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A Severed Pig's Head, a Friend's Dead Body and Other Things Not to Bring to a Soccer Game

You can add the dead guy at a pro game in Colombia last weekend to a list of crazy behavior by soccer fans at games. In the now infamous story, fans in Colombia stole the body of a murdered friend from a funeral home and took his corpse to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team -- a whole new twist on Pro Zombie...

Ex-SC Gov. Mark Sanford, Argentine Lover Hit Uruguay Resort

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras," or Faces, published an eight-page spread on...

Argentine Woman Survives Fall From Hotel's 23rd Floor

Talk about finding a taxi at the exact moment you need one most. An Argentine woman has reportedly survived a fall from the 23rd story of a hotel in Buenos Aires by landing atop a taxicab. The woman plummeted an estimated 330 feet after hurling herself from the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano before she struck a cab on...

Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before Capture

After 15 years on the run, justice finally caught up with Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960. The Nazi war criminal -- who organized the deportation of millions of Jews to death camps in German-occupied Poland -- was kidnapped outside his Buenos Aires home by Mossad agents and brought to trial in Israel. He was found guilty of...

Thieves Tunnel Into Argentina Bank Vault, Grab Deposit Boxes

Thieves in Argentina have made off with more than 130 safety deposit boxes from a bank vault after spending months digging a 100-foot tunnel from an adjacent building. The heist is believed to have taken place on New Year's Eve while the bank was closed, but it was discovered only when employees returned to work after the...

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06/02/12 Argentina: The Return of âCacerolazos', Pot-banging... Source: Global Voices Online On May 31 the cacerolazo âa protest where people bang pots and pansâ returned to Argentina as a measure of social protest, the same happened in 2001 [es] when citizens got President Fernando De La RÃºa to resign from his position.
06/02/12 Argentina's vice president tarnished amid alleged... Source: FOX News Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's second-in-command is known as a fun-loving, guitar-playing renegade who wore a leather jacket to their Election Day victory bash.
06/02/12 Bishop's book lifts lid on life in Argentina -... Source: BBC Norfolk The Falklands War polarises opinion - even 30 years after it ended.
06/02/12 Falklands' new generation will attend the C24 meeting... Source: MercoPress The Falklands is to have a special full day session before the Committee in New York on June 14 and MLA Mike Summers and MLA Roger Edwards will form the Falkland Islands delegation accompanied by Andrew Pollard and Krysteen Ormond.
06/02/12 âWe need political will on both sidesâ to reach... Source: MercoPress Ambassador ArgÃ¼ello, along with Argentine consul and deputy consul in Los Angeles, Jorge Lapsenson and Cristina Vallina, visited this week the University of California Los Angeles, as guests of UCLA International Institute, the UCLA Latin American Institute and its Centre for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone.