News of community

Colombia's illicit coca economy helps communities thrive

03-09-2021 00:01 In the mountains and jungles of southwestern Colombia, peasants and migrantstoil determinedly in fields of coca despite the dangers and persecution they suffer.

OBITUARY

Malcolm Hunter OBE, key figure in Argentina’s British community, dies at 91

27-08-2021 23:16 Ex-ABCC chief, business leader and charitable soul Malcom Hunter OBE has to go down as one of the most important leaders the British community in Argentina has ever had.

by Michael Soltys

Coronavirus pandemic

Delta case of community circulation detected in Buenos Aires Province

24-08-2021 19:18 Authorities in Buenos Aires Province identify first case of Delta variant contagion via community circulation in the region.

Coronavirus pandemic

Quiros: Delta variant 'very close' to community transmission

17-08-2021 16:32 Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós warned Tuesday that the Delta variant of Covid-19 "is very close" to entering into community transmission.

Coronavirus pandemic

Delta fears grip Argentina, prompting authorities into action

30-07-2021 19:33 More than 300 people in Buenos Aires City, Córdoba Province forced into isolation after at least 19 people test positive for Delta strain. President goes into preventative isolation after returning from overseas trip.

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.

LATIN AMERICA

Trans workers breaking barriers in Brazil

22-07-2021 09:58 A growing number of training programmes aimed specifically at transgender people are helping workers break through barriers in Brazil.

AMIA BOMBING: 27 YEARS ON

Families reiterate call for justice on 27th anniversary of AMIA bombing

18-07-2021 15:38 Families of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre renewed their demands for justice Sunday as they marked the 27th anniversary of the horror attack.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

Argentina’s Senate approves transgender job quota law

28-06-2021 16:11 Senate backs sweeping legislation that reserves one percent of all public sector jobs for members of the trans community.

COMMUNITY

Baby joy for travelling couple who spent pandemic stranded in Mendoza

19-06-2021 09:45 Baby Beatrice Myrtle Davis Bridges was born on March 18, 2021, at the Hospital Español de Mendoza to British mother Katherine Rose Bridges and American father Dawson Davis Jr, giving her a rare form of triple citizenship.

by Emma Ridden

International Transgender Day of Visibility

Protesters use Trans Visibility Day to highlight missing youngster

02-04-2021 02:34 Demonstrators mark International Transgender Day of Visibility by demonstrating outside Congress, demanding greater efforts be made in the search for Tehuel, a 21-year-old who went missing since March 11.

COMMUNITY

Ronnie Scott: 103 not out

13-03-2021 08:52 Keep moving would seem to be the secret of Ronnie Scott’s longevity – flying the skies from World War II to the year of Argentina’s first World Cup, he remains on wheels to this day with a driving licence.

by Michael Soltys

CARLOS MENEM (1930-2021)

Choose your own Menem

20-02-2021 07:46 As from Menem, public officials who got rich on the job began to be the rule rather than the exception.

by Javier Calvo

TRANS RIGHTS

Trans footballer Mara Gómez makes history with women's league debut

09-12-2020 09:58 Footballer Mara Gómez makes history, becoming first transgender player to play a match in Argentina's women's championship.

Trans rights

Argentina's Army must comply with 1% quota for trans individuals

24-11-2020 09:10 Argentina's Army has been included on a list of official bodies that must comply with new legislation guaranteeing the incorporation of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people into the workplace, according to press reports.

TERROR THREAT?

Argentina tightens border after tip-off warns of bomb attack on Jewish community

15-11-2020 10:34 Security Ministry opens probe after anonymous tipster warns Embassy in London that explosive material is due to cross border with Paraguay “for a bomb in Argentina with a Jewish objective.”

BLOOMBERG

CEOs frustrated with Argentina rattle off list of problems

13-11-2020 19:02 Global companies are growing ever more frustrated with Argentina. The specific gripes vary, but broadly speaking executives say it’s hard to make money given the multitude of challenges facing the nation.

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Armenians in Argentina decry Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

11-10-2020 08:51 Hundreds of people from Argentina's Armenian community demonstrated Saturday in Buenos Aires, calling for an end to fighting in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

KIRCHNERITE TYCOON

Lázaro Báez granted house arrest – but protests keep him behind bars

08-09-2020 16:50 Kirchnerite businessman Lázaro Báez, behind bars for more than four years over corruption and money-laundering allegations, granted house arrest. But residents at the gated community at which he is due to reside block access to his property.

TRANS RIGHTS

Argentina establishes 1% quota for trans workers in civil service jobs

04-09-2020 16:40 One percent of state jobs must be reserved for transgender people, according to a decree published yesterday in the Official Gazette.

EDITORIAL

No immunity from impunity

18-07-2020 09:10 The bloodiest attack against the Jewish Diaspora anywhere in the world since the Shoah, the AMIA massacre still marks this city’s biggest loss of life in a single day.

