Families in Ciudad Nueva unknowingly drank arsenic-laced water. Now, they live with the scars — and they’re losing faith in the government’s ability to solve the problem.
Author: Lucila Pellettieri
Among the many cuts by the Milei government was a program that paid people to clear trash from their own neighborhoods. Now, both garbage and health fears are piling up.
As Argentina deregulates pesticide and herbicide drones, residents in Lobos fight the growing threat to health and the environment.
Argentina’s informal recycling network, once a lifeline for thousands, is unraveling as falling prices and new policies make waste-picking unsustainable.
A year ago, Javier Milei’s government lifted price controls. Since then, food costs have spiked by more than 90%.
People in northwest Argentina let lithium mining companies onto their land. They didn’t expect to lose their water sources in the process.