Written by Natán Calzolari and Translated by Alex Higson Amidst a climate of rising tensions with the United Kingdom, the Argentinian government has decided to take the conflict over the sovereignty of the Falklands [1] to the UN. This year the debate on the subject has escalated, with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Prime Minister David Cameron exchanging […]
Argentina: President Cristina Fernández’ Controversial Cancer Diagnosis
Written by Natán Calzolari Tranlated by Louella Mahabir On December 27, 2011, the Casa Rosada revealed that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was suffering from a papillary thyroid carcinoma in the right lobe of her thyroid gland. The cancerous growth had been detected during a routine checkup on December 22. During the following days, the most […]
Italian Citizens Report and Reflect on L’Aquila Earthquake
by Bernardo Parrella On Monday April 6th, at 3:32am local time (01:32 GMT), L’Aquila, capital city of the central Abruzzo region, 60 miles northeast of Rome, was stricken by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake [en]. Even if the country is not new to such tragedies, this is Italy’s worst earthquake in three decades. The latest figures […]