Rise and Fall of the House of Bitcoin
A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.
A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.
The role of money plays a two-sided role in Borges’ artistic life. On one side of the coin’s face, Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly 40 years. But on the coin’s reverse side, we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until after his family lost their money.
Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Longreads Jun 2016 Permalink
According to the movie version, they died side by side, guns blazing, in the crosshairs of half a Bolivian regiment. It’s a great Hollywood ending that happens to be true, mostly: they left America… then died in Bolivia. What Hollywood didn’t know is that Butch and Sundance escaped.
Patrick Symmes The Daily Beast Sep 2019 Permalink
Argentina’s grandmothers are still searching for the stolen babies born in the dictatorship’s secret prisons.
Bridget Huber California Sunday Apr 2017 25min Permalink
A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.
Evan Hughes GQ Jun 2016 30min Permalink
In the city of Rosario, some fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war.
Amos Barshad The Fader Jun 2016 25min Permalink
Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Jul 2015 40min Permalink
A nonconformist pastor sent a colony of Welsh people to Argentina to try to preserve the language in 1865. 150 years later, the traces are still there.
Jasper Rees More Intelligent Life Jun 2015 10min Permalink
The World Cup and Argentina’s “Dirty War.”
Wright Thompson ESPN the Magazine Jun 2014 10min Permalink
A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.
Maxine Swann New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 25min Permalink
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside Oct 2012 25min Permalink
Tracking the Nazi doctor’s bones through South America.
Eyal Weizman, Thomas Keenan Cabinet Sep 2011 20min Permalink
The man 27-year-old Victoria Donda believed to be her father shot himself after being revealed as a former member of an Argentinean death squad. Immediately after, a human rights group came to her with information on her birth parents: murdered political prisoners.
Mei-Ling Hopgood Marie Claire Jun 2011 Permalink
What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.
Max Chafkin Inc. May 2011 20min Permalink
Eichmann’s escape to Buenos Aires and his surprisingly visible life upon arrival:
"I was no ordinary recipient of orders. If I had been one, I would have been a fool. Instead, I was part of the thought process. I was an idealist."
Spiegel Staff Der Spiegel Apr 2011 35min Permalink