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Triple “Pecuniary Sanctions” for the Company that Contaminated Lake Argentino. In Another Country They Would Have Withdrawn the Concession; Here Not — OPI Santa Cruz

(By: Rubén Lasagno) – After completing the research on the reasons and circumstances in which the tourism company Ice and Adventure SRL, which exploits the concession of the tourist navigation in the Argentine Lake within the park Los Glaciares in El Calafate, finally the Director of National Parks was issued on May 30, 2025, regarding the responsibility of the tourist operator that produced the pollution with hydrocarbons and oils in the bed of…Read Article

Firearms · El Calafate

Alarm and Tension: Entered a Place in Santa Cruz, Exhibited a Gun to the Customers and Ended up in Detention

An episode of high tension and concern took place in El Calafate during the night of last Wednesday, when an armed man provoked fear and disorder within a shop in the town of Santa Cruz. The event took place around 21 hours in the “DistriSur” trade, located on the busy corner of Avenida del Libertador and Calle Pioneros, a regular shopping place for neighbors and tourists. According to police sources, the First Police Division received an urgent…Read Article

Justice · El Calafate

Judicial Checks for the Government of Santa Cruz: Order to Restore Deleted Techniques

The Justice of Santa Cruz issued a ruling that represents a strong setback for the Provincial Council of Education (CPE) and the Government of Claudio Vidal. Judge Marcelo Bersanelli, holder of the Civil Court No. 1 of Río Gallegos, took place under the protection presented by the Valdocco Foundation and ordered the restoration of the arbitrarily eliminated technical careers in the secondary school “Our Lady of Patagonia” in El Calafate. The sen…Read Article

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Lacustrian Company Organizes Solidarity Navigation to Raise Funds for Schools — OPI Santa Cruz

The tourist companies that carry out navigation in the Argentine Lake and in the area of the National Park Los Glaciares will make a draw of a trip planned on June 14 with promotional rates and whose collection will be for the benefit of educational establishments of El Calafate and El Chaltén. The proposal is called “Solidarity Navigation” and previews that the rates will be lowered for those who access the prize drawn. The National Park Los Gl…El Calafate · El CalafateRead Article

The corrupt and mafioso friend of Ignacio Torres and Claudio Vidal with conviction confirmed (as could not be otherwise) — OPI Santa Cruz

(For: Giuliano Ventura for OPI Chubut) – Tell me who you are and I will tell you who you are, says the old popular saying, a phenomenon that in psychology translates as “transfer of status”. Politically, the transitive ownership of behaviors is applied to people who are related to each other and at this point, those convergences are usually political or personal.El Calafate · El CalafateRead Article

They will sign an agreement to improve the infrastructure of three airports in Santa Cruz

On the basis of a joint work between technical teams and national and provincial authorities, the Government of Santa Cruz articulated for the next few days the signing of an agreement to provide airport infrastructure to three localities of the province. In this framework, the Undersecretary of Transport of Santa Cruz, José Orlando Maldonado, accompanied by the Director General of Air Development, Andrés Casanova met with the manager of Economi…Infrastructure · El CalafateRead Article

Former tennis player Nadal will build a hotel in El Calafate — OPI Santa Cruz

Former Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal partnered with the renowned Spanish hotel chain Meliá and will launch the hotel brand Zel that plans to build the first venture in Argentina in the tourist village of El Calafate. The relationship between the former N°1 of the world and Meliá Hotels International was formalized at the end of 2022, in order to offer luxury accommodation in various tourist destinations in Patagonia. El Calafate is the gate…Rafael Nadal · El CalafateRead Article

The Spanish Rafael Nadal will open a hotel in Argentina - Sin Mordaza

The Spanish legend of tennis, Rafael Nadal, retired in 2024, will install a hotel in El Calafate (Santa Cruz), scheduled for the end of 2026 with Meliá Hotels International, with which he signed a collaboration agreement in 2022. The negotiation process to begin the construction of the accommodation space is almost complete. This investment would be the first of a more ambitious plan: Meliá plans to invest $200 million in the next five years in …Rafael Nadal · El CalafateRead Article

The new 6,7,8. Milei found his own militant journalists — OPI Santa Cruz

(By: Álvaro de Lamadrid for OPI Santa Cruz) – Critical journalism was a pillar of democracy. But, in the beginnings of the splendor of the Kirchners, there were few, who as Opisantacruz remained independent and critical. Many joined in time, when the overwhelming lack of democratic oxygen threatened to end the foundations of our democracy. Today this medium remains an emblem of independence.Javier Milei · El CalafateRead Article

Meliá and Rafa Nadal choose Calafate for a hotel of their brand Zel Noticias de turismo REPORTUR

Rafael Nadal and the hotel chain Meliá chose the Patagonian city El Calafate as the first Argentine destination to invest with the hotel brand Zel, which was launched at the end of 2022 when the former tennis player allied with the Spanish chain. Recently, the Spanish hotelier announced an investment of more than US$ 200 million to add seven accommodations in the country in the next five years. “We have already planned another opening, in El Cal…Rafael Nadal · El CalafateRead Article

Since May, the province will charge entry to Los Glaciares National Park — OPI Santa Cruz

After an agreement between the National Parks Administration (APN) and the Government of Santa Cruz, from May the province will take charge of the charge in the access to the National Park Los Glaciares. The agreement was signed this week after terminating in November the agreement with the Municipality of El Calafate and whose provision governed until February 20, 2025. Through this agreement, the province will obtain 20% of the value of each e…El Calafate · El CalafateRead Article

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