News of mendoza

Baby joy for travelling couple who spent pandemic stranded in Mendoza

19-06-2021 09:45 Baby Beatrice Myrtle Davis Bridges was born on March 18, 2021, at the Hospital Español de Mendoza to British mother Katherine Rose Bridges and American father Dawson Davis Jr, giving her a rare form of triple citizenship.

by Emma Ridden

Macri apologises for downplaying pandemic with ‘Covid flu’ remarks

18-06-2021 21:59 Former president apologises after describing Covid-19 as “a slightly more serious version of flu” in an interview with the Mendoza newspaper El Sol.

Plaintiffs in second Próvolo sex abuse trial demand 'end to delays'

17-04-2021 08:41 Victims and relatives complain defence lawyers for two nuns and several other women are stalling trial into historic child sex abuse at Próvolo Institute in Mendoza Province.

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

14-04-2021 11:02 Mendoza is synonymous with Malbec wine, but what's not so well known is that the province has become a reference for wine cellar architecture.

Mendoza hospital makes preparations, fearing Covid-19's second wave

14-11-2020 08:44 Mendoza’s Central Hospital is enjoying brief respite as cases fall, but staff are not placing their faith in fortune.

Mendoza Province said to win majority support for debt swap

22-09-2020 18:02 Mendoza set to become first provincial government to successfully reach a deal to restructure its own foreign debt, following in footsteps of national government.

Malbec bonds beat defaulted Argentine peers on investor hope

09-07-2020 02:26 A glimmer of hope is lurking within Argentina’s default-ravaged debt landscape: Bonds sold by Mendoza, the Andean-bordering province famed for exports of full-bodied Malbec wine.

What we learned this week: June 27 to July 4

04-07-2020 08:40 Stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Virus death toll rises to 55 in Argentina, as testing steps up

07-04-2020 16:02 More than 1,000 tests for Covid-19 now taking place each day, using123 laboratories across the country, says Health Ministry.

Morales protégé, Luis Arce, leads in polls head of Bolivian election

16-03-2020 22:32 The candidate of ex-president Evo Morales' MAS party, Luis Arce, has a commanding lead in opinion polls ahead of the May 3 presidential election in Bolivia

Mendoza government puts brakes on controversial mining law

26-12-2019 18:47 Mendoza Province Governor Rodolfo Suárez says he will hold a "broad debate" with all sectors of society on issue. UCR leader refuses to rule out popular vote on modifications to Law 7722.

'With this decision, Mendoza has regressed 12 years,' says co-author of Law 7722

24-12-2019 09:51 Lawyer and Cambia Mendoza provincial deputy Jorge Difonso on why protesters in Mendoza are taking to the streets in rejection of alterations made to legislation which restricted the use of dangerous chemicals in mining operations.

by Isabelle Margulies

Próvolo victims hope priests' sentences send Pope a message

27-11-2019 07:25 "This is a watershed case for society, justice, the victims and also for the Church," warns bishop, as victims demand Pope Francis take note of historic abuse case at Provólo Institute in Luján de Cuyo.

Priests who sexually abused deaf children get 40-year jail terms

25-11-2019 14:46 Mendoza court sentences Nicola Corradi to 42 years in prison and Horacio Corbacho to 45 years for sexually abusing deaf children at the Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children.

Goat farmers at climate change frontline in Argentina's wine belt

06-11-2019 16:48 Goat breeders scattered along the Andes foothills on the frontline of climate change, where conditions force them to take their herds higher up the mountains every year in order to graze.