Cattle burn as ‘monster’ wildfires rage in Argentina ranchlands

Capilla del Monte, Argentina Reuters Wildfires have burned through 40,000 hectares of Argentina’s central farming region of Cordoba, according to officials, leaving charred cattle, houses, forests and fields in their wake. Images from the hard-hit town of Capilla del Monte in the key ranching region showed cows completely burned and blackened amid scenes of decimated […]
Essay: A new wave of Venezuelan refugees would threaten a humanitarian crisis – Latin America could learn from Europe

OMAR HAMMOUD GALLEGO, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at lessons from the European experience in responding to those fleeing the war in Ukraine…
Snapshot: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Argentina judge halts deforestation of Chaco forest in rare move

Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters An Argentine federal judge on Monday ordered a three-month suspension of deforestation in northern Chaco province, a rare step to protect one of the world’s woodland ecosystems that is most rapidly being destroyed to make way for farmland. The unusual though not unprecedented move, announced officially on the public prosecutor’s office […]
Argentina’s Milei vows justice in 1994 bombing of Jewish community centre

Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Argentina’s Jewish community on Thursday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the bombing of a community centre that killed 85 people, with President Javier Milei promising to right decades of inaction and inconsistencies in the investigations into the attack. A bomb-filled van hit the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community centre […]
Postcards: Meat-loving Argentines eat less beef as inflation bites

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Updated: Argentine Senate passes Milei reform bill as protests rage outside

Updated: 3pm (AEST) Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Argentina’s Senate passed a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to libertarian President Javier Milei’s economic reform plans, while protesters set fires and clashed with police in the streets outside Congress. The upper house was divided down the middle over the bill, which was passed in a […]
Winter deepens misery for Argentina’s poor following Milei’s financial cuts

Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Homelessness is on the rise across major Argentine cities as the new libertarian government’s tough medicine reforms squeeze pensions, state salaries and push up rental prices, forcing more people into poverty. The latest survey by local authorities showed the official number of Argentines sleeping rough on the streets of Buenos Aires […]
Argentina’s 300 per cent inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town

Nanawa, Paraguay Reuters Paraguayan shoppers used to flock in their droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where the weak peso currency for years kept relative prices low for fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled in across the frontier. Now Nanawa is a ghost town, with prices of the contraband […]
Auroras dazzle in Latin America as solar storm causes rare displays

Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The biggest geomagnetic storm in two decades, sparked by solar flares, caused dazzling lights displays in parts of Latin America overnight on Friday, including a rare appearance in Mexico. A view shows the lights of an Aurora Borealis caused by a geomagnetic storm over the border cities of Mexicali, Mexico and […]