News of la plata

Summer season off to bang in Argentina with 12.8 million taking trips

19-01-2023 14:45 Four-week period between the second half of December and the first half of January saw 2.3% more tourists on move than in the previous year, with travellers generally taking shorter trips but spending more.

ARGENTINA: WORLD CHAMPIONS

'Dibu' Martínez gets a hero's welcome in his home town

23-12-2022 09:11 Emiliano Martínez greeted by a crowd estimated at 100,000 in his home town, Mar del Plata, as he calls on young goalkeepers to win Argentina's "their fourth star."

NATIONAL PRIDE

National pride: world champions welcomed as heroes in their hometowns

22-12-2022 17:14 World Cup winners given honours and warm welcomes as they are welcomed back to their hometowns as heroes.

Politics

Fernández de Kirchner decries loss of ‘democratic pact’ in speech

18-11-2022 00:08 Amid shouts from supporters for her to make a presidential run, Argentina's vice-president delivers fiery take on the country’s current situation, while dodging any direct announcement as to candidacies.

And that reminds me…

A fireworks summit

05-11-2022 06:14 There is a strong case for presenting that Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata exactly 17 years ago today and the surrounding anniversaries as the true birth of Kirchnerism.

by Michael Soltys

Covid & La Costa

Covid erupts in Argentina at height of summer vacation season

14-01-2022 19:32 In Mar del Plata, crowds flock to the beaches, bars, discos, restaurants – and mobile Covid testing units.

ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY

Deepwater oil targeted by Argentine activists who quashed mining

11-01-2022 21:50 After a recent victory in Chubut Province, environmental activists in Argentina are trying to prevent new oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean.

ENVIRONMENT

Thousands protest oil exploration project off coast of Argentina

05-01-2022 14:56 Thousands of people march along the beaches of Mar del Plata to protest an oil exploration project off the Atlantic coast.

CRIME & SECURITY

Sailor commits double murder on tanker in Río de la Plata, gives himself up

27-10-2021 21:45 A double murder took place in the River Plate aboard a tanker with an Argentine crew and flying the Maltese flag of convenience, it was revealed last weekend. A 52-year-old crewman shot dead the captain and first mate of the vessel, before giving himself up.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

José Mujica: ‘Things cannot function when one half of the country is against the other half’

22-10-2021 22:15 Former Uruguay president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica on heroes and leaders, fanaticism and feminism, Argentina and the River Plate and the meaning of his life.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2021: PASO PRIMARIES

Frente de Todos doubles down in Buenos Aires Province

04-09-2021 10:09 Ruling coalition to stage two closing campaign rallies – Wednesday in Mar del Plata and Thursday at La Plata’s Estadio Unico stadium – as voting time draws near. Frente de Todos are confident of the race in Buenos Aires Province, but the opposition believes it’s more of an open contest.

by Rosario Ayerdi

VICE-PRESIDENT SPEAKS

CFK tells media to leave ‘vaccines and pandemic out of political disputes’

15-06-2021 09:35 Ex-president lets rip at government critics, telling the opposition and hostile media outlet to “leave vaccination and the pandemic out of political disputes.”

Death of Diego Maradona

13 key findings from expert report into Diego Maradona’s death

03-05-2021 13:36 Expert medical panel concludes actions of the medical team looking after Maradona were “inadequate, deficient and reckless” and “increased the risk” of late footballer’s death.

by Leonardo Nieva

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Expert panel says Maradona was left to ‘fate’ ahead of death

30-04-2021 22:17 Diego Maradona received inadequate medical care and was left to “fate” for a "prolonged, agonising period" before he died last year, an expert medical panel concluded Friday.