Grita Diseño: The Fair Featuring Signature Argentine Design
A new edition of the design fair, Grita Diseño, is about to take place in the heart of the Recoleta. Grita Diseño showcases Argentinian signature design and provides a one stop shop where you can find original apparel, objects, crafts, decor, beauty products and a special spot dedicated to eco friendly stuff to boot. According to the forecast, this weekend will be warm and sunny with a heavy chance of high style! Grita Diseño is scheduled on the Saturday 6th from 3 PM to 9 PM and on Sunday from 1 PM to 9 PM and is, like we mentioned, totally free. This will especially true at Saturday’s wrap-up event (around 9 PM) where a DJ and bubbles are set to ring out the first day.
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August 03, 2016 18:22 UTC
Cristina Accuses Bullrich Of Leaking Information Regarding Her Security Detail
She is set to attend a judicial mediation with National Deputy Margarita Stolbizer. Cristina denied any wrongdoing and in return formally accused Stolbizer of mounting a smear campaign against her. Finally, she hosted a political rally with Kirchnerite youth organization La Cámpora in the district of Avellaneda, also on Sunday. Hotesur is a company that managed hotels in Santa Cruz Province that belong to the Kirchner family. Cristina, Florencia and Máximo Kirchner have all been indicted in the case.
Source:The Bubble
August 03, 2016 18:11 UTC
Tecnópolis Is Back, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires’s science and technology extravaganza will open its doors starting this Thursday, August 4th and will be packing in all the awesome nerdy action through to the end of the month. If you’ve never been, you’re in for an all-encompassing, educational Disneyland. General Paz and Constituyentes)WhenAugust 4th – August 31stThursday – Friday 10:00AM – 6:00 PMSaturday – Sunday 12:00 PM – 8:00 PMHow Much? With a little help from the government, Tecnópolis pulls out all of the stops and you can experience everything from animatronic dinosaurs, to four entire pavilions dedicated to the art of social media. You can check out the full line-up of this year’s exhibits and a specific calendar of events here.
Source:The Bubble
August 03, 2016 17:03 UTC
Rainbow Crosswalks, Traffic Light Figures Celebrate Diversity In Buenos Aires
Read more: LGBTIQ Festival Comes To Town: Buenos Aires DiversaDrag queens, art expositions, lectures and queer tango performances will all be part of the Diverse Buenos Aires festival, which will celebrate its third year. Small demonstrations of same-sex love, rainbows and other signifiers of LGBTQ appreciation have appeared in pedestrian areas of the city, in honor of LGBTQ Pride Week and Buenos Aires Diversity (Buenos Aires Diversa). As well, Buenos Aires is the fifth most popular destination for gay tourism in the world. It might be a sense — you can’t place it, but something feels a bit different about the City of Buenos Aires this week, a bit more colorful. According to the Argentine Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Buenos Aires is the best destination for members of the LGBTQ community in all of Latin America.
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August 03, 2016 16:30 UTC
Argentine Honey Exports Are Back On Upswing
La Nación spoke to Javier Nascel, president of Nexco, the company in charge of 25 percent of Argentine honey exports, who explained that, “In 2015, Argentina decided to sell relatively little honey. Newsan President Luis Galli told La Nación that, “We today sell food products like fish, peanuts and honey, among others. This is a significant number because the last time that Argentina exceeded it was in 2007 (with 81,000 tons sold). Each year Newsan sells between 6,000 and 5,000 tons of honey and makes an estimated US $10 million from it. From January until May, Argentina has sold 32,000 tons of honey, which means it is set to smoothly recover from a slow 2015 when only 44,330 tons were sold in the whole year.
