Argentina's populist president meets billionaire Elon Musk in Texas โ and a bromance is born
Tech executive Elon Musk and Argentine President Javier Milei have sealed their budding bromance at a Tesla electric car factory in Texas โ their first meeting after months of mutual admiration on social media.
Argentina's police step up their response to growing anti-government protests
A confrontation between Argentine authorities and anti-government protesters outraged over President Javier Mileiโs deep cuts to state spending has escalated, as protesters blocking the capitalโs key thoroughfare were forcibly dispersed and eight of the movementโs participants arrested.
On the anniversary of the 1976 military coup, Argentines push back against leaders revising history
Argentinaโs annual March 24 commemoration of the 1976 military coup that ushered in the countryโs violent right-wing dictatorship is acquiring new urgency under the government of President Javier Milei.
Argentina inflation slows for a 2nd month as President Milei keeps pushing austerity measures
Argentinaโs inflation slowed down for a second consecutive month in February, as right-wing President Javier Milei continues to push austerity and deregulation measures in an effort to revive the countryโs struggling economy.
Argentina's president condemns threat by provincial governor to cut energy supplies in dispute
The government of Argentinaโs libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions.
Argentinian court overturns Milei's labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans
An Argentine court has overturned labor rules proposed by President Javier Milei that would make it easier to fire workers, in a new blow to the leaderโs efforts to shake up regulations that he says have hampered the countryโs struggling economy.
Argentinaโs president announces economy deregulation as thousands protest against austerity
Argentine President Javier Milei has announced sweeping initiatives to transform the countryโs struggling economy, including easing government regulation and allowing privatization of state-run industries as a way to boost exports and investment.
Fiery right-wing populist Javier Milei wins Argentina's presidency and promises 'drastic' changes
Right-wing populist Javier Milei will become the next president of Argentina after promising a dramatic shake-up to the state in a fiercely polarized election campaign held amid deep discontent over soaring inflation and rising poverty.
Unpublished works and manuscript by legendary Argentine writer Cortรกzar sell for $36,000 at auction
A buyer from Argentina has paid $36,000 for a manuscript of works, including seven unpublished stories, by legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortรกzar at an auction in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.
Argentina shuts down a publisher that sold books praising the Nazis. One person has been arrested
Argentinaโs Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person as part of what authorities characterized as a โhistoric seizureโ of Nazi propaganda.
James Cameron feels he 'walked into an ambush' in Argentine lithium dispute
Movie director James Cameron says he feels he โwalked into an ambushโ this week during a visit to Argentina in which he believes there was an attempt to use his image as an environmentalist to give a positive spin to lithium mining operations despite opposition from Indigenous communities.
Argentina soccer team abandons parade amid swarms of people
A parade to celebrate the Argentine World Cup champions was abruptlly cut short as millions of people poured onto thoroughfares, highways and overpasses in a chaotic attempt to catch a glimpse of the national team that won one of the greatest World Cup finals of all time.
Argentines wake up dreaming of World Cup glory in Qatar
Argentines woke up ready to watch the national team play for its third World Cup title amid a national feeling of unity and joy that is rare for a country that has been engulfed in an economic crisis for years and has one of the worst inflation rates in the world.
Higher fuel prices spark social unrest in South America
Dozens of trucks were blocked from entering Buenos Aires as part of growing demonstrations against diesel shortages in the latest example of growing fuel protests in South America amid higher international prices as a result of Russiaโs war in Ukraine.
As US poised to restrict abortion, other nations ease access
As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to access abortion services, courts in other parts of the world, including in many historically conservative societies, have moved in the opposite direction.
In Pope's homeland, ex-priest leaves church over gay unions
Gioeni, who left the priesthood 20 years ago and married in 2014, said he has decided to formally leave the church after the Vatican decreed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God cannot bless sin. I am not renouncing my faith in God but rather I am renouncing a role and a rite,โ said Gioeni, 49. Born in Mendoza province some 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) west of Buenos Aires, Gioeni pursued a religious vocation as a young man despite being tormented by doubts about his sexuality. โIt was a defense.โAfter ordination he rose quickly in the provincial church, while secretly exploring chatrooms for the local gay community. In recent years Gioeni has become an LGBTQ activist lobbying for a more open Catholic Church.
Buenos Aires reopens as virus surge forces Sao Paulo to shut
That means Buenos Aires' famed steakhouses are reigniting their fires, while counterparts in Sao Paulo extinguish theirs. The 48,000-seat NeoQuimica arena on the east side of Sao Paulo is being used as a vaccination post. Izidoro Silveira, 34, got a job waiting tables at a pizzeria in downtown Sao Paulo two months ago after almost a full year unemployed. But the overwhelming gloom seen in Sao Paulo seems to be far from Buenos Aires. Thereโs still a long way to go, but little by little weโre getting where we wanted.โ___ Rey reported from Buenos Aires.
