Global News by Region: Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – “The living dead” haunt a street corner in Villa Zabaleta, a disadvantaged and dangerous neighborhood of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This is what neighbors call the drug addicts who wander the sidewalks of this intersection.
Some pedestrians can slip by these wanderers undetected. But if they register them passing by, the addicts ask for money. The bolder ones just rob them.
SALTA, ARGENTINA – Three children, ages 6, 7 and 15, left their towns one day and set off toward the peak of a volcano. Accompanied by Inca priests, they walked for months or even years until they at last reached the Llullaillaco Volcano in northwestern Argentina. There, the priests got them drunk and buried them alive as an offering to the gods.
QUEBRADA DE HUMAHUACA, ARGENTINA – Communities of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a UNESCO National and Cultural Heritage of Humanity site, celebrated one of the most traditional and famous Carnivals in Argentina from Feb. 18 to 21. Andean community members forgot about the strains of daily life in order to partake in four days of nonstop song and dance in Jujuy, a province in northwestern Argentina.
Reporting Rape: Part Two in a Global Series
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – An Argentine woman, who declined to be named, says she was 23 when a stranger raped her in the full light of day in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – The Secretariat of Public Communication, a government body, hosted journalists from around the world last week to a conference emphasizing the role of the media in promoting and defending human rights. Part of the day included a tour of the former Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, ESMA, an army training school that functioned as a detention, torture and disappearance center during the last military dictatorship, which ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital, Sunday night to celebrate the re-election of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a figure both loved and criticized, who captured the votes of more than 50 percent of the electorate.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Mauro Sorbellini, 41, pushes himself in his wheelchair while his wife walks by his side, resting a hand on his shoulder. It is a common scene of a common couple that have just finished dropping their son off at school, except for one detail. Sorbellini, who has spent more than 20 years in a wheelchair after he fell out of a tree and became paralyzed, must fight every day to complete routine tasks like this.