Global News by Tag: Argentina
ARGENTINA, KASHMIR, KENYA AND NEPAL – May 1 marks International Workers’ Day, or May Day. It is a public holiday in some countries in honor of the international labor movement and an unofficial holiday in many others. Global Press Institute senior reporters from four news desks use the occasion to highlight traditional and unique jobs in their regions.
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.
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 – 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.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Argentine tango duo Solange Acosta and Max Van de Voorde made their country proud this week when they won one of the two championship titles at the Tango Buenos Aires Festival and World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital.
“We breathe together, at the same time, in connection,” says Van de Voorde, revealing to local media the secret of their success in the stage tango category.