Bragging Rights? Apparently Argentine Men Are The Tallest In South America
The Netherlands takes the cake for tallest men, with an average of 1.82 meters and the tallest women are Latvian with an average height of 1.7 meters. A new study revealed that Argentina has the tallest men in South America. The average height of Argentine men has increased 12 centimeters over the past century, from 1.62 meters to 1.74. Women’s average height increased by 8.6 centimeters to an average 1.59 meters today. According to the study, when ranking height, the men came in at 55th in the world and women at 96th.
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July 28, 2016 15:56 UTC
Massa Warns Foreign Investors Are ‘Cautious’ About Investing In Argentina
In Philadelphia this week for the Democratic National Convention, Renewal Front (FR) leader Sergio Massa expressed concern over the Argentine government’s optimism regarding foreign investment. In New York, he met with investors and in Philadelphia with Latino leaders of the Democratic Party. Read more: Sergio Massa Is Attending The Democratic National Convention For Some Reason. Massa said that while he found the US to look onto Argentina “amicably,” he thought the Macri administration was too optimistic in its predictions, which hope to see investors flock to the country. Massa is a national deputy and the founder of the FR party that rose out of the Argentine mid-term elections in 2013.
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July 28, 2016 15:35 UTC
Macri Administration Accused Of Violating Citizens’ Privacy With Database Handoff
Two Victory Front (FpV) deputies yesterday formally accused several key members of the Macri administration of abusing their authority and violating citizens’ privacy after the government granted the Communications Secretariat access to the National Social Security Administration’s (ANSES) database. With the ANSES database and good software, they can elaborate a platform of metadata that allows them to know your habits.”“What you like, your contacts, leanings, activities, etc. “We have the right to suspect that the Macri administration will use this information for illegal purposes, violating Law 25.236, which protects personal information,” reads a passage from the deputies’ accusation. The accusation seeks to start a criminal process to get the members of the Macri administration to be sentenced for their actions which, according to the deputies, break the law. “The administration intends to use this data for political propaganda, smear campaigns and to manipulate public opinion,” the accusation adds.
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July 28, 2016 14:59 UTC
Offseason Fun: Top 6 Things To Do In Tigre
Pick up your ticket (ARS 110) at the tourism office next to McDonald’s and sit back for the hour-long ride around the delta’s islands. Bonus: The Instagram likes will keep flowing in long after you’ve lapped up the last of Tigre. For dwellers of Buenos Aires, the town of Tigre is an oasis. (ARS 40, Paseo Victorica 972)(An honorary museum-mention goes to the Museo de Mate for its wall-to-wall Argentine cup kitsch. Kudos to Tigre’s tourism department for the coordinated street signs, maps and banners adorned with the town’s official seal – a tiger, fittingly.
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July 28, 2016 14:37 UTC
Your Thursday Commute: Callao And Corrientes Blocked, No Sarmiento Train
There are two protests that may (or may not) affect your commute this morning: one blocking the intersection of Callao and Corrientes and another suspending services on the Sarmiento train line. The Sarmiento train line is not working today due to a 24-hour protest: 350,000 passengers are allegedly affected. Sarmiento Train“We cannot allow ourselves to be sanctioned for demanding better security conditions for both workers and passengers.” – Rubén “Pollo” Sobrero. The unionists have warned that they are considering protesting again next week if there are no solutions. Callao and CorrientesThe “Corrientes Clasista y Combativa” group (CCC) began protesting at 7 AM this morning at the busy intersection due to alleged death threats directed at their president, Juan Carlos Alderete, alongside three other organization leaders.
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July 28, 2016 14:26 UTC
The Buenos Aires Ecoparque: A New Life Not Just For Animals
The state of the Buenos Aires Zoo was a delicate subject for a long time. On July 16th, we lived another historical day in Buenos Aires. It has been one month since that historical day, and we have been working with two essential convictions. The Ecoparque opened its doors, still a project in development, to let people (and specially children) see, listen and feel the first steps of the transformation. On June 23rd, the Buenos Aires City Government made a historical announcement: the Buenos Aires Zoo, an institution that had been operating for over 140 years, would be transformed into an ecological park, and it would be the Ministry of Modernization, Innovation and Technology the one in charge of the tremendous challenge to make a vision come true.
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July 28, 2016 14:03 UTC
Buenos Aires Eatery ‘RITA’ And The Changing Landscape of Chacarita
Only the slightest touches of salt or a vinaigrette distracted from the purity of a scrambled egg or vegetables served fresh as is. Simple breakfast, a lunch focused menu and tea,” begins Silvina Troulih, owner of RITA Restaurante, “I wasn’t actively searching. Like RITA, an unassuming looking lunch destination that doesn’t seem out of place from the Fábrica de Churros just a half block away. The one across the street, the source of bittersweet late night choripan consumption when El Imperio was closed, has disappeared too. Chacarita is not the neighborhood it used to be.