Source:The Bubble
August 03, 2016 16:07 UTC
Study: Argentina Considered To Have ‘High Level Of Progress’
The five countries are considered to have a “High Level of Progress.” Argentina is also up from the 2014 results, which placed it at #42. The Social Progress Index begins by defining what it means to be a good society based around three dimensions. In the Foundations of Well-being category, Argentina scores highest in Access to Basic Knowledge but lags behind in Environmental Quality. The first is, does everyone have the basic needs for survival: food, water, shelter, safety? The highest-performing country, according to the Social Progress Index, is Finland, with an overall score of 90.09, followed by Canada, Denmark, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Iceland and New Zealand.
Source:The Bubble
August 03, 2016 15:45 UTC
#FreeBelén Video Demands Woman Accused Of Inducing Abortion Be Released
There she was accused by hospital staff of having caused an abortion during the 20th week of her pregnancy, though Belén denies having ever been pregnant. In fact, President Mauricio Macri recently made it clear that he will be not be passing any law in support of abortion. A group of artists, politicians and journalists collaborated to create a video under the slogan #LibertadParaBelén (#FreeBelén) demanding the release of Belén, a young woman from Tucumán Province who was condemned to eight years in prison for having allegedly induced an abortion. Several initiatives have been struck up in Congress to reform abortion laws but none have succeeded so far. Later in the video, Ursula Vargas, a television host, states, “Belén was condemned for being a woman and being poor.”Two years ago, Belén went to the hospital after enduring crippling abdominal pain.
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August 03, 2016 14:48 UTC
US Secretary Of State John Kerry In Argentina To Meet With Macri
US Secretary of State John Kerry will be arriving in the country tonight for a brief but intense 24-hour visit. During the afternoon, Kerry will make his way to the Foreign Ministry to meet Macri and Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra. Two years later, Kerry made his way to the Senate where he worked for 28 years. According to La Nación, however, it is not expected Kerry will make significant announcements considering he is part of an administration on its way out. According to La Nación, Kerry is here for three main reasons: Reinforce diplomatic ties between Argentina and the US; continue developing the countries’ new bilateral agenda begun with US President Barack Obama’s state visit in March; and fine-tune previous agreements on combating drug trafficking.
Source:The Bubble
August 03, 2016 13:52 UTC
Bonadio moves on AMIA treason case against ex-president
Specifically, Bonadio accepted that Luis Czyzewski and Mario Averbuch, fathers to two of the AMIA victims, be registered as plaintiffs in the case. In their submission to Bonadio, lawyers for Czyzewski and Averbuch requested that late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s complaint against the Fernández de Kirchner be fully taken into consideration. Bonadio is currently handling the investigation into the accusations of treason against CFK, Timerman and every member of the Congress that voted in favour of the MOU. That request was also dismissed as the judges found that the allegations of treason occurred independently of the recording. Daia requests that nisman complaint be reopened Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Bonadio moves on AMIA treason case against ex-presidentThe chances of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner facing a renewed judicial inquiry over the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran and the 1994 AMIA bombing have increased after Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio accepted family members of the AMIA victims as plaintiffs in a case against Fernández de Kirchner.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
August 03, 2016 03:20 UTC
Aranguren: our voters should pay up on hikes
“We recognize the sense of anguish in the population, but we have to ask the social group that voted for us to make this effort, for us to be able to satisfy the country’s energy demands,” Aranguren said. According to Aranguren, users should still pay their bills if they can afford it, as eventually they could be refunded for any extra charges if they are suspended or restructured. The Minister’s remarks came on the same day in which the La Plata Federal Appeal’s court said that a final resolution on whether the hikes to natural gas decreed by Aranguren would be greenlighted or not will arrive tomorrow. In his view, “the way we were going, if nothing had been done then we were going to run out of energy. The country’s top tribunal had requested a rationale from the government some weeks ago, as a response to the host of legal conficts that spread nationwide after the hikes.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
August 03, 2016 03:11 UTC
Beloved humorist Juan Carlos Mesa dies
