Today, the British-made Skyvan airplane, now 50 years old, is grounded for good at the former Navy School of Mechanics, or ESMA, in Buenos Aires. The facility, once a death camp, is now a museum and a memorial to the 30,000 citizens tortured and murdered during Argentina’s dictatorship. The Skyvan, …
Every once in a while we come across a story so extraordinary that it resists belief. Tonight, the saga of an airplane that doubled as an instrument of murder. During Argentina’s ruthless dictatorship in the mid 70s, the Skyvan PA-51 was used to throw victims alive into the Atlantic ocean, …
The scandal began with a tweet. “The world wants to invest in Argentina,” Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, posted at 7:01 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, offering a code to buy a new cryptocurrency. The digital coin was called $Libra, and it had been created 23 minutes earlier. Over the next few …
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, during a news conference at the Mercosur Leaders Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union’s blockbuster trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc is widely regarded as highly controversial, with …
LONDON: HSBC is selling its business in Argentina and booking a $1 billion loss on the deal, the bank said on Tuesday, as it continues to shrink its once globe-spanning empire to focus on Asia. HSBC is selling the business, which covers banking, asset management and insurance, to Argentina’s fifth …
Argentina captain Lionel Messi will not join his teammates on the field for their international friendly against Costa Rica on Wednesday, Sportstar reported. The 36-year-old soccer legend recently suffered a leg muscle injury which has kept him out of the the international break. Previously, Messi’s unfortunate injury kept him out …
