An Argentine woman holds a placard stating: ‘There are no healthy bodies in sick lands’, at the nationwide general strike to protest the extractivist policies of President Milei in January 2024.Photo: Daniella Fernandez Realin/ZUMA Press Wire

Sign of the Times

Argentina: "No hay cuerpos sanos en territorios enfermos".

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Inflation to extremism

Inflation to extremism

Harriet Barber reports on ‘Argentina’s Trump’, Javier Milei.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Illustration: Sarah John

Festive heat

The run-up to Buenos Aires’ midsummer Christmas is when society can begin to buckle – and come together. Virginia Tognola captures the mixed mood of the season.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Illustration: Sarah John

Setting off and returning

A visit to her family home leads Virginia Tognola to reflect on her life’s journey

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Illustration: Sarah John

Cheers to us

Her first job as a penniless university student has a special place in Virginia Tognola’s memories.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Illustration: Sarah John

The big blackout

Being forced to go without electricity sparks thoughts about living differently for Virginia Tognola.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Indigenous spokesperson Lorena Bravo, wrapped in a Mapuche flag, looks towards a gas plant at Campo Maripe, a land claimed by her community, in Anelo, Neuquen province.Photo: Emiliano Lasalvia/AFP via Getty Images

The fracked earth

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Meanwhile the government offers sweetheart deals. Grace Livingstone reports.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Illustration: Sarah John

Taking back the streets

How do you protest against discrimination? With dancing and song among other things, observes Virginia Tognola.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Illustration: Sarah John

Something in the air

Virginia Tognola begins her series from the Argentinian capital with a reflection on the strange nature of security in the big city.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
The moment they’d been hoping for: crowds held an overnight vigil outside Argentina’s National Congress in Buenos Aires to await the outcome of the Senate’s vote on abortion law. As the result came in there was mass celebration.Photo: Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EFE/Alamy

Message of hope

Argentina has legalized elective abortion, reports Carla Gago.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Photos (clockwise from top left): The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo during their weekly demonstration to establish the fate of their disappeared children and grandchildren during the 1976-83 dictatorship; statues of footballer Carlos Tevez and revolutionary icon Che Guevara in the La Boca quarter of Buenos Aires; colourful houses and artwork also in La Boca, which is famous for the Argentine tango; harvesting the traditional way near the village of Juella in the northwest of the country.All photos from Majority World: Julio Etchart, Julio Etchart, Jeremy Jowell, Andres Lofiego.

Country Profile: Argentina

The photos, facts, and politics of Argentina.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
We dance

We dance

Update on queer tango from Argentina by Nina Meghji.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Protesters against Argentina’s hunger crisis gather for a brew, 5 September 2019. They had camped out overnight in front of the Ministry of Social Development in Buenos Aires.Photo: Carol Smiljan/NurPhoto/PA

Argentina’s big squeeze

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Fracking frontline

Fracking frontline

Report from Argentina by Anna Galkina

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017

The ugly face of Benetton

The forcible expulsion of the Mapuche from land that now turns a profit for Benetton dates back to colonization, write Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman.

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NI 501 - Populism rises again - April, 2017
Dora Macoviak: ‘If we want to do something, we have to do it ourselves.’Photo: Rodrigo Llauro

Putting poor Argentineans on the map

Peter Lykke Lind explains one community's small victory.

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NI 489 - Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better - January, 2016
Mapuche refuse fracking

Mapuche refuse fracking

Claire Fauset reports on resistance and repression.

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NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015
‘I lost my daughter because of a birth defect.’ Argentinean activist Sofía Gatica has been fighting the aerial spraying of toxic agro-chemicals.Eilís O'Neill

No joy in soy

Demand for genetically modified soy is changing the face of Argentina. And not for the better, says Eilís O’Neill.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
Two flags – one national, and one Amerindian –  flying together as indigenous people and their supporters fight to save an ancient burial ground from property developers.Vanessa Baird

A clash of dreams

Indigenous Argentineans, disrespected and ignored for too long, are forging new alliances in their quest to safeguard the natural world.

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NI 463 - Argentina's challenge - June, 2013

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Bad Education September, 2017
Populism rises again April, 2017
Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better January, 2016
10 economic myths December, 2015
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Argentina's challenge June, 2013
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