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Beloved humorist Juan Carlos Mesa diesComedic master created memorable comical characters for radio, TV and filmComedian, author and scriptwriter of many local television hits, Juan Carlos Mesa died yesterday in a Buenos Aires hospital, where he was being treated for kidney failure. With an early penchant for white humour, he started in the 1950s at a local radio and cut his teeth on clever skits about the human zoo of the city. Returning to his hometown in 1997, he led the radio show El despertador, on LV2, which won him the Bamba and Excelencia awards. Appearing mainly on radio, he worked with his brother Edgardo and son, Juan Martín, in El Surtidor (“The Dispenser”), a variety show complete with astrology forecasts. He returned to television, however, as the chief writer and in a supporting role in a 2003 sitcom, Dr. Amor.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
August 03, 2016 02:48 UTC
Gioja to CFK: make up your mind on Peronism
“Massa, Urtubey, Perotti are the renewal of Peronism, and there are new faces to accompany this process too,” Pichetto said. “I think what counts is to work every day, if it’s for something that you want,” Gioja added. The current chair of the PJ José Luis Gioja took aim at the former president’s recent spate of public appearances as being an easy way to help Fernández de Kirchner’s own image but not contributing to rebuilding Peronism. Pichetto joined the growing ranks of Peronists appearing to distance themselves from CFK, saying that “a process of accommodation (and) looking forward” was required for the PJ. ‘Generational change’Gioja was joined in his apparent criticism of the former president by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, the leader of the Peronist bloc in the Senate.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
August 03, 2016 02:48 UTC
New Petrobras graft arrests tie PSDB to bribe
Queiroz Galvão was part of a consortium working on the construction of the plant, which included other major firms. The investigation is hunting for additional evidence that Queiroz Galvão systematically paid bribes to win over contracts with Petrobras, prosecutors said. The sprawling “Operation Carwash” investigation was launched two years ago to tackle price fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at state-run oil firm Petrobras. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 New Petrobras graft arrests tie PSDB to bribeProsecutors from sprawling investigation target executives from Queiroz Galvão building firmBRASILIA/CURITIBA — Brazil’s federal police said they had arrested two people and raided properties yesterday over alleged corruption at building firm Queiroz Galvão, as fresh allegations linked the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) to an alleged US$3-million bribe. Former Queiroz Galvão senior executive Ildefonso Colares Filho and current employee Othon Zanoide de Moraes were arrested, authorities said in a press briefing in the southern city of Curitiba.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
August 03, 2016 02:48 UTC
Momentum Builds To Name Subway Stop After Late Argentine LGBT Activist
There’s a petition going around on change.org to name the new Santa Fé station on the H line after Argentine LGBT activist Carlos Jáuregui. The location of the subway station in question is relevant to Ferraro’s petition: it is situated on the corner of Puerreydón and Santa Fé. Santa Fé Avenue and its associated environs have been described as fundamental to the city’s LGBT history, and the subway station, that sits in the middle of it, could become a modern landmark to the neighborhood’s legacy. This August 20th will mark the twentieth anniversary of his death; Jáuregui died at age 38 of AIDS. The initiative, that was initially put forward by representative Maximiliano Ferraro, was given the thumbs up in a tweet by city the city’s mayor, Rodríguez Larreta.
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August 02, 2016 20:26 UTC
Case Investigating Cristina For Treason Regarding AMIA Bombing Reopened
It’s necessary to clarify this is not the case opened by the late Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, which investigated whether Cristina and Timerman covered up the role Iran could have played in the AMIA bombing. Just like with Nisman’s accusation, the case had been archived by Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas in 2015. Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio today upheld a request from family members of victims of the 1994 Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish center bombing to be appointed as plaintiffs in a case investigating former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and former Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman for treason. In fact, the president of the Delegation of Israeli Associations (DAIA), Ariel Cohen Sabban, today also officially requested Judge Rafecas de-archive the case, but it hasn’t transpired whether he presented new evidence. Just in case you forgot what the Nisman case and the memorandum of understanding (MOU) are all about, here’s a brief explanation: In 2013 Argentina and Iran signed this MOU to conduct a bilateral joint investigation into the bombing.
Source:The Bubble
August 02, 2016 19:52 UTC