Argentina

Argentina beat Panama 2-0 in a friendly on Thursday with goals from Thiago Almada and Lionel Messi amid a festive atmosphere in their first game in front of ...

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Flight logs revealed how 12 people were thrown out to their deaths into the Atlantic during the years of dictatorship.

“But I still think it has to be on display at the [death camp] museum because it is part of history now.” One entry stood out: a three-hour flight in December 1977, from the Buenos Aires city airport back to the Buenos Aires city airport, with no stop in between. “Then the plane was found in Florida, with the original flight logs intact. This was the aircraft which Ceraudo and Lewin eventually tracked down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where it was owned by a company that flies courier packages to the Bahamas. I could have died on that plane myself and many people I knew died on it. The third pilot named in the flight log, Enrique José de Saint Georges, died of natural causes awaiting trial. They included three members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, including Villaflor, three other relatives of missing people, two French nuns and four young activists who helped the relatives in their search for their loved ones. After we published their stories, the activists tried to persuade me to join their group, and the Mothers sometimes returned if only to hold my hand in silence for 15 minutes. Two were taken from the Comet bar near the Herald offices where we had been scheduled to meet on 8 December. The FAA-registered plane is now in the hands of another US company, Win Aviation, whose owner, Andri Wiese, said he was working to finalise the logistics to return the aircraft. Then they pushed their victims out, to fall thousands of feet into the South Atlantic. On the night of 14 December 1977, the three pilots flew their turboprop aeroplane for more than an hour out over the Atlantic Ocean.

Every week, victims were selected and “transferred” away from the Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA), one of most active clandestine centers of detention, torture ...

“I couldn’t stop thinking about the bodies of the people I cared about inside that thing. The building later became the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, which is currently nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Skyvan will fly to Argentina in its current state — it has been modified from its original version with updated electronic instruments, new engines, a weather radar, and a new automated system to open the formerly-manual cargo door. On board the plane will be original parts including a sign that used to be next to the door lever, indicating it should never be opened without authorization from the flight’s commander. It is expected to land in an Argentine airport in April, at which point the Argentine state will officially take possession of the aircraft. The airplane has been bought by the Economy Ministry, led by Sergio Massa, and will be flown from the US.

Buenos Aires – Lionel Messi capped a night of unbridled joy with the 800th goal of his career as world champions Argentina celebrated their homecoming with ...

Lionel Messi scored his 800th career goal for club and country in Argentina's friendly against Panama in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.

Brazilian great Pele claims to have scored more than 1,000 goals during his career. The win over Panama came in Argentina's first match since beating France in Qatar last December. "We said that we were going to give it all for this trophy." [Argentina](/football/team?id=202) to the 2022 [World Cup](/football/league/_/name/FIFA.WORLD) title in Qatar. [Messi milestone tracker: All his records for club and country](/football/blog-the-toe-poke/story/4874225/lionel-messi-milestone-tracker-psg-barcelona-argentina) [Lionel Messi](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/45843/Lionel-Messi) scored his 800th career goal for club and country in Argentina's [2-0 friendly win](/football/report?gameId=666850) over Panama in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.

In their first international match since becoming a World Cup winner, Enzo Fernandez and his Argentina team-mates continued their successful run, ...

He netted with a free-kick, his 800th career goal, and an earlier free-kick had come back off the post before Almada found the net. Manager Lionel Scaloni picked the same starting line-up as for the World Cup final and the players raised individual replicas of the famous golden trophy. Enzo played the first hour of the match before being replaced by Leandro Paredes.

In practice, the event served as an opportunity to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin—and, perhaps, to pressure the Argentine government ahead of the ...

And on the left, there seems to be this nostalgia for an anti-colonialism that assumes the United States is automatically in the wrong and that its adversaries are inherently virtuous.” [limited oversight](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-argentina-china-insight-idUSKCN1PP0I2) from the Argentine government. [suggesting](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/brazil-lula-zelenskiy-blame-war) last May that Putin and Zelensky bore equal responsibility for the war. [traveled to Moscow](https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/argentinas-fernandez-set-china-russia-tour-after-imf-accord-2022-02-01/) in the hopes of expanding ties with Russia. “They are distrustful of the intentions of the U.S. [voted](https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/with-argentinas-backing-united-nations-votes-to-suspend-russia-from-human-rights-council.phtml) to suspend Russia from the U.N. “They’re aligned with the United States and the social democratic governments of Western Europe but not overly so.” Casullo added that this position of relative neutrality “comes very naturally to this government. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that Brazil was one of [seven countries](https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/07/the-23-countries-that-supported-putin-in-the-un-vote-that-suspended-russia-from-the-human-rights-council/) in Latin America and the Caribbean to abstain from the April 2022 [U.N. Recently, on the war’s one-year anniversary, the Argentine government issued a [statement](https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/actualidad/noticias/un-ano-del-inicio-de-la-guerra-en-ucrania-argentina-reitera-su-condena-la) condemning Russia’s aggression and calling dialogue “the only path.” The Argentine president later [affirmed](https://www.ft.com/content/fc8d51c8-5202-4862-a653-87d1603deded) that his country would not be sending arms to Ukraine during a separate meeting with Scholz in January this year. [topping 100 percent](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/14/intl_business/argentina-inflation-tops-100-percent-intl-latam/index.html) and a [social crisis](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/21/argentina-cristina-fernandez-kirchner-corruption-trial-assassination-attempt/) unseen since the economic crash of 2001 appear remote. (In Latin America, only Chilean President Gabriel Boric has condemned Putin’s invasion [from the start](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/14/latin-america-s-ukraine-war-stance-is-trapped-in-the-past/7da2ab8a-c257-11ed-82a7-6a87555c1878_story.html).)