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In The News

First ‘Catcalling Case’ Goes To Court In Buenos Aires

A woman walking through a bus station in Buenos Aires
A woman walking through a bus station in Buenos Aires Martin Zabala/Xinhua/ZUMA

BUENOS AIRES — Lucía Cabrera was as frightened as she was annoyed. The 25-year-old physical education student had dealt with catcalling before. But in this case, the taxi driver hollering comments also followed her — for more than a block. Luckily she ran into a police officer and decided, for the first time in her life, to register a complaint. “I just wanted to report the situation,” Cabrera told the Argentine daily Clarín. “At first, I thought it wouldn’t amount to much,” Cabrera said. Mostly she just wanted to send the taxi driver a message; let him know that something […]

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In The News

Syrian Refugee Family In Argentina Returns To ‘Safer’ Aleppo

A sticker on the back of a marcher's jeans reads 'live under your own rules' and he carries a condom in his back pocket during the 17th annual gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual pride festival and march in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina
A sticker on the back of a marcher's jeans reads 'live under your own rules' and he carries a condom in his back pocket during the 17th annual gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual pride festival and march in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina Caitlin M Kelly/ZUMA

A Syrian family granted asylum in Argentina has opted to go back home in spite of its calamitous state of their hometown of Aleppo. But things seemed even worse in Cordoba.

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In The News

All Dating Is Speed Dating In The Digital Age

Love at first emoticon
Love at first emoticon Bertrand Hauger/Jillian Deutsch

Love, jealousy and courtship have become impatient, high-speed activities that play out on our computer screens and smartphones.

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Geopolitics Ideas

Brexit And The Falklands: Isolated UK Is Opportunity For Argentina

A man passes by a store in the Falklands
A man passes by a store in the Falklands Martin Zabala/ZUMA

Brexit could isolate Britain in its dispute with Argentina over the Falklands, though leaders in Buenos Aires need to think and speak clearly, or risk keep the status quo.

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Future Ideas

A Few Jobs AI Can Never Render Obsolete

AI on QWERTY
AI on QWERTY Arthur Caranta

Technology is transforming how goods and services are sold, and may soon kick millions of workers out of a job. But certain professions can’t be replaced by bots.

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Ideas Society

Seniority TV! Why We Need More Old Folk On The Small Screen

Argentina's Acua Mayor channel
Argentina's Acua Mayor channel Acua Mayor Facebook page

Innovative television programming could be challenging the dominance of youth on television in Argentina and Brazil.

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In The News

Venezuelan Folly, From Oil Riches to Food Beggary

Venezuelans carry food across the Colombian border last December.
Venezuelans carry food across the Colombian border last December. Jim Wyss/TNS via ZUMA

Venezuela is one of a handful of petrol states that imagined they could live it up forever off crude oil cash. After oil prices sank, decades of neglecting agriculture has now left a nation literally starving.

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In The News

Buenos Aires Wakes Up To The Importance Of New Age Siestas

UBA's 'grass patch' napping zone
UBA's "grass patch" napping zone FADU (UBA) Facebook page

Companies and universities in Argentina are encouraging naps to boost the productivity and mood of students and workers.

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In The News

Pope Francis: The Line Between Populism And The People

Pope Francis in St Peter's square
Pope Francis in St Peter's square Alfredo Borba

As his words and public gestures confirm, Francis is a people’s pope, not a populist, and as genuine as he is popular with ordinary folk.

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In The News

How Death Makes Us Human — For Now

Memento merry
Memento merry Vincent

Thinking of death is inherent to being human. Technological advances, like so many human activities, reflect our desire to avoid it. But that may all be bound to change.

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Ideas Trump And The World

After Trump, Argentina Restricts Immigration To Fight Crime

An officer during an operation in Buenos Aires
An officer during an operation in Buenos Aires Claudio Santisteban/ZUMA

-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — It must be a sign of the times. Echoing the clampdown of foreign visitors by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, Argentina is set to tighten its border controls in a country that has long received migrants from around the world. The move was taken ostensibly to target crime, which many Argentines […]

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In The News

Put All Doubts To Rest, China Is Betting On The Free Market

Shopping mall in Shanghai
Shopping mall in Shanghai Tahini

Xi Jinping’s calls in Davos to protect free trade are not a jab at Donald Trump, but in keeping with China’s march toward a market-led consumer society.

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In The News

When City Names Are A Passport To History

What's in a city name?
What's in a city name? barnimages

BUENOS AIRES — Places speak through their names, and the stories of their foundational origins constitute an intangible heritage as significant as any famous building or monument. Toponymy is the study of place names and their origins, the relationship, in other words, between a place and its name. And names often give us information on […]

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In The News

Do Elephants Have The Right To File A Lawsuit Against Their Zoo?

At the Buenos Aires Zoo
At the Buenos Aires Zoo Jorge Sanchez

Animal rights activists in Argentina are testing the limits of democratic rights on behalf of elephants they say are being mistreated at the Buenos Aires Zoo.

