Argentina
Condor’s Nest review – Tarantino-esque Nazi-hunt thriller heads for the pampas
Director Phil Blattenberger wears his love for the genre on his sleeve, but this allows him to outrun the film’s uneven execution and loose plot
Phil Hoad
13, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
‘An everyday thing’: a fatal beating reveals Argentina’s racist bias
Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was killed by men who screamed racist slurs as they kicked him to death
Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires
21, Feb, 2023 @10:30 AM
Weather tracker: world braces for sudden stratospheric warming event
SSW phenomenon is linked to polar vortex, an area of low pressure across the North Pole
Matt Andrews (Metdesk)
17, Feb, 2023 @9:38 AM
Crackdown on ‘birth tourism’ as pregnant Russians flock to Argentina
South American country has seen rise since Ukraine invasion in Russian women arriving to have children and thus gain citizenship
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
10, Feb, 2023 @9:43 PM
‘My mother said, I still love the general, but he has to go to jail’: Luis Moreno Ocampo on Argentina 1985
The notable former prosecutor in The Hague talks about the courtroom drama showing the legal takedown of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship, which is tipped for an Oscar
Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
09, Feb, 2023 @10:30 AM
Argentinian rugby players sentenced to life in prison over teen’s murder
Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was attacked outside nightclub in what family see as racially motivated attack
Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires
06, Feb, 2023 @6:51 PM
Weather tracker: extremes of heat and cold hit South and North America
Conditions in parts of South America up to 10C above average as US records its coldest ever temperature
Alice Fowle and Matt Andrews (Metdesk)
06, Feb, 2023 @9:53 AM
Deforestation piles pressure on South America’s elusive Chacoan peccary
With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort in Argentina is fighting for its future
Patrick Greenfield
31, Jan, 2023 @9:30 AM
The Substitute review – vehement inspiring-teacher thriller is all a bit Mr Chips
A poet in Buenos Aires takes up teaching at a tough school and tries to protect his students in Diego Lerman’s cliched, if well-acted, tale
Peter Bradshaw
17, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
Adopted by their parents’ enemies: tracing the stolen children of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
After the 1976 coup, the military brutally crushed its opponents. At least 500 babies were taken from their captured parents and given to military couples to raise. Many still live unaware of their true identity
Lorenzo Tondo, Elena Basso in Buenos Aires and Sam Jones in Madrid
16, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM
Daniel Catovsky obituary
Other lives: Blood cancer specialist who helped to develop treatments for various types of leukaemia
Michael Catovsky
06, Jan, 2023 @6:18 PM
‘Everyone is looking for options’: Russian women fly to Argentina to give birth
South American country is experiencing a boom in birth tourism, as Russians make use of rare visa-free travel
Pjotr Sauer
03, Jan, 2023 @1:18 PM
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