 French President Emmanuel Macron defends his nation's resistance to the proposed EU-Mercosur trade deal as he visits President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.

FILM & CINEMA

Powerful documentary highlights Armenian resilience, struggle

16-11-2024 22:44 Through animation and archival storytelling, Inna Sahakyan’s 'Aurora’s Sunrise' honours a tragic past while drawing urgent parallels to Armenia’s ongoing battle for recognition and survival in a shifting geopolitical landscape.

by Sam Yockey

As I see it

Milei books a seat on the Trump express

16-11-2024 05:52 Though Milei expects Trump to lend him a helping hand on the financial front, he must be worried by his determination to surround the US with sky-high protectionist walls.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

A not so decisive decision

16-11-2024 05:52 This week’s court ruling seems to have done nothing to derail the widespread expectation of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner running in next year’s midterms as the focal opposition leader.

As I see it

Post-electoral Democrat blues

09-11-2024 07:36 If Democrats were wise, they would understand that it was due to their incompetence, combined with highhandedness, that Trump came roaring back.

by James Neilson

Editorial

Trump card, or joker?

09-11-2024 06:06 Milei is entitled to celebrate the convincing Republican win as a supreme booster for a global trend towards the far right but would be rather less accurate if he hailed it as an advance of his libertarian crusade against the deep state.

TRAGEDY IN PALERMO

Police charge trio in connection with Liam Payne’s death

07-11-2024 19:24 Three people charged with supplying British musician with drugs, one with abandoning a person in a vulnerable state who later died. One Direction star consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death last month at a hotel in Buenos Aires, prosecutors reveal.

NOCHE DE LOS MUSEOS

Buenos Aires celebrates cultural offerings with 'Night of the Museums'

07-11-2024 02:27 Highly anticipated 20th edition of 'La Noche de los Museos' ("Night of the Museums") returns this weekend. Annual event opens the doors to museums, cultural institutions, and iconic buildings across the city.

by Mattis Nurit

DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE

Liam Payne's body repatriated to UK from Argentina

06-11-2024 17:52 Liam Payne's body has been released by authorities in Buenos Aires and is on the way to the airport for repatriation; Large funeral in late singer’s hometown expected.

LOCAL REACTION

Argentina’s right celebrates Trump’s victory in US election

06-11-2024 15:39 Figures from Mauricio Macri’s PRO party celebrate Republican leader’s win in US presidential election as Milei government officials revel in news.

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

BP venture eyes investment to make green jet fuel in Argentina

06-11-2024 11:40 The Pan American Energy Group is mulling an investment to make clean jet fuel at its refinery outside Buenos Aires.

DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE

Report: Liam Payne's body to be repatriated this week

05-11-2024 22:30 Liam Payne's family expect hisbody to be released by authorities in Buenos Aires and repatriated this week; Large funeral in late singer’s hometown expected.

As I see it

Fear and loathing in the US

02-11-2024 06:42 About the only thing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agree upon is that, unless one of them wins, democracy will die in the United States.

by James Neilson

Homage to football legend

Maradona's children unveil memorial site, foundation plans

01-11-2024 09:03 The 'M10 Memorial' is scheduled to open in 2025 in the tourist area of Puerto Madero, a few blocks from the Casa Rosada, and will be able to welcome one million visitors a year.

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.

As I see it

A most unappetising choice

26-10-2024 05:32 The choice, then, is between a blustering egotist and an almost comically vacuous lady.

by James Neilson

Editorial

A totalitarian all or a nihilistic nothing

26-10-2024 05:27 While verbally aspiring to ending Kirchnerism, Milei is doing much to revive it with his modus operandi.

EDITORIAL

Obscurity obstructs security

19-10-2024 06:46 Both Peronism and the business world are undergoing a transitional phase.

As I see it

Milei and the uses of fanaticism

19-10-2024 06:23 Javier Milei’s reputation, and with it his ability to rule, depends on his willingness to stick to his fiscal guns, come what may.

by James Neilson

DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE

Tributes pour in for Liam Payne after tragic death in Palermo

17-10-2024 21:47 One Direction members say they’re 'completely devastated' by loss of bandmate as fans gather to remember late pop star; British singer fell to his death from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Palermo on Wednesday night; Investigators rule out foul play as preliminary autopsy results emerge.

DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE

One Direction 'completely devastated' by loss of bandmate

17-10-2024 19:16 "We're completely devastated by the news of Liam's passing, and when everyone is able to, there will be more to say," say One Direction bandmates in a statement.

DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE

Local media leak images of Liam Payne's hotel room in Argentina

17-10-2024 10:26 Upon the artist’s demise, images of the hotel where he was staying were shared online almost immediately. Details also emerge of calls to emergency services before tragedy in Palermo.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY

British pop star found dead at Buenos Aires hotel

16-10-2024 18:27 Thirty-one-year-old singer reportedly fell from the third floor of a hotel in the Palmero neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires City

‘English clock-tower’ of Buenos Aires reopens to the public

16-10-2024 11:55 The Torre Monumental in Retiro, formerly known as the Torre de los Ingleses, reopens its doors – and its panoramic views – to the public after internal remodelling.

by By Claudio Corsalini

As I see it

There are no easy answers in education

12-10-2024 06:59 Living as we do in an egalitarian age, many educationalists are reluctant to take into account another unfortunate fact: people have different talents

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

The ‘Gol olímpico’

Neighbourhood remembers first ‘Olympic goal’ in football history

10-10-2024 06:10 At a low-income barrio in Barracas, a group gathered to remember football history last weekend: the eponymous ‘Gol olímpico’ (a goal scored direct from a corner) by Cesáreo Onzari in a match between Argentina and Uruguay a century ago.

by Claudio Gómez

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Buenos Aires City reports September inflation rate of 4%

08-10-2024 06:38 There was a slight slowdown from 4.2 percent in August.

COPA LIBERTADORES

River's Monumental stadium to host Copa Libertadores 2024 final

05-10-2024 09:02 Iconic stadium in Buenos Aires selected as venue for Copa Libertadores final, the region's most important club football competition.

EDITORIAL

It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Poverty lies under the mattress

05-10-2024 06:06 Idle capital amounting to over half of Gross Domestic Product surely goes a long way towards explaining why over half the population is poor.

by Michael Soltys

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Nearly one million people are poor or destitute in Buenos Aires

04-10-2024 11:07 City Hall statistics bureau reveals that there are 159,000 more poor people than one year ago.

Marcha federal universitaria

University students, staff, supporters march to challenge austerity

02-10-2024 14:43 Mass demonstration this Wednesday to demand improved budgets for higher education institutions.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Milei promises good times lie ahead at La Libertad Avanza launch rally

29-09-2024 20:18 La Libertad Avanza stages rally in Parque Lezama launching itself as a nationwide party; Karina Milei delivers speech before President Javier Milei assures supporters that "only good news" lies ahead.

EDITORIAL

The Wall Street shuffle

28-09-2024 06:27 Milei doubtless imagined that he was ringing his own Liberty Bell but it was also a self-excommunication from the international community which might well send alarm-bells ringing, not least among Wall Street investors.

As I see it

The UN gets the Milei treatment

28-09-2024 06:22 Hypocrisy is the glue that holds the UN together. It would fall apart if the democratic members began demanding the immediate expulsion of countries whose regimes refuse to observe the rules they pledged themselves to respect.

by James Neilson

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

28-09-2024 06:05 The Unión Cívica Radical crisis perhaps stems from standing or falling from being the men in the middle in many senses – representing a middle class facing extinction and a middle ground squeezed out by polarisation.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Israel’s terrible swift sword

21-09-2024 06:20 Israel not only tore apart Hezbollah’s communications’ network and undermined its morale, but also scored a major propaganda triumph. For a small country whose very survival depends entirely on its military prowess, this is a matter of literally vital importance.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Painting without numbers

21-09-2024 00:36 Milei’s maximalist stance last Sunday might have experience in mind: the logic of only obtaining half of the requested still being a substantial gain.

POLITICS, COURTS & ECONOMY

National, City government agrees federal revenue-sharing deal

19-09-2024 00:27 After lengthy court battle over ‘coparticipación’ federal revenue-sharing funds, President Javier Milei’s government and City Hall agrees deal to deliver 2.95 percent in daily and weekly payments.