Virus surge forces Sao Paulo to shut as Buenos Aires reopens
That means Buenos Aires' famed steakhouses are reigniting their fires, while counterparts in Sao Paulo extinguish theirs. The 48,000-seater NeoQuimica arena on the east side of Sao Paulo is being used as a vaccination post. Izidoro Silveira, 34, got a job waiting tables at a pizzeria in downtown Sao Paulo two months ago, after almost a full year unemployed. But the overwhelming gloom seen in Sao Paulo seems to be far from Buenos Aires. Thereโs still a long way to go, but little by little weโre getting where we wanted.โ___ Rey reported from Buenos Aires.
Nicaragua approves Russian COVID-19 vaccine
A nurse shows to the press a vial of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign inside River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)MANAGUA โ Nicaraguaโs government said Wednesday that it had approved Russiaโs Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. โNicaragua is advancing in its negotiations with Russia to supplyโ the vaccine, said the government outlet El 19 Digital. It was the first vaccine approved in Nicaragua, which still awaits its first doses. Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela are among other left-leaning governments in the hemisphere that have approved the vaccine.
Argentina's abortion law enters force under watchful eyes
The abortion law goes into force Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)BUENOS AIRES โ Argentinaโs groundbreaking abortion law went into force Sunday under the watchful eyes of womenโs groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from some conservative and church groups. Supporters of the law say they expect lawsuits from anti-abortion groups in Argentinaโs conservative provinces and some private health clinics might refuse to carry out the procedure. The lawโs supporters expect backlash in Argentinaโs conservative provinces. Gรณmez Alcorta said criminal charges currently pending against more than 1,500 women and doctors who performed abortions should be lifted.
Foreign nationals traveling to Houston and other cities to get vaccinated
HOUSTON โ Oren Murphy is a former minesweeper for the U.S. Navy and 60 years later, he is navigating the deadly challenge of COVID-19. KPRC 2 Investigates discovered foreign nationals who have traveled to Houston and elsewhere are getting vaccinated. Dr. Joseph Varon of United Memorial Medical Center says he first heard of foreign nationals receiving vaccines intended for Texans here in Houston at the end of last month. Following a roundtable meeting with public officials on Tuesday, we asked Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom about foreign nationals out of the county on hospital databases who are receiving vaccines. Back home in Houston, Boom told KPRC 2 Investigates, โThere have been 60,000 people vaccinated.
Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope's native Argentina
Abortion-rights activists watch live video streaming of lawmakers in session, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Congress approved a bill that legalize abortion in Argentina. โSafe, legal and free abortion is now the law,โ Fernรกndez tweeted after the vote, noting that it had been an election pledge. The generational shift was reflected in the stance taken by Vice President Fernรกndez de Kirchner. Argentinaโs feminist movement has been demanding legal abortion for more than 30 years and activists say the billโs approval could mark a watershed in Latin America, where the Catholic Church has long dominated.
Argentine Senate weighs fate of abortion in pope's homeland
A previous abortion bill was voted down by lawmakers in 2018, but this time it was being backed by the center-left government. โThis is vote by vote. Argentinaโs feminist movement has been demanding legal abortion for more than 30 years and activists say the bill's approval could mark a watershed in Latin America, where the Roman Catholic Church's influence has long dominated. But we still donโt have legal abortion. It would allow conscientious refusal to participate in an abortion for health professionals and private medical institutions at which all doctors are against the procedure.
Argentina looks to add more transgenders to labor force
Transgender women celebrate Pride Day at the Hotel Gondolin where they live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. In September, President Alberto Fernรกndez signed a decree establishing a 1% employment quota for transgender people in the public sector. Only neighboring Uruguay has a comparable quota law promoting the labor inclusion of transgenders, who face discrimination in the region. But LGBT organizations estimate there are 12,000 to 13,000 transgender adults in Argentina, which has a population topping 44 million. Transgender women come and go from the shared bathrooms to their rooms.
Argentina's lower house approves bill legalizing abortion
Abortion-rights activists celebrate as Argentine lower house approves a bill that would legalize abortion outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The bill still needs approval from the countryโs Senate in a debate expected before the end of the year. While the bill passed the lower house, the outlook is less clear in the country's Senate. The bill approved Friday follows more than a decade of campaigning by the National Campaign for the Right to Free and Safe Legal Abortion. In hopes of winning more votes, legislators who support the bill made last-minute changes to the text that would allow private clinics in which all medical workers oppose abortion rights to refrain from providing the procedure.
Argentine congress debates abortion rights; activists gather
Abortion-rights activists rally outside Congress as lawmakers debate a bill on its legalization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The lower house is expected to vote on a legal abortion bill presented by President Alberto Fernndez. It is a historic demand and it has to do with solving a public health problem,โ Laura Salomรฉ, an abortion rights activist, said outside congress. Abortion rights and anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in separate, designated areas under tight security. Minors under 16 years old who seek an abortion can exercise โtheir rights through their legal representatives,โ according to the bill.
