News of buenos aires

InvestBA helps push Buenos Aires onto international stage

Yesterdat 09:47 City Hall’s investment and trade promotion agency, better known simply as investBA, was created less than half a decade ago – but the agency is already making a name for itself on the international stage.

by Sophia Moore-Smith

International Tango Festival

Local couples win top tango competition after Maradona tributes

26-09-2021 09:26 With main event hit by Covid-19 pandemic, competition's finals were staged in front of Buenos Aires' famed illuminated Obelisk.

EDITORIAL

Post-pandemic or a sign of panic?

25-09-2021 10:23 This premature optimism on Covid is clearly feelgood electioneering on the part of a government permanently on the prowl for the lost votes of a fortnight ago.

As I see it

Make way for the shantytown liberals

25-09-2021 00:01 Some commentators and politicians have been considering the intriguing possibility that people who live in the country’s squalid urban slums could be acquiring a taste for free-market capitalism.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me

Can Aníbal or (is he a) cannibal?

25-09-2021 00:01 Territorial imperative reigns supreme – at least until the November midterms when it stands or falls.

by Michael Soltys

SUPPORTERS ARE BACK

Football fans set to end 18-month Covid exile from stadiums

24-09-2021 21:47 After 18 long, quiet months, the moment has finally arrived: fans will flock back through stadium turnstiles from the start of October onwards.

by Dan Edwards

DIPLOMACY

New British ambassador begins mission in Argentina

23-09-2021 23:05 Kirsty Hayes, who replaces Mark Kent as London's envoy in Buenos Aires, presents diplomatic credentials at Palacio San Martín.

by James Grainger

Relaxation of Covid rules

Quirós: It’s not time for porteños to ‘remove their facemasks’

22-09-2021 15:52 City Hall set to join provinces of Río Negro, Salta, Jujuy, Mendoza and Córdoba in delaying national government’s move to end the wearing of facemasks while outdoors.

And that reminds me

D’(H)ont ask me

18-09-2021 00:01 The autistic power plays now underway are only likely to sustain voting anger against a dysfunctional coalition.

by Michael Soltys

opinion and analysis

Kirchnerites reaping the whirlwind

18-09-2021 00:01 For there to be any chance of the country emerging relatively unscathed from the mess Cristina, with the help of easily bamboozled voters, has got it into, Alberto would have to start behaving like a genuine president.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

The beginning of the end?

17-09-2021 22:07 The Frente de Todos coalition, with the vice-presidential tail wagging the presidential dog, has been a rare experiment premised on a united Peronism being big enough to contain its own historic contradictions by guaranteeing electoral victory and thus power. That myth was rudely shattered by last Sunday’s voting.

PASO PRIMARIES 2021

Frente de Todos seeks to turn around election in Buenos Aires Province

17-09-2021 14:03 Juntos por el Cambio finished ahead by more than four points in the key battleground province. The government will now go chasing the votes of Florencio Randazzo, Facundo Manes – as well as the ‘disappointed’ who didn’t turn out.

by Rosario Ayerdi

EDITORIAL

Prematurely Accelerating Serious Options

11-09-2021 15:25 All too many politicians have been trying to bring the 2023 presidential elections ahead to tomorrow, seeking to stampede voters into a premature “the people or the republic” polarisation and to nationalise the voting.

It’s PASO time!

Sloppy seconds

11-09-2021 09:54 The PASO primaries have laid bare the intellectual vacuity of Argentina’s political class.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

As I see it

Closing time in the gardens of the West

11-09-2021 09:48 Perhaps it is premature to talk, as the British essayist Cyril Connolly did soon after World War II, of “closing time in the gardens of the West,” but for many it does feel that something like that is taking place.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me…

Twenty years can be something

11-09-2021 09:35 Just as in the preceding generation everybody seemed to remember exactly what they were doing on the day of John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, so 9/11 has remained the object of universal recall in the last 20 years.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2021: PASO PRIMARIES

Pre-PASO polls boost opposition's hopes in Buenos Aires Province

06-09-2021 18:15 Less than a week before primaries, Diego Santilli is polling higher than neuroscientist Facundo Manes in Buenos Aires Province. Two surveys show that share of vote going to opposition in key battleground region outscores ruling coalition candidate Victoria Tolosa Paz.

ELECTIONS 2021: PASO PRIMARIES

Vidal tells porteños to reject ‘resignation’ and vote ‘to stop Kirchnerism’

06-09-2021 16:14 Former Buenos Aires Province governor, now running as a candidate for deputy, looks set to see off the challenge of former economy minister Ricardo López Murphy in a split opposition list in the federal capital.

COVID CHAOS

FIFA 'regrets' chaos at abandoned Brazil v Argentina match

06-09-2021 11:26 Sunday's match at São Paulo's Neo Quimica Arena on Sunday was halted when Brazilian health officials ran onto the pitch seven minutes after kick-off.

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Still currents run deep

04-09-2021 10:23 While the pundits quite rightly remind us that it would be rash to extrapolate local results onto the national arena, the fact that Gustavo Valdés virtually trebled the votes for his veteran Peronist rival should send alarm-bells among the ruling coalition.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Playtime for politicians

04-09-2021 10:18 In Argentina, politics has always had more to do with tribal feelings than with anything else.

by James Neilson

ELECTIONS 2021: PASO PRIMARIES

Uneasy marriages, hawks and doves, and violent ultraliberals

04-09-2021 10:15 Defeating the enemy, it seems, is the only thing keeping both coalitions together.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Bored to tears or bored to fears?

04-09-2021 10:00 Perhaps what Kirchnerism abhors most about Switzerland is not only the neutrality but also the centrality of that landlocked country bang in the middle of Europe – an aversion to the middle ground upon which it will depend so much in the next couple of months.

MARITIME TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

Diplomatic row between Argentina and Chile erupts over maritime borders

02-09-2021 23:00 Tensions between Argentina and Chile boil over, with the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires accusing Sebastián Piñera's administration of attempting to "expropriate" part of its maritime territory.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Francis scotches resignation talk, plans more foreign trips

01-09-2021 11:16 Argentine pontiff dismisses media reports that he might resign following surgery earlier this year, saying it "didn't even cross my mind."

DEBT SWAP DEAL

Buenos Aires Province scares creditors into accepting bond restructuring

31-08-2021 15:41 La Plata announced Monday that it had managed to restructure almost all its US$7.1 billion of defaulted debt, swapping it for new securities valued at just over 50 cents on the dollar. But some creditors say in practical terms they had no other choice than to accept the deal.

BLOOMBERG

Buenos Aires Province to restructure 98% of bonds in debt deal

30-08-2021 16:04 Deal caps Argentina’s most recent round of debt restructurings, after nearly every province reached deals with bondholders over the past 12 months and the national government restructured its own US$65 billion in securities a year ago.

ELECTIONS 2021

PASO Primaries: Round 1

27-08-2021 23:26 It will be a tough election for the pan-Peronist coalition in the Province of Buenos Aires.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

As I see it

When weakness is strength

27-08-2021 23:23 In politics, having an unprepossessing alternative at hand can be a big advantage.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Future tense or tense future?

27-08-2021 23:20 Calling either the PASO primaries or the November midterms this year is tantamount to a mission impossible.

by Michael Soltys

OBITUARY

Malcolm Hunter OBE, key figure in Argentina’s British community, dies at 91

27-08-2021 23:16 Ex-ABCC chief, business leader and charitable soul Malcom Hunter OBE has to go down as one of the most important leaders the British community in Argentina has ever had.

by Michael Soltys

EDITORIAL

Bullish about the economy, or just bull?

27-08-2021 21:24 Guzmán’s rosy indicators need to be seen against a backdrop of thousands of shuttered businesses, at least a quarter of a million permanent jobs lost and some three million people ejected from the middle class into poverty.

ECONOMY

The secrets of ITBA, the cradle of Argentina’s unicorns

27-08-2021 21:17 Luis Paolini directs Business Management at the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), teaching a select group of around 30 students with a priority on critical mentality.

by Lorena Rodríguez

Coronavirus pandemic

Vizzoti warns it is 'impossible to hold back' Delta strain

27-08-2021 21:12 Authorities in Buenos Aires Province confirm they have identified the first case of Delta variant contagion via community circulation in the region.

DIPLOMATIC OUTRAGE

Iran leader names another AMIA bombing suspect as official, angering Argentina

26-08-2021 23:37 Argentina expresses “strongest condemnation” of Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s decision to appoint Mohsen Rezaei, wanted by Interpol for 1994 AMIA terror attack, to his government. News comes just two weeks after Ahmad Vahidi was named interior minister.

DEBT RESTRUCTURING

Buenos Aires Province: Debt swap has 90% support from creditors

26-08-2021 13:37 La Plata says it has reached an agreement with 90% of creditors to restructure more than US$7 billion of foreign debt, paving the way for region to exit default after 16 months.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Parts of provinces of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos underwater by century’s end

25-08-2021 15:10 Sea levels are rising and Argentina will not be the only Latin American country to suffer the consequences.

by Darío Silva D'Andrea

Coronavirus pandemic

Delta case of community circulation detected in Buenos Aires Province

24-08-2021 19:18 Authorities in Buenos Aires Province identify first case of Delta variant contagion via community circulation in the region.

As I see it

A most humiliating retreat

21-08-2021 21:36 The United States handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban because years ago most of her political leaders, including Donald Trump and Joe Biden, had come to the conclusion that “nation-building” was utter folly.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Kabul capitulates

21-08-2021 21:34 All too much past and present for Afghanistan but what about the future? The fast forward to the past indicates that nothing is irreversible.

by Michael Soltys

EDITORIAL

A photo can be worth more than a thousand votes

21-08-2021 09:30 The Olivos scandal does not necessarily doom the government to midterm defeat – where it is absolutely irreversible is in the destruction of presidential authority.

PROTESTS

'Piquetazo': Groups march to demand aid amid rising poverty

18-08-2021 16:25 Left-wing groups and social organisations massive march through centre of Buenos Aires, calling for improved aid from the government to tackle rising poverty in Argentina.

