While Mexico lurches left and Brazil shifts right, Argentina, under Mauricio Macri, will try to stay a centrist course — at least until next year’s presidential elections.
Source: CLARIN
Clarin is the largest newspaper in Argentina. It was founded in August 1945 and is based in Buenos Aires.
Argentine law has followed social evolution and now recognizes individuals who formally declare their intention to undertake the duties of parenting as legal parents.
Post-modern design captures our cultural moment’s yearning for unique and inspiring objects, even if they are of little use. The French master pours it all into his legendarily inefficient lemon juice squeezer.
The Brazilian president-elect’s plans for his first foreign trips offer just one clue to neighbors about how regional alliances are set to be turned on their heads.
The tendency of politicians in Latin America (and beyond) to cite Christ in their speeches may indicate both megalomania and contempt for institutional democracy.
Older LGBT people have lived to see dramatic improvements in how society treats sexual minorities. But scars remain.
Forget nylon!. Local clothing lines like Animaná are rediscovering all-natural fibers such as lama and linen, and even producing fabrics the old-fashioned way.
There’s something strangely familiar about the 99 images on display at the Abadía Art and Latin American Studies Center in Buenos Aires.
Jair Bolsonaro’s triumph in the first round of the presidential election is worrisome, but a simple response to economic hard times and a corrupt political class.
A pair of agro-engineers from Argentina are helping a U.S. company boost crop yields in Uganda, and help local, small-scale farmers in the process.
A worsening economy in Argentina may cause political shifts before the 2019 presidential elections.
Uber still has plenty of critics in Argentina, but its clearing key legal hurdles is a sign that there’s no turning back the clock on a digitally-driven marketplace.
With inflation on the rise, some pundits say the South American country should say adios to its faltering peso.
Latin Americans call it the Movimiento Gordo, accepting weight differences as a way to resist a mass consensus typical of our time. One Argentine author offers her portrait.
The information storage technology can safeguard entire transaction histories and allow firms and consumers to see where food ingredients came from — and fast.
The Argentine pontiff, used to navigating politics in Buenos Aires, is battling at a whole different level now. And his papacy may hang in the balance.
In his most recent book, best-selling author Paulo Coelho revisits his nomadic past, when he embarked from Brazil on a voyage that took him all the way to Kathmandu.
BUENOS AIRES — Facebook irritates me, entertains, consoles, bores and infuriates me, moves and depresses me — but above all, it exhausts me. Rewind to 2008, and I am in Pittsburgh working in a migrant help center. My Belgian friend Marie enters the office with her laptop and shows me a new platform where you […]
Avant-garde art projected itself through provocation in the 20th century, but has provocation simply become a great marketing ploy for artists?
After decades of dictatorship, democracy in Latin America seemed destined to take root through the 1990s. But from Brazil to Nicaragua, things can change quickly.
The world can do a lot better than incarcerate migrants en masse, or turn away boatloads of desperate passengers, argues former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.
As Uber and Cabify continue to carry passengers in Argentina despite a court ban, some taxi drivers have decided to take matters into their own hands.
A waste processing center in the Argentine capital turns almost half the city’s refuse into reusable materials such as compost, wood chips and plastic pellets.
Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials have very different needs and expectations regarding workspaces. And yet, in many companies they’re expected to work side-by-side.
The global soccer competition features teams from a fascinating mix of developed and developing nations. Not represented are the world’s two leading economies: the U.S. and China.
Governments in several Latin American states are facing angry voters who may remove them from power, but perhaps of greater concern is the spreading wrath against all politicians, everywhere.
-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — As then President Juan Domingo Perón made clear in a 1951 speech, concerns in Argentina over the price of the U.S. dollar are nothing new. “I ask you this,” he said. “Why do you want dollars? Who’s ever seen a dollar?” Perón posed the question to political opponents who were complaining […]
-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — The end of the Cold War ushered in a new phase in military relations between the United States and Latin America. As the region’s dictatorships gave way to more democratic systems, and border disputes waned, the Pentagon, starting in the early 1990s, urged Latin American governments to restore civilian control over […]
The Macri administration should take a hard look at its own economic policies and stop blaming the Kirchner governments that preceded it. Otherwise, the same story will repeat.
Robotization, AI and other technological advances will change the nature of work in the coming decades. How will it play out in poorer parts of the world?
Latin American states, as major sea-trading nations that are also vulnerable to climate change, must act now to find ways to curb shipping pollution.
The U.S. trade deficits that have prompted the Trump administration to raise tariffs have a result of the universal use of dollars and are unrelated to ‘unjust’ trading practices.
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It’s Time To Stop Demonizing Big Data
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Scientists are investigating why 68 dolphins — most of which were dead —washed ashore this week in the central province of Chubut.
In Argentina, one of the world’s biggest citrus producers is recycling its farming waste as fuel and fertilizers.
The U.S. president will cast a long shadow over the upcoming Summit of the Americas gathering in Lima, Peru — even if he decides not to show up.
Prospects of a rising dollar in 2018 could push developing countries like Argentina to take conservative measures like raising interest rates and curbing deficits.
Planning experts from Denmark and the U.S. tasked with redesigning a Buenos Aires shantytown were surprised by some of its built-in people-friendly dynamics, which can be applied elsewhere — even in upscale projects
Their close cuts, unusual trims and friendly demeanor have made Dominican barbers a hit in the Argentine capital, after making their name in the U.S. and Europe.