News of life

Rising poverty to impact life expectancy, child mortality rates

02-08-2024 17:23 With poverty and extreme poverty on the rise, specialists warn that worsening economic conditions and spending cuts could lead to an increase in child mortality rates and slump in life expectancy.

by Agustina Bordigoni

Court sentences Pachelo to life imprisonment for murder of murder of María Marta García Belsunce

27-03-2024 16:45 Ruling was delivered by the Buenos Aires Province Criminal Court of Appeals, more than 21 years after the murder of María Marta García Belsunce at a country club in northern Greater Buenos Aires.

At Argentina’s biggest gas field, residents lack heat and power

28-07-2023 13:59 A decade after production began at the vast reserves of Vaca Muerta, a town still waits on promises of a better future.

Around 4% of Argentina’s prison population serving life terms

23-02-2023 11:17 According to data from 2021, there were 55,933 convicts jailed nationwide, of whom 2,489 were sentenced to life imprisonment, according to national statistics. Of these, 726 are serving their sentences in Buenos Aires provincial penitentiaries, where the eight individuals recently sentenced for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa are now being detained.

by Nadia Galán