As of January 1, 2017, supermarkets in the City of Buenos Aires will no longer provide their customers with plastic bags. According to the City government, the plan is to reduce the number of plastic bags by 55 percent, or by 580 million. Over the weekend, a letter sent to the head of the Buenos Aires provincial police’s internal affairs department, Guillermo Berra, was revealed that allegedly outlined a police plot to kill Buenos Aires Province Governor María Eugenia Vidal and her Security Minister Cristian Ritondo. Fariña, who is under a witness protection program, received a message on his secret mobile phone number (i.e. He had first been diagnosed with cancer at 28, but survived until the age of 71.
Source: The Bubble September 05, 2016 14:26 UTC