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In The News

How Buenos Aires Tries To Keep The Peace Between Neighbors

Close living quarters in Buenos Aires
Close living quarters in Buenos Aires Rachel Hobday

BUENOS AIRES — City living often means getting to know your neighbors well, though not necessarily by choice. Whether its late-night partying or that leak from their floor through your ceiling, apartment dwellers often find themselves face-to-face with very tangible conflicts with their fellow citizens. Buenos Aires, a city where people increasingly live in tight […]

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In The News

How Wildlife Survives Along A Toxic Argentine River

The Matanza River is the most contaminated river in Argentina
The Matanza River is the most contaminated river in Argentina Patricio Murphy/ZUMA

As officials plan a cleanup of the foul Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin, in Buenos Aires scientists are awed by the handful of creatures that manage to survive there.

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Economy Geopolitics

What A Trump Or Clinton Victory Would Mean For Markets

A file photo of fluctuating currency prices in Buenos Aires
A file photo of fluctuating currency prices in Buenos Aires Martin Zabala/Xinhua/ZUMA

While markets have already expressed short-term preferences for the respective U.S. presidential candidates, the long-term impact is harder to gauge.

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Future Ideas

Students Need New Mentality, Skill Set To Enter Job Market

Studying in Buenos Aires
Studying in Buenos Aires Herman Pineda

How the future of education, and work, look to an Argentine university rector.

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Ideas Society

When Art Tarnishes A Masterpiece Of Architecture

Phillip Johnson Glass House (with Kusama dots)
Phillip Johnson Glass House (with Kusama dots) Ninaindesign

-Essay- BUENOS AIRES — Exploiting architectural masterpieces as props for so-called ephemeral art is starting to become something of a permanent habit. Perhaps the first example that comes to mind is what happened to Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House. Alongside the Farnsworth residence — designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe and completed in 1951 […]

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Ideas The Next Pope

Argentine Pope Meets Argentine President, Awkward Again?

A stiff encounter last February at the Vatican
A stiff encounter last February at the Vatican Evandro Inetti/ZUMA

After a chilly first encounter, President Mauricio Macri and Pope Francis, both from Argentina but from different ends of the ideological spectrum, are set to meet again.

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Future Society

Urban Planning For The Ages, Buenos Aires Gets Senior-Friendly

A quarter of Buenos Aires residents are over 60 years old
A quarter of Buenos Aires residents are over 60 years old Claudio Santisteban/ZUMA

BUENOS AIRES — This city wants to make itself a kinder, friendlier place for the elderly, with plans to improve urban infrastructure and promote common-sense practices to help reduce accidents inside homes. Taking its lead from the World Health Organization (WHO), which has pushed in recent years for more user-friendly cities and better conditions for […]

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Society

The Creative Boost Of Buenos Aires’ Shared Workspaces

When sharing is working
When sharing is working DECK-co Facebook page

BUENOS AIRES — In the Argentine capital, always aiming to be on top of the latest trends, is part of the wave of turning staid office culture into hubs of creativity through shared workspaces. These workspaces, which are offices that freelancers share as a workplace, are found to foster useful interaction and creative activity. Many […]

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Society

Can Beauty Save The World? The Rise Of “Creative Cities”

A visitor attending the ArteBA, the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, in Buenos Aires in 2013.
A visitor attending the ArteBA, the most important contemporary art show in Argentina, in Buenos Aires in 2013. Martin Zabala/ZUMA

Both city officials and business leaders take note of where artsy types, LGBT and creative young people move to live, as these are the new “influencers” who can give the decisive spark to cities.

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Geopolitics Ideas

Dickens Revisited, “End Of History” To Endless Strife

A tale of two cubic cities
A tale of two cubic cities Tuncay

Instead of global stability, the end of the Cold War has ushered in an age of high-tech changes and social turmoil. New tales of two cities for the 21st Century.

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Green Or Gone

Greenwashing Architecture? The Myths Of Sustainable Buildings

The new British Horse Society HQ circles an ancient Oak tree and is topped with a Sedum green roof.
The new British Horse Society HQ circles an ancient Oak tree and is topped with a Sedum green roof. Sky Garden Ltd

For anyone truly concerned with climate change, trends like rooftop gardens and sustainable badges for office buildings are a distraction, at best.

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Future

Digital Oases For Cuba’s Internet Revolution

The Internet stations are biodegradable cubes, with fake grass flooring and solar panels.
The Internet stations are biodegradable cubes, with fake grass flooring and solar panels. Parawifi

HAVANA — Cuba“s belated embrace of the Internet has people packing into places like the Plaza de la Revolución and the colonial fort Castillito, two of the island’s just 114 public WiFi hotspots. Overall, the number of Cubans who regularly access the Web is still relatively small. But things are changing, and quickly. The Internet […]

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Society

In Era of Pokemon, Simulation Is The “Real Reality”

Pokemon Go craze is world wide.
Pokemon Go craze is world wide. Vichan Poti/Pacific Press via ZUMA

Is simulation turning people into escapists, wonders this Argentinian philosopher and science-fiction expert.

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Society

Is Argentina In An Era Of “Post-Homosexuality”?

