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A new champion and a record-breaker in a historic week for Argentine tennis

A new champion and a record-breaker in a historic week for Argentine tennis

Argentine tennis ended a record-breaking week on Sunday, as a trio of male players became the first to feature in the finals of three top-level...

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Kast visits Milei in first international trip as president of Chile

Kast visits Milei in first international trip as president of Chile

Argentine President Javier Milei is sharing a bilateral meeting with Chilean leader José Antonio Kast, who chose the neighboring country for his...

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Martina Jaureguy

Peru to vote for president amid deep political crisis: here’s what you need to know

Peru to vote for president amid deep political crisis: here’s what you need to know

Peru will vote for a new president on April 12, amid a deep political and institutional crisis. The Andean country held its last presidential...

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Martina Jaureguy

Beauty and happiness: Fernanda Laguna’s retrospective in MALBA

Beauty and happiness: Fernanda Laguna’s retrospective in MALBA

“I didn’t want to be creative; I didn’t intend to create anything. I just wanted to follow the path of my own desire. So I started using my...

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Agustín Mango

Salmon farming is coming to the end of the world

Salmon farming is coming to the end of the world

This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. Cover image: Sea lions rest on rocks in the...

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Nadia luna

Argentine microsatellite released in space during Artemis II mission breaks record

Argentine microsatellite released in space during Artemis II mission breaks record

An Argentine microsatellite that traveled into space as part of the United States’ Moon exploration mission Artemis II established communication...

03.04.2026 30

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Martina Jaureguy

How Narda Lepes’ seedlings have truly taken root

How Narda Lepes’ seedlings have truly taken root

When Narda Lepes showed me around Narda Comedor eight years ago, we moved into the kitchen and I distinctly remember her pointedly saying: “And...

03.04.2026 30

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Sorrel Moseley-Williams

Get Out!: Rock, resistance, dancing…and tapas!

Get Out!: Rock, resistance, dancing…and tapas!

Buenos Aires cultural scene — certainly as resilient as the city’s humidity — offers a powerful blend of history and celebration this long...

01.04.2026 40

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Agustín Mango

Argentina’s chief of staff under fire over new allegations of corruption

Argentina’s chief of staff under fire over new allegations of corruption

Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni is now under scrutiny for several corruption accusations, including the alleged improper purchase of several real estate...

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Facundo Iglesia

Poverty drops to 28.2%, the lowest in seven years

Poverty drops to 28.2%, the lowest in seven years

Poverty in Argentina fell to 28.2% in the second semester of 2025, according to a report released on Tuesday by the government’s statistics...

01.04.2026 60

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Facundo Iglesia

Government to change human rights undersecretary again after just three months

Government to change human rights undersecretary again after just three months

The Argentine government will appoint Leonardo Szuchet as the new human rights undersecretary this week to replace Joaquín Mogaburu, who has only...

31.03.2026 50

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Martina Jaureguy

AFA President Claudio Tapia charged over alleged tax evasion

AFA President Claudio Tapia charged over alleged tax evasion

A Buenos Aires City court specializing in economic crimes has formally charged  the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio...

31.03.2026 50

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Vanesa Petrillo

Federal court temporarily suspends most of Milei’s labor reform

Federal court temporarily suspends most of Milei’s labor reform

A federal labor court suspended several articles of the government-backed labor reform that Congress passed last month. The government already...

31.03.2026 40

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Facundo Iglesia

Birdwatching in Argentina: Mar de Ansenuza

Birdwatching in Argentina: Mar de Ansenuza

Mar de Ansenuza (often called Laguna Mar Chiquita) sits at the heart of the Ansenuza wetland complex and the Ansenuza National Park & Reserve in...

29.03.2026 60

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Martin Eayrs

Three startups run by Argentine women that aim to transform entire industries

Three startups run by Argentine women that aim to transform entire industries

At an event organized in Buenos Aires by two accelerators that aim to encourage a larger presence of women in male-dominated businesses, three young...

