News of families

CULTURE

Colombia court upends old Latin America naming tradition

07-11-2019 09:44 Tradition has long had it that children born to families in Latin America receive two last names: That of their father, followed by that of their mother. Now that practice is being challenged in court.

IMMIGRATION AND THE UNITED STATES

Deadline to reunite immigrant families rapidly approaching

07-07-2018 09:55 Donald Trump won the US presidential race with the most anti-immigration platform witnessed in the United States in decades.

MEXICO’S DISAPPEARED

Families look to Argentine forensic team to ID their missing loved ones

09-06-2018 11:19 In Mexico, distrust of the authorities run deep – more than 20,000 have gone missing in the last six years alone. And their families are left in limbo, not knowing the fate of their loved ones.

MALVINAS/FALKLAND ISLANDS

Families of fallen Malvinas soldiers visit graves at Darwin Cemetery

26-03-2018 15:19 More than 200 relatives of 90 fallen Argentine soldiers killed in the South Atlantic War with Britain visited Darwin Cemetery on the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands this morning on a humanitarian mission, agreed under a bilateral agreement reached between Britain and Argentina in 2016.