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Buenos Aires

Photo focus: ‘Street Life’ in Buenos Aires

Tom Gilbert photography: Longboarders race down the serpentine Calle de la Republica Libano, a longboarding hotspot in the wealthy neighbourhood of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The rise of the ‘barras bravas’ in Argentinian football

Hew Fenshawe looks at the corruption and violence that now dominates Argentinian football, and discusses whether it can be eradicated. Amongst the monotony of poverty, crime and unemployment that surrounds the working-class areas of Buenos Aires, there’s only one escape—football. The passion for the sport within these marginalized communities, owing in part to inspirational figures such […]