The Legacy of the 2014 World Cup
In the World Cup final yesterday, Germany defeated Argentina with a last minute goal, ending their 24-year wait for another World Cup title.The 2014 World Cup was one for the ages. For starters,...
View ArticleAccusations Fly in Wake of Argentine Prosecutor's Mysterious Death
Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman's body was found beside the gun that shot him. His death comes mere days after he accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and top members of her...
View ArticleProsecutor Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Before His Death
The mysterious death of a prosecutor has citizens in Argentina on edge. Alberto Nisman was found in his apartment last month with a gunshot wound to the head.The cause of death is unknown, but Nisman...
View ArticleDecades After 'Dirty War,' Argentinians Find Long Lost Grandchildren
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.From 1976 to 1983, Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship who rounded up and killed left-wing political activists by the thousands. When...
View ArticleFrancisco Goldman on the legacy of Argentina’s Dirty War
This week in the magazine, Francisco Goldman writes about the heirs to the Argentine media company Clarín, and the attempt to establish whether they are the biological children of those who were...
View ArticleWinemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec
Ian Mount describes the nefarious scams, brilliant business innovations, and backroom politics that put Malbec on the map. For generations, Argentine wine was famously bad, but in 2001, a Cabernet...
View ArticleMirian Conti Captures Nostalgic Side of Argentinean Piano Music
American concert audiences can easily be led to believe that Argentinean music started and ended with Astor Piazzolla. He did, after all, internationalize that country’s greatest musical export, the...
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To Drive or Not To Drive: Two South American Countries Consider Congestion...
(photo by Alex E. Proimos via flickr)(Drew Reed -- This Big City) Whether they own a Prius or a Hummer, a Porsche or a Pinto, or anything in between, car owners all over the world can agree on one...
View ArticleFernando Otero on 'Romance'
Pianist and composer Fernando Otero was born in Argentina, and the sounds of tango and South American folk music echo throughout his works. The Latin Grammy winner has a new album out called Romance --...
View ArticleJP Jofre: 'Hard Tango' With Bandoneón
Don't be fooled by what you hear: Argentinean musician JP Jofre isn't an accordionist. He plays the bandoneón, a member of the concertina family that's known for being an essential part of tango...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Tremor, 'Huella'
“Digital cumbia” or “digital folklorico” are descriptors frequently applied to the Argentine trio Tremor, and they certainly fit a group that has made its name fusing the traditional sounds of South...
View ArticleVino Argentino
Laura Catena talks about the wines and culture of Argentina. Vino Argentino: An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina is part wine primer, part cultural exploration, and part...
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Seventy Years of Street Life in Latin America
Seven decades of life on the streets of Latin America, collected in one room. That's the premise of a new exhibit at the International Center of Photography, which is presenting works by photographers...
View ArticleThe new Argentine debt crisis resurrects painful memories and fears of...
Argentina defaulted for the second time in 13 years after last-ditch talks with US hedge funds collapsed. Many Argentines worry that unless a deal is reached, another default could crash the peso and...
View ArticleExpensive Prescriptions and Argentina's Default
Since the genome was sequenced 10 years ago, personalized medicine has started to catch fire. Pharmaceutical companies are now developing drugs for so-called orphan diseases, which affect only a small...
View ArticleA grandmother in Argentina finds her grandson after nearly 40 years
Estela de Carlotto has been searching for her grandson for 36 years. He was stolen during the Dirty War in Argentina. Now, after nearly four decades she has found him.
View ArticleHow an American scientist helps grandmothers in Argentina find their ‘stolen’...
For three decades, Mary-Claire King has led efforts to improve genetic technologies that can be used to identify the stolen children of Argentina’s Dirty War. Her partnership with The Grandmothers of...
View ArticleA Dream by the Hudson River
It's a surreal landscape: seven white beds lined up along Hudson River Park's Pier 45, with the Statue of Liberty in the background. The scene immediately raises images of intimacy, privacy and...
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Festival Brings Theater from Iran and Brazil
A love story in Iran. A family drama in Brazil. A tale of four filmmakers in Argentina.These are some of the themes of plays featured in The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival. In its 11th...
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[Unedited] Gustavo Santaolalla with Krista Tippett
Gustavo Santaolalla has composed film scores for over a dozen features including "Amores Perros," "The Motorcycle Diaries," "Brokeback Mountain," "Babel," "On the Road," and "Wild Tales." His latest...
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Gustavo Santaolalla — How Movie Music Moves Us
Movies, for some of us, are a form of modern church. The Argentinian composer and musician Gustavo Santaolalla creates cinematic landscapes — movie soundtracks that become soundtracks for life. He's...
View Article#3747: New Music From South America
For this New Sounds, sample music from Argentina, from Peru, Columbia, and from Brazil. There’s music from Argentinian visual artist and charango player Marina Fages from her 2013 record, “Madeira...
View ArticlePope Francis Wasn't Always So Humble
On becoming the leader of Argentina's Jesuit order in 1973, Jorge Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, was plunged into multiple crises.There was a split within his ranks over a South American movement...
View ArticleThe Argentinian New Yorkers Who Knew Pope Francis When
Sitting in the light-blue-walled basement of a nail salon in Queens, a thin, white-haired man named Daniel Green raised a tall glass of cold wine mixed with seltzer: "When I see other Latin Americans,...
View ArticleThe Story of How Jorge Mario Bergoglio Became Pope Francis
Writer Paul Vallely talks about his latest book titled, Pope Francis: Untying the Knots: the Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism. In it, Vallely delves into Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s hidden past, from...
