mercopress.com reported… Not even Government House or two crucial ministries directly responsible for the situation could escape the blackouts. Casa Rosada was left in the dark and with no air conditioning for ten minutes and the ministries of two most trusted and loyal officials, Axel Kicillof (Economy) and Julio De Vido (Federal Planning and Infrastructure) had to suspend all activities for over half an hour when temperature in Buenos Aires reached 36 degrees. On Tuesday the Argentine System of Interconnection reported that a new record was established for the consumption of electrical power in a working day, when demand reached an afternoon high of 23,433 megawatts. The new benchmark knocked out Monday’s record. Read Article
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elpais.com reported, Argentina returned to live in the early hours of Sunday to another night of looting Monday, with dead in the province of Entre Rios and 25 people injured in the middle of the passivity of the police. On Tuesday it came to pass in the municipality of Cordoba. And on Sunday occurred in […]
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USA Today reports that a two-level commuter train slammed into another that had stopped between stations during the morning commute Thursday in a suburb of Buenos Aires, killing three passengers and injuring more than 100. Passengers who were able to walk stumbled out of the train and walked along the tracks in the pre-dawn darkness, […]
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According to a Reuters report, Chilean and Argentine authorities on Monday declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-km (15.5-mile) radius around the active Copahue volcano, which straddles the border between the two Andean nations. The volcano – located some 500 km (310 miles) south of capital Santiago, between Chile’s Bio […]
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