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July 28, 2016 12:00 UTC
Classical Music Alert! Barenboim Comes Back To Buenos Aires
The Festival Barenboim de música y reflexión is a collaboration between the conductor, classical music legends like Martha Argerich and Jonas Kaufmann, and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Teatro ColónCerrito 628July 24th – August 6th(here’s the West-Eastern Divan rocking a symphony you may be familiar with…) Thursday August 4th and Friday the 5th8:00 PMBarenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are back and collaborate with Argerich to present epic works by Liszt and Wagner. The child piano prodigy turned international conducting superstar was born right here in Buenos Aires, and will be presenting his latest project at the Teatro Colón through August 6th. Sunday July 31st5:00 PMBarenboim and Martha Argerich join forces to present Mozart, Brahms and Liszt.
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July 28, 2016 04:07 UTC
WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC audio files
WikiLeaks released files on Wednesday of what it said were audio recordings pulled from the emails of the Democratic National Committee that were obtained by hacking its servers. The latest release, which came in the middle of the Democratic National Convention where Hillary Clinton was officially named the party's presidential nominee, is the second batch in a series that has deeply rattled the party and prompted the organization's chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to step down.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
July 28, 2016 00:00 UTC
Macri And Tinelli Face Swap On Snapchat To Bury The Hatchet After Twitter Spat
Tinelli satirizes me in a bad way before 3 million people on television [but] takes offense over 30,000 Twitter users,” concluded Macri. In fact, sources from the Macri administration told La Nación that “everything is OK”: “They cleared everything up,” the source added. A part of the program features parodies of celebrities and politicians, and during the past days, Tinelli has been very critical of the Macri administration. But there were 30,000 Twitter users that criticized him. It looks like things went pretty well: after the meeting, Macri tweeted a video of the two face swapping on Tinelli’s Snapchat account.
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July 27, 2016 20:48 UTC
Macri Announces Plan To Fight Gender-Based Violence In Argentina
The group’s survey on domestic violence reached 40,000 respondents and its call for an end to violence has taken to the streets. According to Clarín, this plan is the first of its kind in Argentina, where the tragedy of gender-based violence has continued to weigh heavily on the nation. President Mauricio Macri said, “Gender-based violence is what impacts us the most. The plan is expected to make use of technology like ankle monitors on offenders and cellphone tracking software. In the audience were several family members of recent victims of gender-based violence, including the mother of Angeles Rawson, who was murdered by her doorman, and the mother of Lola Chomnalez, who was murdered during a summer vacation in Uruguay.
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July 27, 2016 20:26 UTC
Social Organization ‘Barrios De Pie’ Marches To La Plata To Demand Job Creation
After spending the night at the Alpargatas roundabout the marchers are expected to finish their march around 2 PM in La Plata tomorrow. “So we begin from the Obelisk to La Plata. In Terms Of Unemployment And Poverty, Cabinet Chief SaysBarrios de Pie is a social organization that voices the demands of unemployed people on a national level. Social organization Barrios de Pie once again put its foot down (pun intended) and started a 60-km march from the Obelisco in the heart of the City of Buenos Aires to the Buenos Aires Province capital of La Plata to demand an audience with provincial Governor María Eugenia Vidal. It has staged a number of protests and set up food distribution stations throughout the City of Buenos Aires these last few months to demand government action against swelling poverty numbers.
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July 27, 2016 19:07 UTC
Fed keeps rates unchanged, says risks to outlook reduced
"It sounded a reasonably upbeat tone, not a big difference from last time, but a reasonably upbeat tone," said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab and Co. The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but said near-term risks to the US economic outlook had diminished, opening the door to a resumption of monetary policy tightening this year. The Fed is most likely to wait until December to raise rates, according to a Reuters poll of economists. The US central bank said the economy had expanded at a moderate rate and job gains were strong in June. While Fed policymakers said they continued to closely monitor inflation data and global economic and financial developments, they indicated less worry about possible shocks that could push the US economy off course.
Source:Bueno Aires Herald
July 27, 2016 18:33 UTC
Macri Travels To Peru To Attend President Kuczynski’s Inauguration
President Mauricio Macri is traveling to Peru today to attend the inauguration of the country’s new president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, which will take place tomorrow morning. Macri will receive Peña Nieto a day after, on July 29th, also in the City of Buenos Aires. Peña Nieto and Macri already met at the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January. Read more: Macri Set To Travel To Peru And Later Meet With Mexican President Peña NietoFollowing tomorrow’s ceremony, Macri will quickly come back to the country to receive Qatari President Emir Hamad bin Khalifa. Macri’s meeting with Kuczynski is another opportunity to strengthen ties with the various members of the Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
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July 27, 2016 18:21 UTC
Study: Buenos Aires Apartment Prices Increased 9 Percent In Dollars
Buenos Aires is the place where you want to live. In the neighborhood of Almagro, these apartments increased by as much as 18.1 percent, while they became cheaper in Caballito by -0.3 percent. New three-room (two-bedroom) apartments increased even more in value, with an average of 11 percent throughout the City. In fact the City of Buenos Aires revealed statistics in June that proved that expenses for an apartment in the capital has risen by 39.2 percent in a year’s time. Meanwhile, used three-room apartments increased by 7.5 percent on the whole, with the highest increases in Chacarita (by 24.2 percent) while Colegiales saw a decrease of 4.3 percent.
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July 27, 2016 16:35 UTC