View ArticleWatch: Shopping and Cooking in New York's Little Argentina
This month Lopate and Locavores, WNYC host Leonard Lopate's annual food series, returns to The Greene Space with an eye on international cuisine, inviting renowned experts to share authentic dishes...
View ArticleWatch: Shopping and Cooking in New York's Little Argentina
Leonard Lopate's annual food series, Lopate and Locavores, returned to The Greene Space at WNYC this fall with an eye on international cuisine, inviting renowned experts to share authentic dishes from...
View ArticleCaught in the Chaos of Argentina's Dirty War
A young couple is caught in the political chaos of Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty War in Ingrid Betancourt's new novel The Blue Line. Betancourt, a Colombian politician and activist who was held...
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In Buenos Aires, Obama aims to boost Argentina’s new leader
Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri (R) and President Barack Obama meet at the Casa Rosada government house in Buenos Aires. Photo by Carlos Barria/ReutersBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — After years of...
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Obama: U.S. will go after ISIS aggressively
Photo by Carlos Barria/ReutersBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A day after bombs ripped through Brussels, President Barack Obama declared that fighting the Islamic State is his “No. 1 priority” and pledged...
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Obama: U.S. slow to speak out for human rights in Argentina
President Barack Obama, speaking alongside Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri, paid tribute to victims of Argentina’s “Dirty War” on Thursday and promised the declassification of U.S. files related...
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Hello, Buenos Aires: The Obamas do the tango
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance a tango during a state dinner hosted by Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri at the Centro Cultural Kirchner as part of President Obama’s...
View ArticleBringing to Light U.S. Role in Argentina's Dirty War
During his visit to Argentina on the 40th anniversary of the military coup that "disappeared" thousands of people, Obama vowed to declassify documents showing the U.S. role in abetting Argentina's...
View ArticleAnywhere But Here
European Union leaders declared this week’s attack in Brussels an act of war; one former ISIS hostage says those declarations play into the terrorist group’s game plan. We look at what’s behind an...
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Argentine filmmaker remembers his country’s disappeared
As President Barack Obama concluded his Latin America trip in Argentina this week, he sought to mend one of the U.S.’s most historically troubled relationships in the region involving the rise of a...
View ArticleFleur Cowles' Literary Takedown of Eva Perón
Fleur and Evita; Two Strong Women Go Head-to-Head"I'm not an author," Fleur Cowles protests, at this 1952 Book and Authors Luncheon. The sole reason for writing BloodyPrecedent, a memoir of her trip to...
View ArticleReigniting the Falklands Conflict
Argentina's government praised a decision by a UN commission earlier this week that extends the maritime territory of the country by 35 percent into the South Atlantic Ocean. The expanded territory...
View Article76 Countries, 400 Journalists, 11.5 Million Documents
The Panama Papers, the result of more than a year of secret labor, shared among hundreds of reporters in dozens of countries, is an unprecedented feat of journalistic coordination. It’s also a project...
View ArticleTrapped in the Chaos of Argentina's Dirty War
This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on January 27, 2016.A young couple is caught in the political chaos of Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty War in Ingrid Betancourt's new...
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[Unedited] Gustavo Santaolalla with Krista Tippett
Gustavo Santaolalla has composed film scores for over a dozen features including "Amores Perros," "The Motorcycle Diaries," "Brokeback Mountain," "Babel," "On the Road," and "Wild Tales." His latest...
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Gustavo Santaolalla — How Movie Music Moves Us
Movies, for some of us, are a form of modern church. The Argentinian composer and musician Gustavo Santaolalla creates cinematic landscapes — movie soundtracks that become soundtracks for life. He's...
View ArticleVideo Webcast: 'Finding Mabel' New York Premiere Screening and Talkback
"Finding Mabel" is a gripping documentary that follows a young woman on her journey to Argentina as she tries to piece together the enigmatic disappearance of the woman she was named after — one of the...
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#3747: New Music From South America
For this New Sounds, sample music from Argentina, from Peru, Columbia, and from Brazil. There’s music from Argentinian visual artist and charango player Marina Fages from her 2013 record, “Madeira...
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Trump, Argentine President Macri hold White House talks
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his wife, Juliana Awada, to the White House in Washington on April 27, 2017. Photo by Kevin...
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Gustavo Santaolalla — How Movie Music Moves Us
Movies, for some of us, are a form of modern church. The Argentinian composer and musician Gustavo Santaolalla creates cinematic landscapes — movie soundtracks that become soundtracks for life. He's...
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7 Magnificent Concert Halls to Feast Your Eyes On
You go to the concert hall to (hopefully) hear great music. But even though the sound of the orchestra and human voice might be the main draw, we know that gorgeous surroundings are more than an added...
View ArticleArgentines in New York Reeling After Manhattan Attack
The Argentine community in New York is reeling after five men were killed and five others injured when a truck barreled down a West Side bike lane in a Tuesday. Mateo Estrémé, Consul General of...
View ArticleGig Alert: Juana Molina at Le Poisson Rouge
Gig Alert: Juana Molina at Le Poisson RougeTickets: $25. 18+. Doors at 7PM/Show at 8PM.The Argentine singer, guitarist and electronic music producer Juana Molina paid for her guitar lessons by working...
View ArticleArgentine Submarine Remains Missing With 44 Crew on Board
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. A multinational operation is underway to recover an Argentine submarine and its 44-member crew, which has been missing since last...
View Article#3747: New Music From South America
For this New Sounds, sample music from Argentina, from Peru, Columbia, and from Brazil. There’s music from Argentinian visual artist and charango player Marina Fages from her 2013 record, “Madeira...
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