Mauritania and Zambia will be the Argentine men’s national football team rivals in its last friendly matches ahead of the World Cup, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) confirmed on Friday. After the cancellation of the Finalissima against Spain due to scheduling disagreements and FIFA’s refusal to allow Guatemala to play in different continents in the same international window, Argentina will host with Mauritania on March 27 and later face Zambia on the 31. Tickets for the game against Mauritania start at AR$90,000 (just under US$64) and go as high as ARS$490.000 (nearly US$348). While the core of the Argentina team that won the title at the Qatar 2022 World Cup will remain, it’s clear that head coach Lionel Scaloni will be testing out some alternatives against Mauritania and Zambia. The Argentine team, then, would focus mostly on which players can make the definitive list for the upcoming World Cup.

Operation Condor played a key role in the fate of María Claudia. The date cannot be confirmed, as there is no record that María Claudia was ever at the hospital. She is now María Macarena Gelman García Iruretagoyena. In 2017, four former military members and an ex-police officer were convicted of the murder of María Claudia García Iruretagoyena. “I ask myself why we couldn’t move any further.”Cover photo: Juan and Macarena Gelman (courtesy Macarena Gelman)

Namely, that on top of kidnapping, torturing, and forcefully disappearing 30,000 people, the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983 also looted their goods and laundered them through a series of businesses. Some parties involved even used the laundered goods to finance legitimate businesses that persisted even after the end of the dictatorship. “In Switzerland and many international banks, the Argentine dictatorship was seen as an administrative problem,” Andreas Fontana, the director of the film, told the Herald. An integral part of the laundering network, he was arrested in 1995 in Cádiz, where he had been living for years. He went on to say that money stolen from the desaparecidos circulated in two of the firm’s casinos in Tierra del Fuego.

Following the success of Art Masters and The Horizon of Khufu, DG Tech Lab has premiered its latest augmented virtual reality expedition La Última Fortaleza (The Last Fortress). A 45-minute immersive journey, the experience transports visitors to the year 1304 in Carcassonne, the largest fortified medieval city in Europe. Guided by Simon, a young noble, and Agnès, a rebel resident, participants explore a world where history meets fantasy, encountering knights, witches, and dragons amidst the looming shadow of the Inquisition. From bustling medieval markets and combat training to the private chambers of the nobility, the simulation offers a “living” history lesson. La Última FortalezaPabellón Frers, La Rural – Av.

Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in Budapest on Friday to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Leading far-right figures such as Orbán, Santiago Abascal (leader of the far-right Spanish political party Vox), and former Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro will also speak at the event. Far-right leaders Milei and Orban are allied with Trump. In February, a video of Milei and Orban singing “Burning Love” by Elvis Presley during a meeting of the Board in the U.S. circulated on social media. On Saturday, Milei will meet Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok, at the Sándor Palace.

The names and pictures shifted across four TV screens inside the packed conference room at Córdoba’s main federal justice building. Hipólito Atilio Valverde, son of Eduardo Jorge Valverde, said people sometimes ask him if this will “heal the wounds.”“No,” he answered. Graciela Geuna was a prisoner in La Perla together with her husband, Jorge Cazorla, who was murdered shortly after their capture. Cazorla’s remains were not among those identified, but in Loma del Torito, researchers found a medal that she had given her husband. So the violence isn’t just directed at those bodies—it’s directed at our bodies,” Geuna said in a conference.

The draws for the 2026 Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana were held on Thursday, with several Argentine teams learning who they’ll be up against. Historic teams and newcomers in the LibertadoresThe 2026 Copa Libertadores will see an interesting mix of footballing giants and up-and-coming sides take to the pitches. Torneo Apertura 2025 champions Platense have perhaps the toughest challenge of any Argentine team. Independiente Rivadavia, the Argentine debutant in the competition, was drawn into Group C alongside Brazil’s Fluminense, Bolivia’s Bolívar, and Venezuela’s La Guaira. Three giants in the SudamericanaThe 2026 Copa Sudamericana will see three of Argentina’s biggest clubs bid for glory and a return to the spotlight.

