Argentine writer Selva Almada’s Not a River made it into the International Booker Prize’s longlist of 13 finalists, which was announced on Monday. “The list heralds a second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction,” reads the official announcement on the Booker Prize website. When asked last year why Ireland has the best writers, after four Irish authors appeared on the Booker Prize 2023 longlist, the eventual winner Paul Lynch said: ‘Can I let you into a secret? I think South America has the best writers.’”The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to a single work of fiction from anywhere in the world, translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. The last Argentine author to make the International Booker shortlist was Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with The Adventures of China Iron, a feminist take on the 19th-century traditional Argentine poem Martín Fierro.

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A week after Télam workers found their newsroom unexpectedly fenced off by police, the public news agency offered voluntary layoffs to its employees through an official statement published on Monday. A worker’s assembly unanimously rejected the idea. The offer is open to all permanent staff employees, offering tax-free compensation according to age and time at the company. “There’s nothing voluntary about it when they are putting barriers and police cars and treat us as criminals,” Télam union delegate Tomás Eliaschev told the Herald. With around 700 employees, Télam is the biggest news agency in Argentina.

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The National government will send federal, navy and military police to Rosario, Santa Fe, to help local forces combat a spike in homicides linked to organized crime after four people were murdered in the past week. President Javier Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich created a Crisis Committee at the request of Santa Fe governor Maximiliano Pullaro to respond to the spike in violence in the city. In recent years, homicides in Rosario have skyrocketed as a product of organized crime and the drug trade. The message said gangs from around the city are now united in a “war” against governor Maximiliano Pullaro and local Security Minister Pablo Cococcioni to demand the authorities let them see their families. In text released with the image, the authorities promised that matters would “get worse” for the inmates.

CarpetazoAs with all of today’s translation troubles, this one came up in newsroom conversation. The word carpeta means folder and gave rise to a lunfardo verb carpetear, meaning to spy on someone (kind of like the origins of keeping tabs on people). As a fun aside, unripe eggplants are white and round and look remarkably egg-like (and there’s also a white variety). For the sake of diplomacy and continued translation fun I won’t be stepping into either figurative vegetable patch, thank you very much. Share your thoughts and translation hang-ups with us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!

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The Milei administration and the provincial governors are ready to move forward with the discussion of a new omnibus bill, Interior Minister Guillermo Francos said on Friday in a press conference following a four-hour meeting at Casa Rosada. Both governors showed their support for a new omnibus bill and their openness to working with the federal government. Frigerio also welcomed the issues Milei listed as part of the “May pact,” saying there were a good guiding pont. The Milei administration presented the original omnibus bill, a massive, 351-page-long, 664-article project aimed at deeply reforming the Argentine state, in late December. The interior minister said that the government will look to present a bill addressing both topics in the coming weeks.

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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty on Friday of drug trafficking conspiracy by a U.S. jury, cementing the onetime U.S. ally’s fall from grace. He had pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking conspiracy and criminal weapons possession charges. At the trial, several convicted traffickers testified they had bribed Hernández. Prosecutors said Hernández used drug cash to bribe officials to manipulate voting results in his favor during Honduras’ 2013 and 2017 presidential elections. “I had a policy against all those people because I could not stand them,” Hernández said of drug traffickers.

Source: FEIM study on child marriage in Argentina, based on 2010 national census data. It is most common in northeastern Argentina, affecting 7.2% of girls aged 14-18 in Misiones province, 6.9% in Chaco, and 6.4% in Formosa, the study found. Under Argentine law, girls cannot marry until they turn 18 unless they have the permission of their parents or a judge. In most cases, these girls are living with partners in what FEIM calls child unions. In February, with support from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Argentina, FEIM presented an art installation called “the pink house” in the University of Buenos Aires law faculty.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has extended a state of emergency in the South American country by 30 days as his administration grapples with rising violence blamed on drug trafficking gangs. Noboa, the 36-year-old son of one of the country’s richest businessmen, has designated 22 gangs as terrorist groups. During the state of emergency, intentional homicides have been halved – falling from an average of 24 a day to 12 a day – the decree said. Fourteen alleged criminals have died during operations and 3,300 arms and 64.3 tonnes of drugs have been seized, it said. States of emergency were frequently used by Noboa’s predecessor, Guillermo Lasso, to try and tackle rising violence on the streets and in prisons, but to little effect.

In a move seemingly meant to tone down its conflict with provincial leaders over federal tax shares, the Milei administration announced on Thursday that it will provide provinces with additional funding for education. Although the law that regulates educational funding and contains said provision has already expired, the specific article regarding shareable taxes has been renewed over the years in order to guarantee funding for education. “The specific assignment of shareable resources is intended to raise the educational budget for the provinces and BA City. A couple weeks ago, Chubut Governor Ignacio Torres (PRO) said he would stop delivering oil and gas to the rest of the country unless his province received its share of federal tax funds. Last week, Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof announced he would take the Milei administration to the Supreme Court to demand that federal tax funding be restored to the province.

Revenues in the fourth quarter totaled NIS 101 million , compared to revenues of NIS 86 million in the corresponding quarter last year, an 18% increase. The adjusted profit in 2023 totaled NIS 89 million , compared to NIS 51 million in 2022, an increase of 74%. The adjusted profit in the fourth quarter totaled NIS 23 million , compared to NIS 13 million in the corresponding quarter last year, an increase of 70%. The adjusted EBITDA for 2023 totaled NIS 158 million , compared to NIS 135 million in 2022, an increase of 17%. The adjusted profit in 2023 totaled NIS 89.3 million, compared to NIS 51.4 million in 2022, an increase of 74%.

The Buenos Aires subway line D will reopen on Thursday, Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has announced. The line, which runs from the central business district through Palermo to Núñez, had been closed since January 8 for signaling system renovations. “We’ve sped up the modernization works and managed to reopen the D line ahead of time,” Macri posted on his X account. In January, the company operating the subway system announced the D line would be down while it upgraded to a more modern signaling system. In 2023, over 54 million passengers used the D line.