Argentinian government urges Buenos Aires residents to leave city for G20

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Argentinian government urges Buenos Aires residents to leave city for G20

Friday has been declared a public holiday, flights will be diverted and public transport will be cancelled as city braces for protests

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Wed 28 Nov 2018 08.00 GMT

Argentina’s capital city will go into a total security shutdown on Thursday as the heads of state of the world’s 20 biggest economies start arriving for the two-day G20 summit, which begins on Friday.

All flights over Buenos Aires will be diverted and trains, subways and all public transport will be cancelled for the duration of the summit, as the city braces for around 33 anti-G20 protests and cultural events.

Friday has been declared a public holiday, and the center-right government of Argentinian president Mauricio Macri has encouraged the city’s inhabitants to head out of town during the conference.

“We recommend you use the long weekend to leave,” said the security minister, Patricia Bullrich. “Leave on Thursday because the city’s going to get very complicated.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/argentina-g20-summit-buenos-aires-public-holiday-leave-town

[mr_lebowski]

1. "Look, I mean, you all have vacation homes outside the city, right? And cars, too?

And plenty of extra dough lying around? Great!

You see, we have a whole bunch of rich foreign leaders coming to town, and y'all are not nearly as important, and frankly, an eyesore, so ... if you could just GTFO, that'd be greeeeeaaaatttt" - Macri