Argentina

A.L. Lloyd savours modern Argentina, “a civilization of horses, cattle and leather”.

Patrick Bishop’s first assignment as a foreign correspondent was to accompany the British task force sent to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands in April 1982. Thirty years on, he recalls his experience.

Thirty years after the Falklands War the bitter debate over the South Atlantic islands remains clouded in historical ignorance, argues Klaus Dodds

Richard Cavendish describes how Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina on May 11th, 1960.

Following his re-election in 1952, Juan Peron was overthrown on September 19th, 1955.

Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Aidan Rankin examines the struggle of the Wichí Indians of North Argentina who fight back against discrimination in their daily lives.

Peter Beck looks back on the importance of Argentina's history.

The Argentinian writer Borges described the combatants in the Falklands War as being like 'two bald men fighting over a comb.' But thirty years before, Britain and Argentina nearly came to blows over territory far more remote and inhospitable.

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

Peter J. Beck explores how Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands has involved diplomacy carried on by cartographic and philatelic means for nearly two centuries.