29.03.2026 50

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Facundo Iglesia

Institution key to finding babies stolen by dictatorship suffers 60% budget cut under Milei

Institution key to finding babies stolen by dictatorship suffers 60% budget cut under Milei

President Javier Milei’s austerity policies have hit one of the main pillars in Argentina’s fight to find and identify those who were...

28.03.2026 40

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Martina Jaureguy

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso’s ‘Free Spirits’: a thrilling journey of post-burnout rebirth

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso’s ‘Free Spirits’: a thrilling journey of post-burnout rebirth

Argentine duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso love to spin a good tale, construct concept albums and release ambitious long-form videos that showcase their...

27.03.2026 40

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Marcelo Fernández Bitar

As wallets shrink, Buenos Aires’ fine dining weathers the storm

As wallets shrink, Buenos Aires’ fine dining weathers the storm

Argentine fine dining was introduced to the global stage in 2023, when the Michelin Guide launched its first guide to the country’s restaurants. The...

27.03.2026 40

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Agustín Mango

BREAKING: YPF case: U.S. court reverses US$16 billion sentence against Argentina

BREAKING: YPF case: U.S. court reverses US$16 billion sentence against Argentina

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York overturned a lower court’s ruling in the prolonged trial over the expropriation of the...

27.03.2026 50

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Facundo Iglesia

Bounced checks due to insufficient funds reach pandemic levels

Bounced checks due to insufficient funds reach pandemic levels

The number of checks rejected due to insufficient funds in the first two months of 2026 reached levels similar to those seen during the Covid-19...

26.03.2026 50

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Carlos Lamiral

Glacier law modification debate kicks off with a 400-person public hearing

Glacier law modification debate kicks off with a 400-person public hearing

Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies has opened its first public hearing on the controversial reform of the Glacier Law, approved by the upper house last...

26.03.2026 60

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Facundo Iglesia

Franco Colapinto to showcase F1 car in Buenos Aires in April

Argentine racing driver Franco Colapinto will run with a Formula 1 car in Buenos Aires for the very first time. Sources in the Buenos Aires City...

25.03.2026 50

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Argentines call for memory, truth and justice 50 years since the last military coup

Human rights organizations, unions, social groups and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential...

25.03.2026 60

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Martina Jaureguy

The Abuelas created a movement. Their grandchildren are ready to carry the torch

It was April 1977 when the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who were searching for their sons and daughters kidnapped by the dictatorship,...

24.03.2026 50

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Cocó Muro

March 24, 1976: the day Argentina’s darkest period began

It was the early hours of Wednesday, March 24, 1976. Outside, it was dark. Sunrise was still several hours away when the voice on the radio made the...

24.03.2026 60

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Martina Jaureguy

Argentina to host Mauritania and Zambia: what can we expect?

Mauritania and Zambia will be the Argentine men’s national football team rivals in its last friendly matches ahead of the World Cup, the Argentine...

23.03.2026 70

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Escape from a dictatorship death camp: the story of Jaime Dri

When Jaime Dri realized he was being held at the ESMA death camp, one thing became very clear to him: he would never make it out alive.  It was late...

23.03.2026 60

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Agustín Mango

The Operation Condor files: the poet who led a global search for his granddaughter

The Herald is publishing a special series to mark 50 years since the Operation Condor agreement was signed. The pieces can be viewed on this link....

22.03.2026 50

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Juan Decima

How the military laundered stolen desaparecidos’ goods

The scene is at the end of the film. Sheltered by darkness, Swiss banker Yvan de Weil patiently listens to an Argentine Army colonel thoroughly going...

21.03.2026 60

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Facundo Iglesia

(Dis)Appear, a film about memory, photography, and the Argentine dictatorship

Piotr Cieplak is an author, academic and award-winning filmmaker based in London Repurposed domestic photos of the disappeared have long been one of...

21.03.2026 70

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Piotr Cieplak

Empty stands: How the Military Junta left a football club without its fanbase

Football clubs are inextricably linked with the neighborhood around them, where murals and graffiti let you know you’re in their home, a holy ground...

