Tag Archives: argentina

The shame of Argentine Football

Posted on November 26, 2018 in the Misc category

In the Paraguayan Capital of Asuncion , hardly an icon of historic accountability, a group of South American football executives will meet tomorrow (Tuesday)  to decide when and how, if at all,  the second leg of the continent’s club championship Copa Libertadores final  between River Plate and Boca Juniors of Argentina  will be played. This is no routine meeting. It comes after the match initially scheduled for last Saturday was cancelled twice over the weekend as a result of a violent attack in Buenos Aires on the Boca team bus …

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Pope Francis and the Malvinas

Posted on August 20, 2015 in the Blog, Misc category

Pope Francis and the Malvinas The snapped moment of encounter projected fast and globally on the world wide web has become as much as a characteristic of the Francis papacy, as his twitter account @pontifex. This is a papacy with a charismatic personality and instinctive communicator at its helm. It is also a papacy advised by media specialists and diplomats that know something about the opportunity offered by the digital age to spread a message with an impact that would have inconceivable just a few years ago. Since Francis’s election, …

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Nisman puts Argentina in the dock

Posted on January 20, 2015 in the Uncategorized category

The discovery of the dead body of Argentine judge Alberto Nisman in his Buenos Aires flat has justifiably refocused international attention on a country that has always seemed to inhabit its very own political hinterland somewhere between a western democracy infiltrated by the Mafia and a third world banana republic. Nisman was found dead on Sunday night in his flat on the 13th floor of a luxury tower block in the capital’s prestigious Puerto Madero district just hours away from appearing before the country’s law makers in Congress to explain …

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