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Megan Snedden: Travel Photography How-Tos: Capturing Color

2012-05-24T07:00:00Z

I spotted this salt carver wearing a blue shirt and invited him to pose in front of the blue car.

Read more: Argentina, Travel Writing, Travel, Megan Snedden, Travel Photography, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Bomb Found In Theater Hours Before Former President's Speech

2012-05-22T15:53:06Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Police on Tuesday defused a pair of powerful firecrackers hidden in a Buenos Aires theater and apparently timed to exp...

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Jetsetter.com: Where To Go When You've Summered Everywhere

2012-05-20T09:40:00Z

No one loves a classic summer spot more than we do, but it doesn't hurt to mix things up.

Read more: Summer in Paris, Summer Travel, Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, Montauk, Borgo Egnazia Hotel, Puglia, Grand Hotel De Bordeaux & Spa, Entre Cielos, Bath, Montauk Yacht Club, Mendoza, Argentina, Travel, Italy, Paris, Summer Vacation, Nikki Ridgway, Jetsetter, Ruschmeyer's, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Linda Xiao: Mount Fitz Roy For The Reluctant Hiker

2012-05-18T07:00:00Z

The air of adventure in El Chaltén, Argentina, is palpable.

Read more: Active Travel, International Destinations, Argentina, Chile, Hiking, Patagonia, Destinations, Travel Blogs, Adventure Travel, Travel News

Marcelo Giugale: The Greatest Generation of Argentine Women

2012-05-15T18:08:50Z

Alicia Tamburelli and her generation would do something amazing, something that lesser leaders would deem impossible. From the anonymity of their kitchens, and for decades on end, they managed to protect their families from the perennial failure of their country's political class.

Read more: Government, Women, Migration, Poverty, Economics, Argentina, World News

Human Rights Leader Charged With Embezzling $156 Million

2012-05-15T17:32:55Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charge...

Read more: Video, Sergio Schoklender Embezzlement, Sergio Schoklender, Sergio Schoklender Embezzling, Mothers of Plaza De Mayo, Argentina, World News

Rajan Menon: Whither Eurozone Austerity?

2012-05-15T14:45:51Z

Europe's political winds have shifted over the past month. The first sign of this preceded the event now being hailed as the catalyst, Sarkozy's loss in France's presidential election, and it occurred in an unlikely place: the Netherlands.

Read more: Eurozone, Greece Elections, Greece Debt Crisis, Angela Merkel, Argentina, Spain, Francois Hollande, North Rhine-Westphalia, World News

VP Accused Of Illegal Enrichment, Money Laundering, Influence Peddling

2012-05-15T04:14:56Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Influence peddling and money laundering allegations haven't been enough to topple Argentina's vice president, Amado Boudou....

Read more: Video, Argentina Amado Boudou, Argentine Vice President, Argentina, Amado Boudou, Vice President Amado Boudou, Amadou Badou Money Laundering, Amadou Badou Illegal Enrichment Accusations, Amadou Badou Illegal Enrichment, World News

Arianna On The Crisis In Greece

2012-05-12T18:57:11Z

AS I follow the modern Greek tragedy unfolding in Europe, I flash back to the 18 years I spent in Athens, walking to school in Plaka (the old part of ...

Read more: Argentina, Arianna, George Papandreou, Greece, Greek Debt Crisis, Greece Austerity, Arianna Huffington, Greece Debt Crisis, Business News

Eric Ehrmann: Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil

2012-05-11T17:06:51Z

The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.

Read more: Bolivia, Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Socialist International, Venezuela, Dilma Rousseff, Argentina, Leon Trotsky, Brazil, Globalism, Odebrecht, World Social Forum, World Economic Forum, Luis Favre, Sean Penn, World News

Hayley Rose Horzepa: LGBT Community Makes Strides in Argentina, Loses Ground in US

2012-05-11T14:06:26Z

In Argentina, "Senators approved the Gender Identity law by a vote of 55-0." 55-0? I can't imagine that unanimity happening with any positive legislature for the LGBT in this country.

Read more: Equality, Gay Rights, Transgender, Gender Rights, Argentina, Transgender Issues, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, The Bible, Transgender Rights, North Carolina Amendment One, Argentina Transgender Rights, World News

Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols: An Argentine Trans Man Tells Us Why His Country's New Transgender Law Is The Best New Law In The World

2012-05-10T18:34:00Z

Argentina has led the world again in LGBT rights, this time focusing on the transgender community. Yesterday, legislation passed that allows a legal change of gender by simply filling out a form. This is a progressive step.

Read more: Transgender, Argentina, Argentina Transgender Rights, Argentina Transgender Law, Argentina Trans Rights, Video, Gay Voices News

Argentina Makes Sex-Change Surgery A Legal Right

2012-05-10T01:21:11Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or privat...

