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Buenos Aires Date Ideas

As romantic cities go, Buenos Aires is up there with the best of them. It bounces with energy during the day and turns all mysterious and sultry by night. A slight sense of danger always abounds, and the unpredictable turmoil of everyday living ensures your heart is always beating a bit faster than normal, your […]

Diego Maradona: The Man, the Myth

The only positive to come out of Argentina’s humiliating 0-4 loss to the Germans in the 2010 World Cup Quarter Finals is that at least the nation’s citizens didn’t have to undergo the ordeal of seeing once great footballer, Diego Maradona run through the streets of Buenos Aires naked, as he had promised to do […]

Football Argentina: The Classic Teams

Argentina’s First Division-Superliga (Super League) represents the best teams in the Argentine football. Argentina’s First Division Championship is considered one of the best in the world of football, so it’s hard to imagine that the first organized game took place at Buenos Aires Cricket club in 1867. In 1893 Argentina was the first country aside […]

Domestic Cricket in Argentina

Argentine Cricket may not be soaring on the international level but the domestic scene suggests more promising times ahead. The introduction of a Twenty20 competition is one boost. In a test match, the most professional version of the game, there are ninety overs in a day, and there are five days of play, thus the […]

Crazy Fist: The Life and Tragedies of Boxer Carlos Monzón

I made the whole world talk, their hearts beat. I made them see that everybody has blood. –Leon Gieco, Puño Loco The exemplar of calculated aggression in the boxing ring, Carlos Monzón was at times a blazing, uncontrollable menace out of it. He was Argentina’s über-celebrity of the 1970’s. He dated the most famous movie […]

12 Argentine Desserts: Alfajores, Medialunas & More

Don’t know the medialuna from chocotorta? This guide to Argentine desserts is here to help! Medialunas The medialuna, or sweet croissant, is ubiquitous in cafés throughout Argentina as a breakfast, mid-morning, or any-time snack — there is hardly a café or restaurant in the country which doesn’t serve them. Considered a breakfast food, […]