No radar coverage over Buenos Aires?
Being the first topic that I open, I apologize in advance should it be in the wrong subforum... I used the search but could not find anything and being just a private pilot I do not usually read NOTAMS etc. for South America.
NZZ Newspaper from ZRH (as well as other papers) reports that since a lightning stroke on 1st March 07, there is no radar coverage any more over the region Buenos Aires and parts of Argentina. According to the report neither EZE nor AEP airports have radar coverage nor "control" nor "approach/departure" and there are already reports (denied by the responsible military) about one TCAS-avoided near-miss between a UA T7 and an Andes MD80.
Is this COMPLETE lack of radar coverage a fact or is the press just making more of it than it deserves (e.g. just one sub-radar down, all others working)?