Planning Minister Julio De Vido ratified that the national government is poised to apply several fines to the Edesur energy company, adding that they would “reevaluate their contract” with them and contact the Italian embassy in order to express “their profound criticism” of the latest blackouts.
Amidst rumours of reevaluating their contract with Edesur, Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that the National Electricity Regulator (ENRE) would be conducting an economic and technical audit on the energy supplier due to a series of power cuts that hurt thousands of users last week.
“We’re confident these new leads are real,” Rubén López, son of disappeared Julio López, told the press after leaving a meeting he held with Buenos Aires Security Minister Ricardo Casal, adding that he hoped this new information would help clear the case investigating his father’s disappearance one and for all.
Economy Minister Amado Boudou and Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido both strongly rejected the existence of an “inflationary process or sustained price hike” in the country.
After what was almost an entire day of intense search by the authorities for the body of Julio López, Guadalupe Godoy, the López family lawyer, said she would ask the unidentified witness who came forward with the information about the man’s disappearance to provide the police with more specific information regarding the whereabouts of the construction worker’s body.
Forensic experts continued their search for the body of Jorge Julio López in the surroundings of the Pereyra Iraola Park, although his son Rubén admitted that all results “had come back negative so far.”
Once again, a new search for Julio López’s body in the area of the Pereyra-Iraola Park train station came back negative this afternoon after forensic officials failed to find any evidence pointing towards it being buried there.
After the Radical Party’s National Committee announced that the UCR would back Ricardo Alfonsín’s presidential candidacy, Vice-President Julio Cobos announced that he would be stepping down from the race since he said there was no point in going “against the party’s official candidate.”
Vicepresident Julio Cobos confirmed today that he’ll be part of the swearing-in ceremony of relected president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner but didn't confirmed rumours indicating that he'll be swearing-in Amado Boudou instead of CFK. Plus warned that he's “ready to face any uncomfortable situation.”
After yesterday's high-voltage clash between Juan Román Riquelme and coach Julio Falcioni, Boca Juniors resumed works today in a highly expected practice. President Daniel Angelici said house's in peace and said the alleged exchange of opinions between the coach and the players was just a "misunderstanding."
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