Investigators search doctor's office, probing Maradona death
Neurologist Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona's former personal doctor, talks with journalists at his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Dr. Luque's house and offices were raided Sunday in the midst of investigations to establish the circumstances of the death of Maradona. Neurologist Leopoldo Luque told reporters after the searches that he had given investigators all of the records of his treatment of Maradona, as well as computers, hard drives and cellphones. Weeping at times, he insisted he defended his treatment of the troubled soccer star, who died Wednesday of a heart attack following a Nov. 3 brain operation. Maradona had suffered a series of medical problems, some due to excesses of drugs and alcohol.
3 funeral workers fired over Maradona coffin photos
BUENOS AIRES โ Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of soccer star Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral. The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death threats, across a nation that venerated Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60. Claudio Fernรกndez confirmed to Radio Diez that he'd lost his job at the Pinier funeral home, along with his son Ismael and Claudio Medina. One of the images shows Fernรกndez and his son โ smiling and with thumb raised โ alongside Maradona's body in the coffin on Thursday. I'm from the neighborhood," Fernรกndez said.
Argentines bid a raucous farewell to Maradona amid clashes
Mourners embrace as they wait to see Diego Maradona lying in state outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Argentine soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup died Wednesday at the age of 60. Fans waving Argentine flags had gathered along roads as Maradonaโs funeral car drove by under heavy security. The crowd overwhelmed organizers and the violence resulted in injuries and arrests, which led Maradona's family to end the public visitation. He remained idolized in the soccer-mad nation as the โPibe de Oroโ or โGolden Boy.โMany fans proudly displayed Maradona tattoos.
Argentine police evict protesters occupying contested land
Police destroy shack homes as they carry out the eviction of a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)GUERNICA โ Argentine police clashed with a group of protesters on Thursday while evicting them from makeshift homes on a contested property south of the capital, Buenos Aires. The owners of the occupied land in Guernica had gone to court to reclaim the property. Many people left peacefully when security forces entered the property early Thursday after negotiations between authorities and the occupants failed.
Argentina passes 1 million cases as virus hits Latin America
Argentina reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, according to the Ministry of Health. But as Argentina passed 1 million virus cases Monday, it is now smaller cities like Ushuaia that are seeing some of the most notable upticks. Argentina has seen cases spiral despite instituting one of the worldโs longest lockdowns. โWe had a plateau.โThroughout the region, testing remains a hurdle. Brazil reached 1 million cases in June and now is up to 5.2 million for the pandemic.
Argentina hits 1 million cases as virus slams Latin America
Argentina reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, according to the Ministry of Health. But as Argentina passed 1 million virus cases Monday, it is now smaller cities like Ushuaia that are seeing some of the most notable upticks. Argentina has seen cases spiral despite instituting one of the worldโs longest lockdowns. โWe had a plateau.โThroughout the region, testing remains a hurdle. Brazil reached 1 million cases in June and now is up to 5.2 million for the pandemic.
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Argentine cartoonist Quino, creator of 'Mafalda' comic, dies
FILE - In this May 21, 2014 file photo, Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, better known as "Quino," gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)BUENOS AIRES โ Joaquรญn Salvador Lavado, an Argentine cartoonist better known as โQuinoโณ whose satirical comic strip about a socially conscious girl named Mafalda with a loathing for soup found fans across Latin America, Europe and beyond, died Wednesday. The comic strip was introduced to Europe by Italian writer Umberto Eco and was eventually translated into two-dozen languages, the website said. While Quino stopped drawing Mafalda regularly in the 1970s, the comic strip remained popular and he periodically drew it again, including for a campaign with UNICEF about adequate medical care for children and other rights. One image shows the girl Mafalda at the head of a line of children in front of a nurse.
Nerves fray in Argentina, where some flout pandemic lockdown
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)BUENOS AIRES In Argentina's capital, authorities closed a bar after customers were seen drinking beer on the sidewalk in violation of pandemic lockdown measures. Some Buenos Aires stores flouted a ban to stay shut, saying online sales are inadequate. Argentina was struggling economically long before the pandemic; isolation measures deepened the pain. With more than 260,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, Argentina is among the top 10 countries contributing the most new cases to the global tally since July 22, according to Johns Hopkins data through Monday. Lopardo acknowledged, though, that it was hard to get the entire population to go along with the strict lockdown.
Human foosball: New form of soccer developed for pandemic
Men play soccer at a local club, Play Futbol 5, in Pergamino, Argentina, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Dubbed metegol humano, or human foosball, the system designed for the coronavirus pandemic involves dividing the field with white chalk into 12 rectangles and restricting each player to a defined space. The ball can be passed across rectangles, and players can dribble inside their areas. Now I feel free and happy, getting together again with friends and playing soccer, said Martn Rodrguez, a defender from Vende Humo FC. Before each game, players must clean their shoes and hands and sign an affidavit on the state of their health.