Argentine landscape historian Sonia Berjman deplores a lack of long-term planning and park maintenance in Buenos Aires.
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Clarin is the largest newspaper in Argentina. It was founded in August 1945 and is based in Buenos Aires.
Venezuela’s PDVSA, once among the world’s most powerful oil firms, was transformed and largely gutted under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. But the story is more complicated than it may seem.
Argentina must discern and deftly negotiate for its national interests in the rising, global trading order dominated by China.
The price, however, is being paid in lost lives.
Javier Franco, a mountain guide in Argentina Patagonia, started with an idea. Next he had a prototype. Now, he and his siblings run a small but thriving business in Buenos Aires.
President-elect Joe Biden’s ample support base is fluid and can melt away, if his administration ignores the social and political grievances that led millions to vote for Donald Trump.
In a country famous for its carne culture, a new generation is opting for a far different kind of diet, and food retailers are paying attention.
The South American soccer legend has left us, but his spirit and exploits will live on, along with the country he so perfectly personified.
Unlike his populist predecessor, the U.S. president-elect has an opportunity to engage with the leftist forces within Latin America that can then bring pressure to bear on the Maduro regime.
Forging a new constitution to replace the one from the Pinochet era is necessary for Chile to move forward. But it alone cannot solve tough socio-economic problems plaguing the nation.
Pope Francis, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has had a longstanding tolerance of and friendship for homosexuals, and yet rejection of marriage as anything other than a heterosexual institution.
The scale and spread of the coronavirus pandemic may make so-called ‘herd immunity’ virtually inevitable, but it can also prompt Argentina to integrate its scattered healthcare services into a single, national service.
A new documentary uncovers some disturbing truths about the unregulated networks that provide more than half of the horse meat that Europe consumes.
While the U.S.-China rivalry is not yet a repetition of the Cold War, it will have repercussions for Latin American states at a time of acute regional weakness.
Truth be told, the post-World World II frenzy for straight lines and exposed concrete never really left. But it has evolved, as demonstrated by Kouichi Kimura’s ‘Tranquil House’ in Japan.
Argentina must boost its scientific activities in the South Atlantic and maintain diplomatic pressures on Great Britain as part of its efforts to recover the Falklands.
The bombastic president seems to have little regard for precedence or decorum. But is he just an anomaly? And if not, what happens if he loses?
Argentines were hoping Alberto Fernández would be autonomous from his VP and former president Cristina Kirchner. But he’s beginning to look like the puppet that former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev was to Putin.
Desperate for a chance to boost the economy and create some much needed jobs, Buenos Aires is ready to sign off on what environmentalists call a ‘pandemics factory.’
In the early 1900s, the tuberculosis crisis inspired an outdoor-oriented education model that may be just what the doctor ordered in this new period of pandemic.
Protests, slumping economies and the clear erosion in some countries of democratic institutions plagued the region even before the pandemic hit. So what now?
The Covid-19 crisis is likely to reshape globalization while benefiting China and other ‘illiberal’ regimes.
Leaders like Trump and Bolsonaro don’t just bend the truth. By using lies as a consistent political tool, they try to destroy it — as did the fascist regimes of the last century.
Argentine food production is doing fine and needs no ‘progressive’ state intervention to assure supplies.
-OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — Anti-racism protestors who’ve demonstrated in recent weeks, and in countries all over the world, are taking their frustrations out on historic figures, toppling or defacing statues of people who embody past injustices. And one of the more typical targets in all this is the man who, back in 1492, famously sailed […]
The world’s prevailing trade system was facing major challenges even before the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean globalization is destined to die.
If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s that no one is safe until everyone is safe.
The Brazilian president’s antics were cause for alarm even before the deadly pandemic. But with the illness running rampant, the story is taking an ever darker turn.
U.S. President Donald Trump has failed spectacularly in his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But he’s not the only world leader coming up short.
Large cities like Buenos Aires are prepping for life after the lockdown and anticipating changes, among other things, in the ways people commute.
The pandemic is prompting changes in politics, culture and personal conduct. Could these shifts be glimpses of a better, post-pandemic society?
Forced confinement may be necessary to combat COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean people should blindly accept every order and decree.
Cuba could repay part of its $2 billion of debts to Argentina by sending some of its renowned medics to treat coronavirus patients in the Buenos Aires province.
The pandemic has been an eye-opener for the world’s urban centers, and could be an opportunity to make lasting changes.
The coronavirus plague has blatantly conveyed the reality, for better or worse, of a single, globalized space. When the pandemic dies down, expect new socio-cultural dynamics, and a redefinition of the state’s role.
While we see a general boost in solidarity, a small minority is looking to profit from the COVID-19 tragedy, feeding on a weakened and distracted society.
From long-distance pleasuring to hands-on stimulators, the 21st century adult toys market offers plenty of exciting options. Just don’t get hacked.
Mental health professionals in Argentina note an uptick in people seeking help, especially patients already struggling with issues like hypochondria and OCD.
Fear and uncertainty for both stable couples and courting. We know the virus is present in saliva drops, but it’s not clear whether it exists in other body fluids. But human behavior isn’t waiting for the science to find out.
The OPEC-Russia oil spat that has provoked stock-market panic may prove the last straw for a world economy on the verge of another recession.