Argentina

Dismissed by friends and launched in an era when women lacked the vote, Ocampo’s Sur magazine became a defining force in 20th-century literature and politics

It is the second most-spoken first language in the world, and opens doors across continents and careers – yet British schools still insist on teaching French

To survive the club culture of Buenos Aires, you need stamina and a willingness to let go of British ideas about bedtime

Mate is a difficult taste to get used to. But if you do try it, make sure you pretend to like it – or else

Jaguars were hunted to the brink of extinction in the forests of the north. Now, they’re back

Two showmen, $40bn and one very fragile economy: what could possibly go wrong?

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

A wave of female writers use pitch-black fairytales to address the evil in Argentina’s past

The self-styled Brexit 'hardman' is launching a new think tank attempting to ape the Argentine president

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

Argentinians like what their president has done on inflation. The problem is that plenty of them hate everything else about him

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

The writer shared a deep, collaborative friendship with his kindred spirit Adolfo Bioy Casares, who became his literary double

Milei's press clampdowns are attracting international coverage. But that isn't stopping him, if anything the president is doubling down

President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it

Using teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons against a demonstration of pensioners is reminiscent of the country’s past

Argentina is one of the most politically forward-thinking countries in Latin America but its president is pushing a narrative that opposes feminism

The populist leaders of Argentina and Venezuela fly under the radar in the northern hemisphere, but the threat they pose is very real

How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?

This lesson is as old as the 1930s but clearly it takes a long time to learn

Two-thirds of Argentinians are descended from the old country.. and the two nations share some of the same problems

Why do the names of Messi and Pochettino sound like they hail from closer to Bologna than to Buenos Aires?