Argentina

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

‘I feel at home here’: descendants of Galicia’s émigrés return to the old country

Spain’s poor western region is welcoming back heirs of those who once left it – especially from troubled Argentina

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

03, Jan, 2023 @10:00 AM

The Guardian view on Latin America’s left leaders: pink tide could lift all boats | Editorial

Editorial: The region’s politicians need a different model to deal with social unrest and political instability

Editorial

30, Dec, 2022 @6:30 PM

Blue and white euphoria grips Buenos Aires after Argentina’s World Cup win

More than a million people were in the streets of Buenos Aires celebrating the victory, according to estimates from authorities

Amy Booth in Buenos Aires

19, Dec, 2022 @5:19 PM

The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution

Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’

Kate Hennessy

19, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM

‘Like paradise’: Argentina erupts in celebration of World Cup win

Streets of central Buenos Aires are a cacophony of yelling and horns after shootout victory against France