Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and one of the country’s most polarizing political figures, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday and barred for life from public office after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction. The ruling is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and comes after Mrs. Kirchner, who was…
Argentina’s Supreme Court discovered 83 boxes of Nazi-era materials in its basement, items that had been stored there since World War II. The court uncovered the materials while preparing for a museum exhibition. The boxes had reached Buenos Aires in June 1941, sent from the German embassy at Tokyo on board the Japanese steamship “Nan-a-Maru.”…
The scandal began with a tweet. “The world wants to invest in Argentina,” Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, posted at 7:01 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, offering a code to buy a new cryptocurrency. The digital coin was called $Libra, and it had been created 23 minutes earlier. Over the next few hours, thousands of people invested….