News of chaos

Pandemic policy discord deepens Brazil's Covid chaos

07-04-2021 09:33 Changing and poorly explained quarantines, contradictory judgements, erroneous vaccination forecasts: in Brazil, the global epicentre of the pandemic, the fight against the coronavirus is being conducted in the greatest confusion.

UNITED STATES

Trump vows 'orderly transition' as US Congress certifies Biden win

07-01-2021 08:55 The United States Congress formally certified Joe Biden as the nation's next president on Thursday, dealing a hammer blow to Donald Trump whose supporters stormed the Capitol hours earlier.

DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA (1960-2020)

Nation bids chaotic final farewell to its favourite son

28-11-2020 08:56 Huge crowds bade a grief-filled farewell to Diego Armando Maradona on Thursday, before the legendary footballer was buried on the outskirts of Buenos Aires after a chaotic public wake.

EDITORIAL

Witching hours, from Guernica to Washington DC

31-10-2020 10:48 Viewing current affairs at home and abroad from this perspective of witches and saints seems as good an approach as any right now.

AS I SEE IT

Dreaming of a military alternative

29-08-2020 10:04 Military rule may no longer be an alternative, but chaos most certainly is.

by James Neilson

Global uncertainty

Extremists see global chaos from virus as an opportunity

03-04-2020 20:15 Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic as an opportunity to win over more supporters and strike harder than before.

Sport chaos

Isolated abroad, footballers learn to deal without the game

29-03-2020 20:33 The riches, glamour and glory of playing football in front of packed stadiums attracts the world's top players across borders but with the European game in lockdown, many have been left isolated from their families.

Sport chaos

Uruguayan football federation lays off 400, including coach Tabárez

29-03-2020 18:44 All employees of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF), including coach Tabarez, will receive unemployment insurance benefits since activities were suspended due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus consequences

Coronavirus throws international competitions into chaos

11-03-2020 16:13 As sporting events in more countries on Wednesday are cancelled or pushed behind doors to avoid spread of coronavirus, problems are mounting up.

STRIKE ACTION

Transport chaos: Five-hour train strike leaves 500,000 stranded

01-11-2019 09:16 All overground train lines – Mitre, San Martín, Sarmiento, Roca, Belgrano Sur, Tren de la Costa and long distance lines – shut down from 4am to 9am this Friday morning as union members hold assemblies.

Literature

The laboratory of now: how literature deals with disaster

09-10-2019 15:00 Distinguished authors Jonathan Lethem and M. John Harrison discuss contemporary life and literature at FILBA literature festival, sparking debate over the creation of fiction among chaos.

by Sara Gierc