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VIDEO: Papelnonos

VIDEO: Papelnonos

Hannah Flint heads out with the Papelnonos – network of retirees who make musical instruments out of paper mache and give weekly performances at schools across the country.

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Top 5 Investigations

Top 5 Investigations

In our ‘going to print’ campaign, we are reminding readers of the good times, highlighting the best parts of the last six years’ coverage, from articles, to series, to videos. This week, our favourite images.

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Mediated Women: Female Representation in the Argentine Media

Mediated Women: Female Representation in the Argentine Media

In a country where gender violence is a growing concern, Jess Cotton analyses how the representation of women in Argentine media perpetuates negative stereotypes.

Posted in TOP STORY, Urban Life2 Comments

Project of the Week: Newi, Together Wi Give

IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. Not quite halfway through university, 20-year-old Daniel Jaramillo is closer to launching […]

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La Perla: Where Solar Energy Powers Social Development

La Perla: Where Solar Energy Powers Social Development

Lillo Montalto Monella heads to the Western suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires to La Perla, a social housing project that is being slowly transformed into Argentina’s first solar-powered neighbourhood.

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VIDEO: The Cartoneros of Buenos Aires

VIDEO: The Cartoneros of Buenos Aires

Robin Minchom spends a day with Rosa and Chavez, two of thousands of urban recyclyers – known locally as cartoneros – working on the streets of Buenos Aires.

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Silent Victims: Inside Buenos Aires’ Unregulated Nursing Homes

Silent Victims: Inside Buenos Aires’ Unregulated Nursing Homes

Megan Cassidy exposes the bleak reality inside nursing homes in Buenos Aires, and the capacity constraints that give rise to dangerous unregistered and unchecked establishments known as ‘truchos’.

Posted in TOP STORY, Urban Life1 Comment

VIDEO: ESMA – Argentina’s Human Rights Museum

VIDEO: ESMA – Argentina’s Human Rights Museum

Marc Rogers visits ESMA with Víctor Basterra, a survivor of the ex-clandestine detention centre in Buenos Aires, now a memorial for the 30,000 disappeared during Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship.

Posted in Analysis, Human Rights, TOP STORY, Video4 Comments

The Social Mobility Paradox and the Educational Crisis in Argentina

The Social Mobility Paradox and the Educational Crisis in Argentina

Once a matter of national pride, the Argentine educational system is today in crisis, and has become a microcosm of the challenges confronting the rest of the world. Patricia Di Filippo investigates.

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School of Assassins: Past and Present of the School of the Americas

School of Assassins: Past and Present of the School of the Americas

The school is US Army education facility which has spent decades training members of Latin American armed forces, many of whom have gone on to participate in military coups. Celina Andreassi looks at the history of the notorious institution.

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