News of james

'We're back!': Bielsa hailed as Leeds win promotion to Premier League

17-07-2020 18:02 Fans gathered outside Elland Road in England, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to celebrate the promotion of Leeds United to the Premier League after a 16-year exile. And many were particularly thankful to one man: Marcelo Bielsa.

ILLEGAL ESPIONAGE CLAIMS

AFI conducted illegal espionage on more than 400 journalists during Macri era

08-06-2020 00:12 Cristina Caamaño, government-appointed trustee of AFI federal intelligence agency, files complaint alleging officials conducted illegal espionage on 500 journalists, academics and business leaders, including two Buenos Aires Times staffers, during the Mauricio Macri administration's time in office.

AS I SEE IT

Groundhog Day all over again

15-02-2020 11:17 Argentina’s many economic problems have less to do with greedy speculators, whether local or foreign, than with the corporatist model Juan Domingo Perón consolidated almost three-quarters of a century ago.

by James Neilson

FOOTBALL: MLS

David Beckham's Inter Miami begins to take shape

13-11-2019 23:55 Club to face LA Galaxy in first home fixture. Beckham's side have yet to appoint a manager but have begun to build a squad with ex-Estudiantes 19-year-old forward Matías Pellegrini arriving in July to become the franchise's first designated player (DP).

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

The Kelper, Cristina and the cost of conflict

21-09-2019 10:01 A man caught in the middle of history. The complicated story of James Peck, the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands and the use of nationalism in local politics.

by Lucas Robinson

WORLD TANGO CHAMPIONSHIP

Meet James McManus, the 99-year-old dancer who loves to tango

21-08-2019 17:40 McManus had not even flown on a plane in more than two decades. But just a few months before his 100th birthday, his friends gave him a plane ticket to Buenos Aires.

TANGO

Irishman, 99, competes at world tango championships in Buenos Aires

15-08-2019 09:04 Tango fans in McManus' native Ireland raised money for his transatlantic trip. The fit nonagenerian said he only took up tango in 2002, when he was already in his 80s.

MORRISON

Pioneering US writer Toni Morrison dies at 88

06-08-2019 14:00 Morrison, a Nobel laureate and author of "Beloved" and "Sula," died Monday night in New York after a brief illness.

AS I SEE IT

Macri picks the wrong opposition

17-11-2018 14:50 Lately, there have been signs that a growing proportion of the country’s politicians are coming to the conclusion that it would be helpful if they returned to the real world.

by James Neilson