News of 20 years on

World's 'oldest' tree able to reveal planet's secrets

24-04-2023 10:40 In a forest in southern Chile, protected from fires and logging that decimated the species, a giant alerce tree has survived for thousands of years. Scientists see in its trunk a valuable record of how life adapts to the changes on the planet.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

A country which always depends on the rain

04-04-2023 11:08 While rainfall at times this year has eased the panorama, losses of US$12 billion to US$15 billion are forecast for Argentina's export earnings due to drought. An analysis of the last 70 years indicates that climatic phenomena like La Niña can strongly affect Argentina’s economy and damage sitting governments, as poor harvests did for Fernando de la Rúa (2000-2001), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2008-2009) and Mauricio Macri (2017-2018). What could happen in the October elections?

10 YEARS OF POPE FRANCIS

Catholic faithful celebrate decade of Francis' papacy in Luján

12-03-2023 09:18 Thousands of Catholic faithful gathered Saturday in Luján to celebrate 10 years of Francis' papacy on Saturday as festivities in honour of the Buenos Aires-born pontiff got underway.

10 YEARS OF POPE FRANCIS

Popular but facing opposition, Pope Francis marks 10 years as pontiff

12-03-2023 09:07 Pope Francis marks 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday, hugely popular but facing internal dissent after a decade of reform, even if he has left basic doctrine intact.

LITERATURE

Colombian devoted to 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

27-10-2022 08:29 Colombian Jorge Ivan Salazar has collected copies of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by compatriot author Gabriel Garcia Marquez for 16 years.

'El Milagro de los Andes' – 50 years on

'Alive': Uruguay plane crash survivors savour life 50 years on

12-10-2022 23:03 On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying an amateur Uruguayan rugby team, along with relatives and supporters, to an away match in Chile crashed in the Andes with 45 people on board. Sixteen young men managed to survive for 72 days, in sub-zero temperatures and with very little food, before two found help after a 10-day trek across the mountains in waist-deep snow.

MALVINAS: 40 YEARS ON

Forty years on, Malvinas claim remains as fresh as ever

01-04-2022 21:42 As the country prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1982 South Atlantic War, the islands remain fresh in every Argentine’s mind.

MALVINAS: 40 YEARS ON

Argentina's dictatorship dug its own grave with Malvinas ‘military adventure’

01-04-2022 20:47 The junta's gambit was initially successful, yet the misadventure ultimately failed to breathe new life into the dictatorship floundering under mass human rights violations, social unrest and economic crisis, serving instead to precipitate its demise.

MALVINAS: 40 YEARS ON

Former soldier reveals torture during Malvinas conflict

01-04-2022 20:09 Argentine combatants suffered shocking conditions and even torture during the 1982 South Atlantic War – but it was inflicted by their own officers.

Trip of a lifetime

Argentine family arrives home after 22-year drive around the world

13-03-2022 17:18 The Zapp family arrive back in Buenos Aires after finishing a 22 year-journey around the world that started on January 23, 2000.

ONCE RAIL CRASH: 10 YEARS ON

A decade on, relatives of Once tragedy victims reiterate call for justice

22-02-2022 16:31 Relatives of the deceased and survivors of the 2012 Once train crash this week reiterated their calls for justice, demanding that those convicted of crimes be made to serve their full jail terms.

REMEMBRANCE

Argentines commemorate 20th anniversary of 2001 crisis at Plaza de Mayo

20-12-2021 12:57 December 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the so-called 'corralito,' which led to protests and riots that ended up in then-president Fernando De la Rúa's resignation from office.

TWO DECADES ON

Argentines recall nation’s worst ever crisis, 20 years on

18-12-2021 08:48 This weekend marks two decades since Argentina's worst-ever financial crisis, which was accompanied by a period of civil and political unrest and rioting across the nation.

GUEST VOICE

20 years on from 2001, society has yet to find a balance

18-12-2021 08:30 Social demands multiply in a scenario like the present day and might reach that level of social fatigue before reaching the 20 percent unemployment then.

by Guido Lorenzo

International football

Uruguay sack coach Tabárez after record-breaking 15-year run

20-11-2021 08:11 Óscar Tabárez has been dismissed as coach of the Uruguayan national football team, the national federation said in a statement, ending the manager's 15-year tenure at the helm of the national team.

9/11: 20 YEARS ON

'Total failure': The war on terror 20 years on

26-08-2021 13:57 The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 were the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries. It ruptured America's sense of safety and plunged the West into war in Afghanistan – a military operation that is only now just concluding.

COMMUNITY

Descendants of Welsh settlers mark 156 years in Patagonia

27-07-2021 22:14 In Gaiman, descendants of the first Welsh setters in Patagonia prepare to celebrate 156 years since the arrival of their ancestors on the shores of the Golfo Nuevo.

church sex abuse

Priest sentenced to 12 years in jail for three counts of sexual abuse

13-07-2021 16:43 Rubén Agustín Rosa Torino, 67, sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Salta court for three counts of sexual abuse against victims following a six-week trial.

CCP CENTENARY

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China at 100th birthday of Communist Party

01-07-2021 11:28 In the summer of 1921 Mao and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai founded the Communist Party, which has since morphed into one of the world's most powerful political organisations. It now counts around 95 million members, garnered over a century of war, famine and turmoil, and more recently a surge to superpower status butting up against Western rivals, led by the United States.