BUENOS AIRES AS ARGENTINA? Argentina is a country of two parts. Buenos Aires – the sprawling capital city and its suburbs, playing home to a third of the country’s total population of 40 million – and the rest of the country, dubbed ‘the interior’ by porteños (Buenos Aires inhabitants). This myth leads to the idea [...]

Argentine politics can be sometimes hard to understand, and reading the news is often confusing if you don’t know how the system works. The following should make things clearer and help you to better understand Argentine politics. How does democracy work in Argentina? In Argentina, the president is both head of the state and head [...]

With a population of 40 million (one-third of whom live in and around the capital Buenos Aires) and an area of 2.8 million km2 (1/3 the size of the US), it is hard to describe all that Argentina has to offer. It contains a vast range of beauty from mountains to river, coast to cities, [...]

The autonomous city of Buenos Aires is Argentina’s federal capital and has a population of almost 3 million inhabitants. The city runs 19km north to south and 18km east to west with the murky waterways of Río de la Plata and the Riachuelo as the natural boundaries to the north, east and south, and the [...]