Tag Archives : Argentina

An Argentine student of 23 years, who had been abandoned at a hospital when he was seven days, he found his biological mother through the networking site Facebook. Mauricio Barrios, who lives in the province of Cordoba with the family that adopted him, in March launched a Facebook page called “Busco a mi mamá” (“Looking for my mother”), [...]

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as an intermediary and thus completes [...]

If you’re in the most far-flung among the 70 hospitals in Argentina, you probably have no choice but trust long-distance doctor’s diagnosis. Remote healthcare support and services are now being offered to patients in the different provinces of Argentina via the Telemedicine pilot project, led by the Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan, in cooperation with [...]

The return home was not like Pablo Eche had dreamed. After 15 months in a recovery clinic, struggling against his addiction in “paco”, a highly addictive drug that put an end to thousands of lives in Argentina, Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta. His relatives, including his mother, Bilma Acuna, anti-paco activist of the community, gave him the good [...]

The Argentine government declared this Friday a holiday for health national administration, which partly affects the private sector in an attempt to halt the advance of swine flu. According to the latest assessment of the WHO (World Health Organization), the disease affected 2,485 people in the country, and causing 60 deaths. The opponents of this [...]

The mayor of Buenos Aires, declared state of emergency health in this Tuesday to help control the spread of swine flu, which caused at least two deaths in the country. He asked that residents stay at home as much as possible until the next Friday, so that the health authorities coordinate efforts to combat the disease. With the new cases, the number [...]

Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa criticized the unfounded discrimination experienced by some Mexican citizens in other countries due to the fear of infection from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu. At a press conference, the secretary said that she was surprised with the decision of ‘brother’ countries such as [...]

The Argentine government has issued its latest confirmation on the number of dengue victims in the country: 10,594 cases. NGOs claim, however, that the number of people affected by the disease is much higher than what the government has disclosed as the disease has spread to urban centers such as Buenos Aires. The Health Ministry in Buenos Aires reported [...]

Richard Williamson, a Roman Catholic bishop who questioned the truth about the controversial Holocaust. The British born bishop caused outrage among the public in Argentina. Williamson who was living in Buenos Aires for five years now at St Pius X seminary was asked to leave the country within ten days. The bishop arrived at Heathrow airport and [...]

The Brazilian government has made official the suspension of a controversial barrier to imports that directly affected the sales of Argentine products. The move to suspend the barrier, however, was largely due to the strong complaints lodged by the member countries of Mercosur. The barrier seemed simple but powerful, as well as discordant to what Mercosur [...]