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

The arguing never stops

11-07-2020 08:13 The arguing will never go away. At times it pauses briefly when the public is hit by unsettling news on the coronavirus front, but then, in no time at all, the bickering begins once more.

by Martín Gambarotta

Life in quarantine

Hungry neighbours cook together as virus roils Latin America

19-06-2020 19:56 Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based food kitchens, unseen in large numbers since crises like Peru’s 1990s civil war or Argentina’s financial crash two decades ago.

ARGENTINE FOOTBALL

Transgender players kick down doors in local football

26-04-2020 14:09 Mara Gómez and Marcos Rojo are blazing a trail for transgender players in Argentine football.

HEALTHCARE – HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO

Coronavirus pandemic: A note from the British Hospital

04-04-2020 08:38 The British Hospital has a specific On-Call Alert process designed for patients with suspected coronavirus, aimed at guaranteeing the quality and safety of the incoming patient.

Coronavirus pandemic

Health Ministry confirms first cases of ‘community transmission’ in Argentina

23-03-2020 16:12 Novel coronavirus is spreading via "community transmission" in CABA, its surroundings and "some cities in Chaco, Tierra del Fuego and Córdoba" provinces, says Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti.

Environment

Solar schooling: City school begins generating electricity for its neighbours

26-02-2020 15:53 Primary school in Villa Devoto installs 200 solar panels on its roof – enough to supply power to its buildings and to the wider neighbourhood.

by Claudio Corsalini

NISMAN: 5 YEARS ON

Alberto Nisman march to take place in Plaza Vaticano

18-01-2020 09:54 Host of local politicians are expected to attend the event, which will have a sharp anti-Kirchnerite tone. DAIA Jewish organisation will hold a separate ceremony of remembrance, as will family.

DEATH OF ALBERTO NISMAN

Rabbani, Iranian accused in AMIA bombing probe, wades into Nisman debate

10-01-2020 16:48 Moshen Rabbani, former cultural attaché to Islamic Republic's Embassy in Buenos Aires, suggests AMIA special prosecutor was murdered and denies claims he masterminded AMIA bombing.

VENEZUELANS IN ARGENTINA

Venezuelans in Argentina flee one crisis and now fear another

25-10-2019 09:37 Venezuelan who emigrated to Argentina fears that a victory by Peronist leader Alberto Fernández this weekend would deliver a crisis like the one back home.

EUROPE

132,000 descendants of Spain's exiled Jews apply for nationality

03-10-2019 09:28 Numbers include some 4,000 Argentines, who are joining other descendants in taking advantage of a limited-term offer of Spanish nationality.

News of community

Colombia's illicit coca economy helps communities thrive

Malcolm Hunter OBE, key figure in Argentina’s British community, dies at 91

Delta case of community circulation detected in Buenos Aires Province

Quiros: Delta variant 'very close' to community transmission

Delta fears grip Argentina, prompting authorities into action

Descendants of Welsh settlers mark 156 years in Patagonia

Trans workers breaking barriers in Brazil

Families reiterate call for justice on 27th anniversary of AMIA bombing

Argentina’s Senate approves transgender job quota law

Baby joy for travelling couple who spent pandemic stranded in Mendoza

Protesters use Trans Visibility Day to highlight missing youngster

Ronnie Scott: 103 not out

Choose your own Menem

Trans footballer Mara Gómez makes history with women's league debut

Argentina's Army must comply with 1% quota for trans individuals

Argentina tightens border after tip-off warns of bomb attack on Jewish community

CEOs frustrated with Argentina rattle off list of problems

Armenians in Argentina decry Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Lázaro Báez granted house arrest – but protests keep him behind bars

Argentina establishes 1% quota for trans workers in civil service jobs

No immunity from impunity

The arguing never stops

Hungry neighbours cook together as virus roils Latin America

Transgender players kick down doors in local football

Coronavirus pandemic: A note from the British Hospital

Health Ministry confirms first cases of ‘community transmission’ in Argentina

Solar schooling: City school begins generating electricity for its neighbours

Alberto Nisman march to take place in Plaza Vaticano

Rabbani, Iranian accused in AMIA bombing probe, wades into Nisman debate

Venezuelans in Argentina flee one crisis and now fear another

132,000 descendants of Spain's exiled Jews apply for nationality

Government unveils plan to ease Covid restrictions, reopen borders

Details of the government's new Covid restrictions

Horacio Rosatti chosen to be new chief justice of Supreme Court

Casa Rosada confirms First Lady Fabiola Yáñez is pregnant

Argentina uses SDR boost to make debt payment to IMF

Mohamed Alí Acuña, el docente que noqueó a Capitanich

Entre Ríos: revelaron cómo hizo el auto para terminar sobre la parada de colectivos

Encuesta: se desplomó la confianza en el gobierno y está un 20% por debajo de la peor cifra de Macri

Chat de mamis | Violenta discusión en la puerta de un colegio en Caseros: un padre perdió el ojo

España: las impactantes fotos de la erupción del Volcán Cumbre Vieja que arrasó con 320 edificios