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ARSAT-1 Satellite to be Launched Today
ARSAT-1 (photo courtesy of Ministerio de Planificación) Argentina’s first geostationary satellite ARSAT-1 will be launched at 6pm today from a base in French Guiana. From orbit, the satellite will...
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Body of Luciano Arruga Found
Luciano Arruga The body of Luciano Arruga, the teenager missing since 2009 and believed to have been killed by the police, was identified today. In a press conference held by CELS (Centre for Legal and...
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Two New Metrobus Stations to be Dismantled
The Metrobus on 9 de Julio (Photo: Télam) Two Metrobus stops that were built in Pompeya last year at a cost of $4m will be taken down to make way for a new transfer station. The Buenos Aires City...
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President Sends New Criminal Procedure Bill to Congress
President Fernández talks about the new Criminal Procedure Law in a TV address (Photo: Presidencia/Télam) President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner formally sent a new bill to reform the Criminal...
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Tax Office AFIP to Monitor Tourist Rental Agreements
AFIP Offices (photo: Beatrice Murch)Property owners and agencies that rent to tourists will be required to declare the information at the tax office AFIP from March next year, according to a resolution...
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Chaco: New National Park Created in El Impenetrable
El Impenetrable (photo courtesy of National Parks Administration) A new national park has been created in El Impenetrable forest in the province of Chaco. The 128,000-hectare reserve will protect...
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Major Fossil Bed Discovered in San Juan ‘Pre-Dates’ Dinosaurs
Scientists found animal remains that pre-date dinosaurs (photo: Télam/dsl) Scientists have discovered an extensive collection of microfossils more than 200 million years old in the province of San...
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Government Presents New Bill to Regulate Telecoms Sector
The government yesterday announced that it would present Congress with a new bill to regulate the country’s telecommunications sector, in order to encourage competition and enforce minimum service...
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Supreme Court Judge Eugenio Zaffaroni Resigns
Supreme Court Judge Eugenio Zaffaroni (photo courtesy of Ariel Darder) Supreme Court Judge Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni has submitted his resignation letter to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,...
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Argentina Begins Currency Swap with China
Chinese currency The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) received yesterday the equivalent of US$814m in Chinese yuan, as part of a currency swap agreed with the Asian country in July. The Chinese Central...
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Santa Cruz Police on Strike
Police officers in the cities of Caleta Olivia and Río Gallegos, in the southern province of Santa Cruz, have been on strike for over 24 hours. They are demanding a 25% salary increase. Government...
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AFIP Suspends P&G Operations Over Suspected ‘Tax Fraud’
AFIP Offices (photo: Beatrice Murch)Argentine tax office, AFIP, said yesterday that it had suspended multinational Procter & Gamble (P&G)’s operations in the country over alleged tax fraud and...
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Courts Acquits Two Accused of Inciting Indoamericano Takeover
Police approach the blocked road (Escalada) and pass through the barrier to the Parque Indoamericano in 2010. (Photo: Kate-Sedgwick)Two activists accused of inciting the occupation of Parque...
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Cristian Ferreyra Murder Trial Begins in Santiago del Estero
Victim Cristian Ferreyra, and his baby child (Image via MOCASE-VC)The trial of seven men accused of being involved in the murder of indigenous farmer Cristian Ferreyra in 2011 began today in Monte...
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Journalist Prosecuted for Colluding with Dictatorship
The interview was published in Para Ti on 10th September 1979 Agustín Bottinelli, the former director of Para Ti magazine, is to be prosecuted for duress for publishing a false interview with Thelma...
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Government Tightens Border Controls for ‘False Tourists’
Immigration office in Buenos Aires (photo: DNM) The Immigration Department has established new border controls to determine whether foreign citizens who enter Argentina should really be classified as...
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Seven Officers Charged Over Shooting of Nine-Year-Old Boy
Kevin Molina was nine when killed in a shootout in Villa Zavaleta (Photo via La Poderosa) Seven coastguard (prefectura) officers have been charged for failing to act during a prolonged shoot out...
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AFIP Leads Series of Raids as Crackdown Intensifies
AFIP officers lead a series of raids in 71 addresses suspected of being involved in illegal financial activities. (Photo: Victoria Egurza/TELAM/)Tax office AFIP today led coordinated raids in 71...
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Trial over Villa Moreno Massacre Begins in Rosario
The accused sit in court with their lawyers (photo: Jose Granata/Télam) This morning at 9.30am the trial opened over the 2012 murder of three young people in Villa Moreno, Rosario. Four people have...
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Mapuche Community Given ‘Benetton Land’ Titles
‘The invisible colours of Benetton’ (Photo: Fabio D’Errico) The National Institute for Indigenous Affairs (INAI) has formally recognised the Santa Rosa Leleque Mapuche community’s ownership of 535...
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