A couple kissing during the Buenos Aires LBGTIQ Pride Parade in 2013
A couple kissing during the Buenos Aires LBGTIQ Pride Parade in 2013 Patricio Murphy/ZUMA

Sociologist Ernest Meccia explains how Argentina — one of the first countries in the world to introduce gay marriage — accepted and even embraced homosexuality.

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Society

How Architecture Can Lift Our Mood And Boost The Bottom Line

Empire State of mind.
Empire State of mind. Bertrand Hauger

-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — We seem to have forgotten how architecture can affect us and for that, perhaps, we can blame some of the excessive statements made about it. Consider Leon Battista Alberti, an early theorist of Renaissance architecture, who declared in 1400 that the balance of classical forms could turn barbarian invaders into civilized […]

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Society

Artist Turns CIA Papers Into “Mosaic” Of U.S. Role In Latin America

Inside Buenos Aires's museum.
Inside Buenos Aires's museum. MALBA Facebook Page

BUENOS AIRES — When Voluspa Jarpa got her hands on piles of court papers and declassified CIA documents linked to Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, she saw an opportunity to make art. The Chilean artist decided she’d use the material to create a vast, albeit austere, visual display that doubles as a discrete […]

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Geopolitics

Time To Choose Between Oil Wealth And Saving The Planet

Oil rig worker
Oil rig worker Jim Gehrz/ZUMA

Countries and industries around the globe must make the painful choice between lucrative fossil fuel exploitation and efforts to prevent climate change.

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Society

This Self-Sufficient Country Home Is “Not Normal” — Yet

Self-sustaining country home designed by architect Germán Spahr
Self-sustaining country home designed by architect Germán Spahr Gentileza Germán Spahr

BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine architect has won his country’s 2016 Sustainable Habitat Prize for his very first project, a self-sustaining country home inspired by Michael Reynolds’s emblematic “earthships.” The winning project, designed by architect Germán Spahr and built near Bariloche, in western Argentina, maximizes insulation, is self-powered, has a vegetable patch and even treats […]

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Economy

Argentina’s Return To Financial Markets Comes With A Price

Man in front of a house of currency exchange in Buenos Aires.
Man in front of a house of currency exchange in Buenos Aires. Martin Zabala/Xinhua/ZUMA

-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — A system of financial markets is a way to ensure the ready fluidity of all the assets that constitute economic wealth. Implementing the system requires “financial products,” which are meant to adequately represent that wealth, directly or indirectly. Thus, all the wealth that is “fixed” in the production process enters circulation […]

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Ideas Society

The Rush Of Capitalism Defies Eternal Concepts Of Time

Ever fleeting
Ever fleeting Senor Codo

Our linear, utilitarian view of time may be simply a construct of this modern, materialist civilization. What’s the rush? What does it mean?

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Ideas Society

Beyond The Gorilla Cage, Moral Costs Of The Modern Zoo

An elephant at the Buenos Aires Zoo
An elephant at the Buenos Aires Zoo HernanPC

The killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo after a toddler fell in his enclosure is just the latest example of the twisted concept of the zoo industry. What lessons for your kids?

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Society

Two Friends, Prison Time And Breakout Rap In Buenos Aires

Argentine rappers Brian Molina and Maximiliano Fernandez
Argentine rappers Brian Molina and Maximiliano Fernandez RABEAT via Instagram

BUENOS AIRES — Brian Molina and Maximiliano Fernández, two of Argentina’s emerging rap stars, met in jail. Molina was 11 years old when he wrote his first song. It was May 2005, and he was living at the Borchez de Otamendi home for minors in Buenos Aires. When he performed his song for friends, teachers […]

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Economy Society

From Brazil’s Samba Schools, Corporate Management Lessons

Samba rehearsal for Carnival in Rio
Samba rehearsal for Carnival in Rio bsas4u

Latin Americans work better with people they know. This dynamic is at the heart of Brazilian samba schools that compete in annual Carnival parades, and may provide solid input for office dynamics and productivity in private companies.

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Society

Poor Woman’s Tiny Home In Brazilian Slum Wins Architectural Prize

Sao Paulo's Villa Matilde
Sao Paulo's Villa Matilde Pedro Kok/Terra e Tuma Arquitetos

A Sao Paulo cleaning lady turned to a group of architects in hopes of sprucing up her ramshackle home. The result was a prize-winning revamp that challenges conventional ideas about cost and aesthetics.

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Green Or Gone Ideas

In Uruguay, A Sustainable School Built With Cans And Tires

A school that not only uses but also generates electricity
A school that not only uses but also generates electricity

Borrowing techniques developed by U.S. architect Michael Reynolds, a group of Uruguayan amateurs turned piles of trash into an innovative and one-of-a-kind education center.

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Ideas

An End To Ideology? The Hidden Rise Of Political Pragmatism

New London Mayor Sadiq Khan
New London Mayor Sadiq Khan Tolga Akmen/London News Pictures via ZUMA

From London to Latin America, the extremism featured on the news and political speeches in vogue belie the rise of pragmatism as the new dominant shaper of policy.

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