The story of a family of Cape Vert immigrants, who moved to Argentina in the 1970s, as seen by Jessie Akin.

Medical students are increasingly using the skeletons of exhumed corpses from Chacarita Cemetery to complete their studies. Helen Morgan investigates.

This year Ph15 celebrates the 10th anniversary of their organisation. Formed with a drive to use photography to promote social inclusion, the group was conceived at the initiative of adolescents from the “Ciudad Oculta” (Hidden City).

Buenos Aires is seen to be a cosmopolitain city. Yet despite the acceptance of trans-prostitutes in certain districts, discrimination against transsexuals is still rife in Argentina, as Hannah Vinter reports.

On the tenth anniversary of his death, Hannah Vinter looks at the life of Dr René Favaloro, the first doctor in the world to successfully perform a cardiac-bypass, who took his own life with a shot through the heart.

Luján zoo provides visitors the opportunity intimately interact with its animals. But it has been slammed as one of the worst zoos in Argentina, an example of how zoos exploit animals for commercial gain.

“The government will not be closing El Borda. You don’t have anything to write about.” Well, the government may not be closing the hospital any time soon, but there is plenty to write about. El Borda has been mired in controversy and concern since the government announced two years ago that there were plans to close the largest and most famous psychiatric hospital in Argentina.

Sub, a photographic cooperative, recently exhibited a series of photos taken in two barrios of Buenos Aires, La Boca and Barracas. Neither of these barrios are particularly picturesque. La Boca has the photogenic Caminito, but there’s nothing there that hasn’t been reprinted in a million postcards. However, their photos created a journey of discovery that took the viewer through the lives of the people within these barrios.

“The poor man has to disappear. There is no more countryside. It’s all private neighbourhoods. All private neighbourhoods.” They are the words of Sara Espinosa, 94, who lives in Punta Canal in the town of Tigre, just metres away from the waters of Canal Villanueva. Despite living here for more than half a century, in the past few years she has found herself increasingly isolated from the world beyond her home thanks to fences and a wall of mud built around it by real estate giant EIDICO.

A country with such a large territory like Argentina has always needed a reliable transport mode to connect its regions and different provinces. The booming railway network once boasted 47,000km of track, but mismanagement has led to the decline of what was the world’s tenth largest railway network, leaving many scars in the country’s demography.