Fake Weddings Are a Big Business In Argentina
It used to be that if you wanted to go to a fake wedding, you’d have to pony up $100 bucks to watch Tony and Tina get married while you ate cold spaghetti and paid per drink at the “no host bar!” In Argentina, however, people who love a good party now have more options than half-baked dinner theater and crashing…
Argentina's Coolest Dumb Teens Are Wearing Confederate Flags
Argentina’s equivalent of Abercrombie is a store called John L Cook. It caters to hot teens dying to lose their virginity and manufactures t-shirts with meaningless identity-defining slogans on them like “Sea Salt” and “Grunge” and “Somewhere Between NY & LA.” They also have a lot of apparel featuring what seems to be…
Argentina, Like Many Countries, Wants To Put Justin Bieber In Jail
If Justin Bieber ever goes to Argentina again, he will be arrested. Reuters reports that in 2013, a Buenos Aires photographer “accused Bieber and one of his bodyguards of lashing out at him when he tried to take a picture of the star as he left [a club.]” Bieber, still in the middle of his wild days and mad existence…
Argentine Pres Was About to Be Arrested Before Prosecutor's Murder
In a story that's quickly escalating from "Huh, that's weird" to "Holy shit," there is (or was) a draft of a warrant for the arrest of Argentina's President, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. That arrest warrant was found at the home of Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who recently died under mysterious…
Tampons in Argentina Cost $30 a Box, If You Can Get Them
Argentina is known for a few things: natural resources like iron ore and zinc, Madonna's portrayal of Eva Perón, government corruption. And since the country is having problems with the latter—in particular, crippling inflation that's caused the price of imports as a result because no one wants to do business with a…
Even Mark Sanford's Ex-Fiancée Was Surprised by That Facebook Post
I think it's safe to say that we were all sort of taken off guard by Mark Sanford's cry-me-a-river Facebook post announcing his break-up with fiancée Maria Belen Chapur. Mostly because he's an irrelevant politician whose claim to fame is his extramarital business. But apparently, we weren't the only one's surprised…
Protesters Want 'World's Saddest Polar Bear' Moved From Argentina Zoo
Arturo, the only remaining polar bear in the Mendoza Zoo outside of Buenos Aires, has been dubbed the "world's saddest polar bear" by animal rights activists, and for good reason. (If there is a sadder polar bear out there, then I'm pretty sure that we have no way of being sure that our earth isn't a terrible…
What It's Like To Get an Abortion in a Country Where It's Illegal
The focus of this week's episode of the U.K.'s Secrets of South America was Argentina (last week's, featuring the clip of the beauty queen with mesh sewn to her tongue, was Venezuela). The show, a sort of modern imagining of the Prosperi/Jacopetti Mondo movies as hosted by a perky cross between Alexa Chung and Fiona…
Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is going to take a month off after doctors informed her Saturday that she had a “chronic subdural collection” stemming from “skull trauma” she suffered back on Aug. 12.
Woman Marries Her Twin Sister’s Incarcerated Killer, Absolutely Nobody Rejoices
The people of Pico Truncado, Argentina bore witness to a not-so-touching Valentine's Day marriage this on Thursday when Edith Casas married the man currently incarcerated for killing her twin sister. Romance! Chalk candies! Long-con revenge plot?
Argentina’s New Gender Law Is Making Life Way Easier for Trans People
A helpful new law that simplifies the process for changing one's name and gender on an ID card (and covers sex procedures like sex reassignment under health care) aims to make joining the mainstream population a much more attainable goal for transgender citizens in Argentina. In other countries, the gender/name change…
Morgue Miracle Baby Is on the Mend
For Analia Bouguet the past week has been the very definition of an emotional rollercoaster. First the woman, who lives in Argentina, gave birth in her local hospital to a baby that was born three months premature. The girl was pronounced stillborn immediately. Without allowing Analia to see the baby, they sent her…
Falklands Newspaper Bitchily Calls Argentina’s President a Bitch
Long believed to be a mythical archipelago populated exclusively by penguins and three elderly British wizarding couples who all have tea together on Sundays and exchange potion recipes, the Falkland Islands recently proved that it is a very real and newsworthy place when one of the local papers, Penguin News, took a…

