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 [...]

SPORT Fútbol, fútbul y fútbol. Do not miss out on going to a game. There are six top flight clubs in the capital alone and so it’s not just about seeing the internationally-known Boca Juniors play. Be careful though, some of the games are not the safest to be around; clasicós, or the local derbies, [...]

Having been in Buenos Aires for over a year and spotted a gap in the market, at the end of last year Anna Templeton launched Au Pair in Argentina, an au pairing agency aimed at connecting parents with those wanting to come to the country and spend time working with children. The Argentina Independent talked to her and discussed her experiences setting up a business in Argentina.

In Europe or in the US, if we took a poll to find out what the biggest concern was, many people would immediately reply: the credit crunch. But the response would be slightly different in Latin America and especially in Argentina where the economy has not been hit quite so hard. One question remains: why has the country escaped the worst of the financial crisis?