• Elena Sala

Javier Milei rose to power promising freedom — but his government is unleashing economic violence, criminalizing dissent, and testing the limits of Argentina’s democracy.

• Rachel Dubale

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?

• Ezequiel Tedesco

One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.

• Pablo Pyrluka

The challenge presented by Argentina: What is the best way to deal with global fiscal pressures in a local context of high expectations and public demands?

• Ryan Brunette

The July riots in South Africa felt similar to those by Peronists in Argentina in December 2001. But Zuma’s people are moving from a much weaker position.

• John Reynolds

For the peripheries and proletarians of the world — most of the world — Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.

• Jesica Paola Kessler

Argentina crashed out of the 2018 World Cup. It's not Messi's fault.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

What happened when an Argentinean cartoonist took inspiration from an iconic moment in African-American struggle, replaced the black athletes with monochrome white figures to make a point about gay rights.

• Alice de Vries

A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: " . . .  a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The contrast between Argentina, where military officials from the dictatorship are still jailed for crimes, while in South Africa apartheid's leaders received amnesty, pensions, and privilege.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.