The world’s street art capital?

Argentina’s capital boasts one of the world’s most buoyant street art scenes thanks to the laissez-faire attitude of the city government

People’s court tries journalists who defended dictatorship

The Madres de Plaza de Mayo, a pressure group made up of mothers of those ‘disappeared’ during the military dictatorship, organised a symbolic trial in central Buenos Aires of journalists who justified the junta of 1976-83

Twenty five years for Argentina’s last dictator

Reynaldo Bignone, Argentina’s last de facto ruler, spent his first night in prison yesterday after being found guilty of crimes committed during the dictatorship. Bignone, 82, was the country’s last military ruler before the return to democracy in 1983. A Buenos Aires court found him guilty of human rights abuses committed in 1977 at the [...]

Argentina and China in trade dispute over soya oil

Argentina and China are locked in a growing trade dispute after the Chinese government said it plans to boycott imports of soya oil from Argentina.

Marchers take to the streets to mark Falklands anniversary

Marchers took to the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday to mark the 28th anniversary of the Falklands War

The 10p cocaine byproduct turning Argentina’s slum children into the living dead

A generation of parents in Buenos Aires can only watch in despair as their sons and daughters are consumed by paco, a lethally cheap drug