Coronavirus pandemic

Lammens: Fans can return to stadiums 'in September or October'

18-08-2021 14:51 Sport & Tourism Minister Matías Lammens says "football with spectators will return in the medium term," likely September or October.

Coronavirus pandemic

Quiros: Delta variant 'very close' to community transmission

17-08-2021 16:32 Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós warned Tuesday that the Delta variant of Covid-19 "is very close" to entering into community transmission.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya to give testimony to Argentine court in push for Myanmar Army probe

17-08-2021 14:17 Rohingya refugees expelled from Myanmar in a bloody crackdown are to testify before Argentine court. They will use the principle of "universal jurisdiction" to urge a full judicial investigation into allegations of war crimes committed against them.

EDITORIAL

Is moderation in pursuit of justice no longer a virtue?

14-08-2021 07:34 Has our left-leaning government decided that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue?

And that reminds me...

Universities Breed Awareness

14-08-2021 07:30 Two centuries ago, UBA was inaugurated in San Ignacio Church next to what is today the Colegio Nacional, giving life to an edict dated August 9, 1821 issued by Buenos Aires Governor Martín Rodríguez – the university was thus pre-presidential.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Desperately looking for an exit

14-08-2021 07:27 Though representatives of both sides are only too happy to tell us how much they detest their adversaries, they show little interest in examining their own record.

by James Neilson

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court sentences duo to more than 20 years in jail for rape of prisoners at ESMA

13-08-2021 21:01 Two already convicted human rights offenders from the 1976-1983 military dictatorship receive additional sentences for sexual crimes committed at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School.

As I see it

Journey to an unknown destination

07-08-2021 11:31 If mere facts are anything to go by, Argentina is heading for yet another almighty crash.

by James Neilson

News of buenos aires

InvestBA helps push Buenos Aires onto international stage

Local couples win top tango competition after Maradona tributes

Post-pandemic or a sign of panic?

Make way for the shantytown liberals

Can Aníbal or (is he a) cannibal?

Football fans set to end 18-month Covid exile from stadiums

New British ambassador begins mission in Argentina

Quirós: It’s not time for porteños to ‘remove their facemasks’

D’(H)ont ask me

Kirchnerites reaping the whirlwind

The beginning of the end?

Frente de Todos seeks to turn around election in Buenos Aires Province

Prematurely Accelerating Serious Options

Sloppy seconds

Closing time in the gardens of the West

Twenty years can be something

Pre-PASO polls boost opposition's hopes in Buenos Aires Province

Vidal tells porteños to reject ‘resignation’ and vote ‘to stop Kirchnerism’

FIFA 'regrets' chaos at abandoned Brazil v Argentina match

Still currents run deep

Playtime for politicians

Uneasy marriages, hawks and doves, and violent ultraliberals

Bored to tears or bored to fears?

Diplomatic row between Argentina and Chile erupts over maritime borders

Pope Francis scotches resignation talk, plans more foreign trips

Buenos Aires Province scares creditors into accepting bond restructuring

Buenos Aires Province to restructure 98% of bonds in debt deal

PASO Primaries: Round 1

When weakness is strength

Future tense or tense future?

Malcolm Hunter OBE, key figure in Argentina’s British community, dies at 91

Bullish about the economy, or just bull?

The secrets of ITBA, the cradle of Argentina’s unicorns

​​Vizzoti warns it is 'impossible to hold back' Delta strain

Iran leader names another AMIA bombing suspect as official, angering Argentina

Buenos Aires Province: Debt swap has 90% support from creditors

Parts of provinces of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos underwater by century’s end

Delta case of community circulation detected in Buenos Aires Province

A most humiliating retreat

Kabul capitulates

A photo can be worth more than a thousand votes

'Piquetazo': Groups march to demand aid amid rising poverty

Lammens: Fans can return to stadiums 'in September or October'

Quiros: Delta variant 'very close' to community transmission

Rohingya to give testimony to Argentine court in push for Myanmar Army probe

Is moderation in pursuit of justice no longer a virtue?

Universities Breed Awareness

Desperately looking for an exit

Court sentences duo to more than 20 years in jail for rape of prisoners at ESMA

Journey to an unknown destination

Argentina accelerates money printing ahead of November elections

Messi chooses Guardiola reunion to get up and running with PSG

Zuccardi Valle de Uco ranked world's best winery for third straight year

Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, drought upends global markets

What we learned this week: September 18 to 25

El gobierno planea lanzar un IFE acotado para jóvenes y aumentar el salario mínimo del Potenciar Trabajo

Carolina Losada: "Lo apoyan a Perotti porque será el próximo caballo de Troya de Cristina"

El "se los dije" de Cristina Kirchner sobre Macri: "Era tu papá, eras vos y tu mamá también"

Cachanosky: “La crisis que viene se combina con la del Rodrigazo y la del Plan Primavera”

Se rearma la campaña de Santilli y Manes: el pedido de la UCR, la “bajada de línea” y los datos que les sonríen

Vizzoti warns it is 'impossible to hold back' Delta strain