'We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers,' wrote proponents of an international tournament boycott that year.

Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armoured dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that probably walked upright on its back legs roaming a then-steamy landscape about 100m years ago.

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government’s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country’s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles. The hack, which took place last month, targeted RENAPER, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as National Registry of Persons.

On April 4, 1977, I renewed my passport at the Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police. I was working with the Peace and Justice Service, a Latin American movement that advocates for peace and human rights through active nonviolence. We were fighting the oppression of the Latin American people by military dictatorships. At the Department of Police, without a judicial process, I was arrested. I never imagined this would become the worst moment of my life. I was detained and tortured for 14 months.

The skeleton is still far from complete but paleontologists say what they've found suggests the dinosaur may be more than 120 feet long

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law went into force Sunday under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full...

The Senate vote on Wednesday was a major victory for Latin America’s growing feminist movement, and its ripple effects are likely to be widespread.

A 12-year-old girl has given birth to twins in Argentina after being denied an abortion by local authorities despite having been raped. Authorities in Jujuy forced the child to remain pregnant until the twins could be safely delivered by caesarean section. Legislation around abortion is extremely strict in Argentina, which only legalised the procedure in cases of rape last year.

“There is greater general poverty. We are all a little poorer—we already were last year—and now with greater inequality,” said Argentinian researcher Agustín Salvia.

The comments of a parrot may be used in an upcoming rape and murder trial. Elizabeth Toledo, 46, was raped and then killed in the city of San Fernando, Argentina in December 2018. At the end of the month a police officer was guarding the crime scene when they heard a parrot say "Ay, no, Por favour, soltame!" ("No, please, let me go"), Clarin reports.

It's time for Paul Singer to start buying up Argentina bonds again, and confiscating ships again.

Full details of the horrific ordeal to which an 11-year-old girl impregnated by an elderly rapist in Argentina was subjected by doctors intent on ensuring the baby survived for religious reasons have been disclosed by campaigners acting on her behalf. The young girl, who is being called “Lucia” to protect her identity, became pregnant after being raped by her grandmother’s 65-year-old partner, who has since been arrested. She was placed under her grandmother’s care in 2015, after her two older sisters were reportedly abused by her mother’s partner.

Massive project aims to improve predictions of intense lightning, hail and flash floods in the shadow of the Andes mountains.

An Argentine police officer is being hailed a hero after breastfeeding a malnourished baby while on duty at a children’s hospital. Celeste Jaqueline Ayala was working her shift at Sor Maria Ludovica Hospital in Buenos Aires when she heard a baby crying incessantly. Ayala, who is the mother of a newborn baby, asked hospital staff if she could hold and comfort the crying baby.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Hundreds of people gathered in Buenos Aires on Saturday to oppose the influence of religion on Argentine politics and encourage people to quit the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of a Senate vote not to legalize some abortions. The event, called "Collective Apostasy," centered on a signature drive for Argentines wanting to renounce their affiliation to the church through a form that will later be given to the Episcopal Conference in the homeland of Pope Francis. People formed long lines in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities, and organizers hoped thousands would officially register their desire that the...

The vote in Pope Francis’ homeland was close, but women’s rights activists ultimately ran up against the power of the Catholic Church and social conservatism.

The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) has this month eased regulations regarding automatic teller machines in the country. The (perhaps unexpected) upshot of this has been a plan to install 4000 new crypto-enabled ATMs. Rules, Rules, Rules The new regulations do not contain any direct reference to bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Rather, they allow the installation of ATMs in non-banking establishments, such as supermarkets...

A former SS scientist may have been set to destroy the Bolivian coca crop with his secret bioweapon - until he got whacked. By Mat Youkee.

Attempts by Argentina's right-wing government to drive through an attack on the country's pension system last month were met by mass protests that brought the capital of Buenos Aires to a halt--and that were attacked by riot police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.

A crusading Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of the country’s former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on charges of “treason against the fatherland,” accusing her of covering up Iranian involvement in the country’s worst-ever terrorist attack. The 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish cultural centre, AMIA, killed 85 people. No one has ever been successfully prosecuted for the crime.