Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.

The market, which traditionally relies on American dollars, is stagnant, in part because the government recently restricted real estate transactions in foreign currencies.

Argentine officials are fudging economic facts again. To keep a false narrative straight, they seem to be suggesting, one must go back to the original lie.

A remote training center, where soldiers from around the world swim in piranha-infested waters and endure jungle hikes without rations, is helping Brazil raise its profile.

Sub, an Argentine photo collective, shares everything, especially an activist political outlook. A recent project looks at the lives of the country’s wealthiest, who live in luxurious, gated communities.

Metropolitan Diary: A postal clerk assures a woman that, with the pope’s help, her friend in Argentina will get her birthday card on time.

The Iguazú Falls are stunning from most angles. But getting to them through Paraguay has its advantages.

The clothing retailer Ralph Lauren faced criminal and civil charges of violating a federal law against making illegal payments to foreign officials, the latest case highlighting a crackdown on overseas bribery by American companies.

BUENOS AIRES — As Concepción Martínez, her husband and two daughters pulled into the last subway station here, cheers and clapping erupted from the throngs of people, some wearing turn-of-the-20th-century dress, waiting on the platform.
 
Camera flashes lighted the tunnels as passengers took their final rides in the saloonlike wagons — with their wooden benches, frosted glass lamps and manually operated brass doors — of South America’s first subwa...

Preservationists say illegal demolitions, chronic underinvestment and unimaginative architecture threaten to erase the city’s history.

After the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, did not receive an invitation to the ceremonial funeral for Margaret Thatcher in London next week, Argentina called it “yet another provocation.”

Novak Djokovic twisted his ankle as he helped Serbia beat the United States in the Davis Cup, and his status for the upcoming clay season is uncertain.

The deluge left thousands homeless and renewed tensions as politicians blamed one another for the high death toll.

American TV has a long tradition of imitating foreign shows, and the fall season may include several new forms of flattery, with “Friends and Family,” “Pulling,” “Rake,” “Second Sight” and “Spy.”

“Seriously, it’s Jorge Bergoglio, I’m calling you from Rome,” the new pope insisted in a call to Buenos Aires.

A priest captured by the Argentine junta in the 1970s disputes accusations made by a fellow victim that the new pope played a role in his detention.

During Argentina’s “Dirty War,” people thought to be enemies of the state were bundled into Ford Falcons without license plates and disappeared. Would the “war” have been less dirty if the Roman Catholic church had stood up to its perpetrators?

By suggesting in 2010 that the church in Argentina support civil unions for gay couples, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio revealed himself to be a deal maker willing to compromise.

Pope Francis is a well-established fan of soccer, a sport that has a long history with religious institutions.

Photos from the Vatican, Argentina, Afghanistan and Iraq.