Read more: Miguel Pichetto, Osvaldo Lopez, Transgender, Cesar Cigliutti, Cristina Fernandez, Gender Identity Law, Gender Reassignment Surgery, Sex-Change Surgery, Argentina, Transgender Rights, Katrina Karkazis, Argentina Transgender Rights, Homosexual Community of Argentina, Argentina Transgender, Gay Voices News

'Dignified Death' Law Expected To Pass

2012-05-09T11:34:49Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a "dignified death" law giving terminally ill patients and the...

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John Feffer: Waiting for Copernicus

2012-05-08T17:12:44Z

It's happening in Buenos Aires. It's happening in Paris and in Athens. It's even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades.

Read more: Neoliberalism, Repsol YPF, Argentina, Washington Consensus, Greece, François Hollande, France, World News

Mark Weisbrot: Argentina and the Magic Soybean: The Commodity Export Boom That Wasn't

2012-05-08T16:50:07Z

I know what you are thinking: "Who cares?" Well, try to keep reading, because this does have implications beyond the sprawling soybean farms in the Argentine province of Cordoba. What does it mean to have a "commodities boom," or growth driven by the export of commodities?

Read more: Debt, Eurozone, Inflation, Argentina, Imf, Paul Krugman, Soybeans, Gdp, Commodities Boom, World News

Elana Shever: When the State Takes Stock

2012-05-04T13:47:16Z

The Argentine government has seized control of Spanish oil giant Repsol's stake in what was Argentina's national oil company. The takeover is being celebrated in Argentina and criticized elsewhere as a repudiation of the neoliberal reforms that opened up Argentina's crisis-plagued economy.

Read more: Repsol YPF, Oil, Argentina, Argentina Oil, Repsol, Repsol Argentina, South America, Latin America, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Foreign Affairs, Ypf, World News

Mark Weisbrot: Argentina's Critics Get It Wrong Again

2012-04-30T12:01:51Z

It is interesting that Argentina has had such remarkable economic success over the past nine years while receiving very little foreign direct investment and being mostly shunned by international financial markets. Maybe that's another reason why Argentina gets so much flak.

Read more: Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Repsol, Ypf, Argentina Inflation, Latin America Inflation, Argentina Gdp, Argentina Economy, World News

Rebecca Tinsley: Borders Were Made To Be Crossed

2012-04-30T07:00:00Z

Cuidad del Este is a bustling city on the Paraguayan side of the Rio Parana. It forms the triple frontier with Brazil and Argentina, but it couldn't be more different from its orderly neighbors.

Read more: Drc, Smuggling, Border, Goma, Zaire, Argentina, Graham Greene, Cuidad Del Este, Gisenyi, Brazil, Passport, Congo, Paraguay, Rwanda, Travel News

Mariela Murdocco: Charly García: A Resurrected Charly Celebrates His Career

2012-04-27T18:14:34Z

Gifted with perfect pitch - an innate ability that not even most musicians have - there is no doubt that Charly is one of the most influential 'rock en español' musicians and composers in Latino
America.

Read more: Spanish Rock, Charly Garcia, Rock, Hispanic Music, Hispanic Heritage, Argentina, Cultura, Latino Voices News

John C.K. Daly: Argentina Moves Towards Nationalizing YPF Repsol -- Good Nationalist Ploy, Bad Business

2012-04-24T14:24:34Z

In Argentina the government of President Christina Kirchner Fernandez is moving to reclaim the YPF energy company. Looking behind the scenes, what is really driving Argentina's seemingly quixotic energy policies?

Read more: Energy, Falkland Islands, Oil, Repsol YPF, Argentina, Natural Gas, Las Malvinas, Oil Company, World News, World News

Argentina Boots Repsol, Nationalizes Petroleum Company

2012-04-22T15:18:47Z

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Less than a decade ago, Argentina was an exporter of oil and natural gas. Now the government has to spend billions of ...

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Usher Joins Fuerza Bruta For One Day Only

2012-04-20T12:47:56Z

NEW YORK -- Usher is heading off-Broadway.

The Grammy winner will join the cast of "Fuerza Bruta: Look Up," the fast-paced, acrobatic and unconventio...

Read more: Usher, Off-Broadway, Look Up, De La Guarda, Daryl Roth Theatre, Looking for Myself, Argentina, Grammys, Diqui James, Fuerza Bruta, Running Man, Video, Arts News

Carl Pope: The New World Bank President's First Night

2012-04-17T20:05:58Z

The kinds of "big" development schemes that come most easily to the World Bank often bring with them nominal increases in gross domestic product, but only do so by degrading natural and community systems on which billions of people depend.

Read more: Environment, Argentina, Goldman Environmental Prize, Kenya, Sierra Club, World Bank, World Bank Development, Coal Power, Green News

Daniel Wagner: Argentina's Expropriation and the Lessons of History

2012-04-17T10:49:04Z

Given how entrenched oil politics have become in Argentine political culture -- and given how deftly both the current president and her husband played the nationalism card -- only a naïve investor would agree to invest in YPF believing that expropriation was impossible.

Read more: Repsol YPF, Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Argentine Crisis, Ypf, World News