News of anger

Political tension soar as anger builds against body bags protest

02-03-2021 21:29 Fernández and government officials clash with opposition figureheads on social media in wake of last Saturday's anti-government protest, as president condemns use of body bags at rally condemning 'VIP vaccine' scandal.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentine judge orders chlorine dioxide be given to Covid patient

11-01-2021 16:28 Outrage as judge compels private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide to a coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors have labelled "a scandal."

US ELECTION 2020: LONG READ

'Raw exposed nerves': Anxious United States awaits Election Day

02-11-2020 17:25 As Election Day closes in, many US citizens are exhausted from constant crises, on edge because of volatile political divisions, and anxious about what will happen next.

US presidential debate

Foreign observers shocked by 'chaos' and 'rancour' in US debate

30-09-2020 08:46 The first debate pitting Republican President Donald Trump against Democratic challenger Joe Biden was not a highlight of political oratory in the eyes of many overseas.

BLOOMBERG

Resistance grows to government's plan to nationalise Vicentin

12-06-2020 02:05 President Alberto Fernández announced on June 8 that the state would nationalise soy giant Vicentin, which was the country's largest grain exporter until it hit a crisis at the end of last year.

ARGENTINA CORONAVIRUS

Fears over Covid-19 in villas come to fruition with community leader's death

23-05-2020 09:13 Ramona Medina's death shines a light on the problems facing Argentina’s poorest amid the coronavirus pandemic, which is spreading more rapidly in low-income neighbourhoods.

CORONAVIRUS & CHINA

Outrage over China's handling of heroic doctor's death

07-02-2020 13:07 A Chinese doctor who was punished after raising alarm about China's new coronavirus died from the pathogen on February 7, sparking an outpouring of grief and anger on social media against the government.

DIPLOMATIC SPAT

Chile tells Argentina not to comment on 'internal policy situations'

24-12-2019 09:41 Foreign Ministry in Santiago contacts Felipe Solá to complain about comments made by Alberto Fernández, after Peronist leader highlights number of those arrested during protests in neighbouring country.

GUEST COLUMN

Anger and environmental idealism

19-10-2019 08:30 The thrust of our political, economic and environmental systems must be urgently changed because their divergence is catastrophic.

by Ricardo Lorenzetti

'ADOPTION CATWALK'

Outrage in Brazil after children up for adoption paraded in shopping centre

24-05-2019 09:49 "Adoption on the Catwalk" in the central-west state of Mato Grosso was designed to "give visibility to children and adolescents who are eligible for adoption," according to an official statement promoting Tuesday's show.