20.03.2026 60

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

2026 Copa Libertadores & Copa Sudamericana draws: Who are the Argentine teams facing?

The draws for the 2026 Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana were held on Thursday, with several Argentine teams learning who they’ll be up...

20.03.2026 70

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Employment plummets in 2025 as economy rises due to more informal work

Unemployment in Argentina went up to 7.5% in the last quarter of 2025. The number is 1.1 percentage points higher than the same period of 2024 and...

19.03.2026 60

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Martina Jaureguy

Scaloni shakes up player list ahead of last 2026 World Cup preparation game

Argentina’s men’s national football team head coach Lionel Scaloni announced the list of players called up for the team’s friendly match against...

19.03.2026 50

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

How Argentine rock stood up to the dictatorship and gained massive popularity

Fifty years after the military coup of March 24, 1976, the rock scene in Argentina has grown to a dimension that nobody could have ever foreseen....

19.03.2026 60

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Marcelo Fernández Bitar

A new record for Lionel Messi as he reaches 900 goals as a professional

Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi reached 900 goals as a professional player on Wednesday. The Argentina and Inter Miami captain became the...

19.03.2026 50

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

50 years on, most Argentines support continuing dictatorship trials

Seven out of ten Argentines have a negative opinion of the last military dictatorship and believe that those who committed atrocities need to continue...

18.03.2026 70

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Martina Jaureguy

Soda Stereo sparks frenzy with 30-date arena tour

In a plot twist somehow similar to ABBA’s record-breaking hologram show Voyage in London, legendary Argentine pop rock band Soda Stereo will perform...

16.03.2026 70

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Marcelo Fernández Bitar

Franco Colapinto scores first-ever Alpine points in China. What comes next?

Argentine race driver Franco Colapinto accomplished a major feat in last Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, earning his first-ever Formula 1 Drivers’...

16.03.2026 60

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

It’s official: 2026 Finalissima is canceled

The 2026 Finalissima has been officially canceled, after Argentina and Spain — the winners of the Copa América and the Eurocopa, respectively —...

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Argentina warms to pickleball’s social game

There is a new sport growing in Argentina, and no, it’s not the 90s revival of padel — it’s pickleball. A quick, social sport that blends...

15.03.2026 30

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Chloe wellington-hunt

Government looks to move on from Adorni scandal amid speculation over friendly fire

The controversy surrounding Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni over his wife’s trip to the United States as part of the presidential delegation escalated...

15.03.2026 50

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Cecilia Camarano

The four main takeaways from Argentina Week in New York

Argentina Week, a New York City event organized by the Argentine government to attract foreign investment, wrapped up on Friday after a week of...

14.03.2026 70

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Facundo Iglesia

Identities of two dictatorship victims found in La Perla detention center announced

The identities of two of the 12 dictatorship victims identified during excavations at the former clandestine detention center known as La Perla in...

13.03.2026 70

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Martina Jaureguy

New complaint filed against Adorni over alleged illicit enrichment

A new criminal complaint has been filed against Argentina’s Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorni, alleging illicit enrichment in connection with a private...

12.03.2026 60

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Vanesa Petrillo

AFA president Claudio Tapia appears in court: ‘We complied with what the judge ordered’

Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia appeared in front of the court on Thursday after he was summoned for...

12.03.2026 70

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Argentina strikes settlement with holdout funds over 2001 defaulted debt

The Argentine government submitted a letter to Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York announcing a settlement in principle with...

11.03.2026 80

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Facundo Iglesia

Lollapalooza Argentina 2026: all you need to know

Since 2014, Argentine music fans have enjoyed the local version of the famed festival Lollapalooza, created by alt-rocker Perry Farrell in 1991 in the...

11.03.2026 100

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Marcelo Fernández Bitar

Diego Maradona’s death trial postponed again

The trial over the death of Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona has been postponed once more.  Initially set to start on March 17, the new...

11.03.2026 80

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Fernando Romero Nuñez

Forensic anthropologists identify 12 bodies found in dictatorship detention center

The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, for its Spanish initials) has identified 12 bodies that were found during an excavation at the site...

11.03.2026 70

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Martina Jaureguy