16-year-old Lucía Pérez was drugged, raped and tortured in Argentinian city Mar del Plata earlier in October. On Wednesday, thousands of women joined a national protest against the rise of violent crimes against women. All public and private work was stopped for one hour at 1 p.m., and was followed by a march in…
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama danced the tango in Argentina at a State Dinner, and now you too can feel like the proudest parent watching your bar or bat mitzvah kid slow-dance with their middle school crush!
Prepare to mourn martini and gimlet fans: the juniper plant that produces delicious gin is under attack by a deadly fungus—and so close to the holidays!
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 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…
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…
Statecraft! It's a delicate art. But it shouldn't take the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to tell you that racist accent mockery on Twitter doesn't get you very far in diplomatic negotiations. Maybe somebody should inform Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, though.
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…
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…
No, that is not a joke headline stolen from The Onion. This is actually a thing that happened.
Some changes are coming in the world of beauty pageants.
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…
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…
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.
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?
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…
Argentina's Martin Rodriguez, bottom, is tackled by South Africa's Francois Hougaard during their Rugby Championship second round match in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Wow: Argentina just passed an unprecedented "Gender Identity" law that will allow adults seeking sex-change surgery or hormone therapy to get expenses covered under private or public health plans without a stamp of approval from a doctor or judge.
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…
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…
