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Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Peter Zumthor, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize, compares his creative process to the arc of a love affair.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Former President Nestor Kirchner formally launched his campaign for a congressional seat Thursday night in a bid to rejuvenate the sagging popularity of the woman who succeeded him — his wife, Cristina Fernandez.
In Argentina, good fences don't always make good neighbors.
The storm set in suddenly, darkening the midmorning sky. Winds reached 60 miles an hour (100 kilometers/hour). Waves towered over the refitted fishing trawler, with swells as high as 26 feet (8 meters).
Argentina and China have tentatively agreed to swap $10 billion worth of their currencies to enable South America's second-largest economy to avoid using dollars in trade between the nations, banking officials said Monday.
Argentine congressional elections have been moved forward four months in a push by the president to get campaign politics out of the way and focus on Argentina's economic crisis.
Argentina will funnel 30 percent of tax income levied on soy exports into an emergency fund destined for the nation's 23 provinces, President Cristina Fernandez announced Thursday.
President Cristina Fernandez announced Tuesday she will send Congress a bill to nationalize defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.'s aircraft maintenance facility in central Argentina.
President Cristina Fernandez on Friday proposed moving congressional elections forward by four months to let the government focus more on fighting economic problems and less on politics, but her critics called it a bald attempt to lock in votes before her political support erodes.
A U.S. mountain climbing instructor died and two American students were injured when the ice bridge they were crossing on an Argentina peak broke, plunging them into a crevasse, officials of the sponsoring organization said Monday.
Members of Argentina's armed forces will be tried by civil courts rather than military tribunals under a new rule that took effect Friday, part of a government effort to increase control over the military.
Prosecutors are investigating a failed attempt to rescue an Argentine climbing guide from a blinding snowstorm on the highest peak in the Americas after a video of the rescue expedition aired on national television in Argentina.
The grounds of the largest clandestine detention and torture center during Argentina's "dirty war" crackdown on dissent are now a United Nations human rights center.
A leading member of Argentina's former military junta was admitted to the cardiac unit of a naval hospital Thursday, a hospital spokesperson said.
Dakar Rally leader Carlos Sainz dropped out of the race after crashing into a ravine during Thursday's 12th stage.
Inside a once-secret detention center where political dissidents were tortured and killed during Argentina's dictatorship 25 years ago, forensic anthropologists have discovered a pit containing 10,000 bone fragments.
Argentine officials on Friday praised the nationalization of $23 billion in private pensions as good news for workers, while opposition leaders called it more of a looting than a reform.
Argentine stocks fell Wednesday after lawmakers approved a plan to nationalize pension funds. But other Latin American markets made modest gains despite continued concerns about the downturn in the global economy.
It was a glorious day in the Church of Maradona.
Diego Maradona will become Argentina's soccer coach next week, leaving the team in the hands of a national icon whose achievements on the field have been undercut by a long history of erratic behavior and drug abuse.
Brazilian stocks closed moderately higher Monday on news of a merger that would create South America's largest private-sector banking group, while Argentina's leading index climbed 4.6 percent.
President Cristina Fernandez proposed a government takeover of nearly US$30 billion in private pension funds on Tuesday, saying retirees must be protected from the global financial crisis.
Argentina on Monday announced its first nationwide gay-rights measure: granting same-sex couples the right to claim their deceased partners' pensions.
The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
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