Mark Sanford Engaged to Argentine Girlfriend
Honeymoon on the Appalachian Trail? More than a year and a half after unceremoniously leaving office, Mark Sanford is engaged to Argentine mistress Maria Belén Chapur, reports CNN , which also has...
View ArticleArgentina Grumbles as Falklanders Vote on Future
The 1,675 eligible voters in the Falkland Islands are being asked whether they want to remain British and only the scale of the "yes" vote in the two-day referendum is in doubt. Argentina, which claims...
View ArticleFalklands Votes to Stay British, 1,513 to 3
The referendum on whether Falkland Islanders want to remain British has ended with a vote overwhelmingly in favor of the status quo. With turnout above 90%, 1,513 voters wanted the disputed islands to...
View ArticleDark Cloud in Francis' Past: The Dirty War
Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive , one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina,...
View ArticleDon't Expect Gay Rights to Advance Under Francis
Humble, yes . A champion of social justice and the underprivileged, sure. But Pope Francis is also a strict conservative on church doctrine, which means that even though polls show most Catholics favor...
View ArticlePope's Young Sweetheart Recalls His Love Letter
Apparently you can credit Amalia Damonte for Jorge Bergoglio becoming Pope Francis—or perhaps her father, reports the Week . When Bergoglio was just 12, he had a young "romance" with Damonte, writing a...
View ArticleVatican: There's No Evidence Pope Helped Junta
The Vatican today addressed the whispers that the new pope seemed to get along with Argentina's military dictatorship in the '70s. "There has never been a credible, concrete accusation against him,"...
View ArticleBergoglio Backed Gay Civil Unions
Pope Francis has made some uncompromising statements on issues like gay marriage but he also has a strong pragmatic streak that could hint at changes to come for the Catholic church, the New York Times...
View ArticlePope Phones Home, Cancels Newspaper
The guy who started the first day of his papacy by settling his hotel bill is running more errands: This time it was an Argentine newspaper vendor left with his mouth hanging open when someone named...
View ArticlePope Calls for Aid as Argentina Floods Kill 52
Pope Francis is calling for public and church institutions in his native Argentina to step up assistance to the tens of thousands of people left homeless by torrential rains that have killed at least...
View ArticleUK Snubs Argentina at Thatcher Funeral
The latest fallout from the Britain-Argentina Falkland Islands feud : A government source tells Reuters that Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is not invited to Margaret Thatcher's funeral next...
View ArticleOnce-Submerged Town Resurfaces
A strange ghost town that spent a quarter-century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires. Epecuen was once a bustling little lakeside resort, where...
View ArticleArgentine Dictator Videla Dies in Prison
Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called...
View ArticleArgentina Train Wreck Kills 3
A double-decker commuter train collided with a train that had stopped between two stations outside Buenos Aires today, killing at least three people and injuring 150 more, CNN reports. Emergency crews...
View ArticleNew Argentine Rule: Welfare Money Goes to Mom, Not Dad
A new decree by Argentina's female president is designed to help women abandoned by husbands who skip out after fathering a family. From now on, mothers will collect welfare payments instead of...
View ArticleIncas Drugged Child-Sacrifice Victims First
About the best that can be said about three children killed by the Incas in a sacrifice ritual 500 years ago is that they might not have felt a thing. New analysis of hair samples from the mummies...
View ArticleMan Rescued in Andes Was Fleeing Child Sex Charges
The man who survived on raisins and rats while lost in the Andes for four months may not have exactly wanted to be found: It turns out Raul Fernando Gomez Cincunegui got lost while fleeing child sex...
View ArticleSurgery Set for Argentina President's Head Injury
Argentina President Cristina Fernandez landed back in the hospital today, just after she was put on a month of bed rest for a subdural hematoma, and doctors have scheduled surgery for tomorrow to drain...
View ArticleArgentines Say Agrochemicals Causing Birth Defects, Cancer
Argentina is the third-largest soybean producer in the world, and also grows a lot of cotton and corn. Nearly all of it is now genetically modified, since Monsanto convinced farmers to switch to its...
View Article2 New Moms Sent Home With Wrong Babies
Two new mothers in Argentina would still be caring for the wrong infants if they hadn't acted on their suspicions. As it was, they took home the wrong babies and cared for them for three weeks thanks...
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