The experts stated that, due to this, Argentina is losing the position it had earned as a worldwide pioneer in seeking justice for human rights violations committed by the state. Also mentioned among the concerns are the dismantlement of institutions dedicated to the preservation of memory, the search for disappeared persons, and the promotion of human rights. “These measures undermine the foundations of transitional justice, democracy and the rule of law, while weakening guarantees of non-repetition,” the UN experts said. It must rather consolidate and build on its successful transitional justice legacy to ensure effective reconciliation and non-recurrence,” the UN experts said. The trials continueDespite the mentioned setbacks, the fight for memory, truth and justice in Argentina continues in the judiciary.

In 2023, I made a documentary exploring the relationship between photography, memory, and the forced disappearances and systematic murder in Argentina. In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup, we are thrilled to share (Dis)Appear with the Herald’s readers, especially at this critical juncture in Argentine memory politics. You will find the link to watch the film at the bottom of this story. (Dis)Appear tells the stories of Ana Iliovich, an author, psychologist, and survivor of clandestine detention center La Perla in Córdoba, and the photographer and artist Gabriel Orge. Just like Ana’s family portrait, the photo of Marta that Gabriel is using has a date printed on its wide border.

For Club Atlético Excursionistas, Bajo Belgrano is that home. In preparation for that year’s FIFA World Cup, bulldozers arrived to dismantle the Bajo Belgrano settlement, forcibly relocating its residents to the city’s outskirts, a strategy meant to hide poverty from international view. Instead, Excursionistas stands as a rare case of a club staying while its entire community was ripped out. The Excursionistas stadium around 1970Photo: Club Atlético ExcursionistasThe football team quickly achieved success, becoming a top-tier team by 1924. A self-proclaimed Excursionistas fan and Bajo Belgrano resident, he tried out for the club but was rejected because of his background.

Argentine rock artists only attracted a small crowd of devoted music lovers in dingy clubs and posh theaters that featured them on unusual dates, even Sunday mornings. Argentine rock seemed relegated to a cult following and was even resisted by tango and folklore acts that criticized the American and English origins of rock and roll hits. However, the local rock scene, which had only just been born a decade earlier, would play a key part in the cultural resistance to the dictatorship. Those who stayed in Argentina soon discovered that censors were clumsy and could not distinguish metaphors with cryptic references to social issues. Radio DJs soon rediscovered old and new Argentine rock albums and gave them intense airplay.

Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi reached 900 goals as a professional player on Wednesday. The 38-year-old scored Inter Miami’s sole goal in a 1-1 tie with Nashville. Messi now tallies 81 goals in 88 matches for Inter Miami, 672 goals in 778 matches with Barcelona, and 32 goals in 75 matches with PSG at the club level. Where does Messi stand among all-time official goal scorers in football? The Argentine star still trails Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo for the most official goals in football history, at 966.

Argentina flexibilized its regulation on pharmaceutical patents, eliminating a set of restrictions on foreign products that existed since 2012 and opening the door to imports. On Wednesday, the Argentine government overturned a 2012 resolution that established how pharmaceutical patents are analyzed and approved. The change means there will no longer be restrictions on certain categories of pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, which till now could only be patented by Argentine companies. The international pharmaceutical sector reportedly complained that the norm allowed for the proliferation of copycat products patented in Argentina. Deregulation minister Federico Sturzenegger, who was behind the decision, said on X that it represents “a transcendental improvement regarding intellectual property” in Argentina.

The airport strike planned for Wednesday through Tuesday was suspended after the government ordered union State Workers Association (ATE, by its Spanish initials) and commercial aviation agency ANAC to enter a 15-day pay negotiation period. During this interval, officially called a “mandatory conciliation,” neither party can carry out new measures affecting the labor situation, meaning that strikes are left without effect. The protest by the state workers was expected to cause delays and cancellations between March 18 and 24, coinciding with a four-day weekend ahead of the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, on Tuesday. Laborers represented by ATE include airport healthcare workers, firefighters, inspectors, administrative staff and land control personnel. ATE had already announced strikes in recent months but suspended them over mandatory conciliations dictated by the government.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted a motion Argentina had filed, requesting the discovery process over the 2012 expropriation of state-owned energy company YPF be postponed until the country’s appeal on the case is resolved. The dispute stems from the legal battle Argentina has been waging against Burford Capital in U.S. courts over the expropriation for more than a decade now. In 2023, Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the country had breached its contract and ordered it to pay US$16.1 billion, a judgment Argentina’s lawyers have appealed. The Argentine Treasury Attorney General’s Office, which is representing the government, had filed a formal request to halt discovery in late January. The complaint was also related to a discovery process in the case involving emails and messages from current and former officials.