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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.

MIKE POMPEO VISIT

Pompeo offers US$7M reward for info on alleged AMIA attack mastermind

19-07-2019 14:42 US Secretary of State announces targeted sanctions against Hezbollah operative Salman Raouf Salman, who allegedly “served as the on the ground coordinator for the AMIA bombing,” during visit to Buenos Aires for terrorism conference.

by Jonah Shrock

AMIA BOMBING

'Everything shook': Painful memories as thousands gather to remember AMIA bombing

18-07-2019 17:44 A quarter century on, huge crowds turn out to preserve the memories of the victims of the attack and to demand an end to impunity.

by Jonah Shrock

AMIA BOMBING

Remembrance and renewed calls for justice as Argentina remembers AMIA victims

18-07-2019 15:19 Government officials attend commemorative event in capital as AMIA's acting president reiterates demand that those who carried out attack be brought to justice.

by Lucas Robinson

AMIA BOMBING

Victims of 1994 AMIA bombing still waiting for justice, 25 years on

18-07-2019 08:35 The 25th anniversary of the infamous bombing attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre arrives today – but the relatives of victims are still waiting for justice.

News of community

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

Pompeo offers US$7M reward for info on alleged AMIA attack mastermind

'Everything shook': Painful memories as thousands gather to remember AMIA bombing

Remembrance and renewed calls for justice as Argentina remembers AMIA victims

Victims of 1994 AMIA bombing still waiting for justice, 25 years on

Vizzotti warns Argentina is in 'worst moment' of coronavirus pandemic to date

The P1 or 'Brazilian' variant: what we know about new Covid strain

Government's plan to stabilise rents sends prices skyrocketing in BA

'People do not seem to comprehend': Uruguay ICU staff decry pandemic laxity

PAHO warns of fake Covid-19 vaccines in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

¿Google Argentina se olvidó de renovar google.com.ar? Un usuario aprovechó la oportunidad

Alberto Fernández, Putin y un gorila: el chiste que compartió el Presidente

Qué dijo Ángela Gentile sobre los 10 niños internados por Covid en el Hospital Gutiérrez

La Organización Panamericana de la Salud advirtió que hay ofertas de vacunas falsas en Argentina

Ante la suba de casos en La Matanza, los militares instalan su colosal hospital reubicable chino