President Kirchner put aside the domestic troubles to step up her country’s claims to the Falkland Islands on the 26th anniversary of the war with Britain.
She’s called Argentina’s rights to the islands "inalienable".
Teresa Bo has more on why Argentines think Las Malvinas, as they’re known in Spanish, are rightly theirs.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports on Guatemala, a country in Latin America most affected by rising food prices and inflation.
A large number of Guatemalans live at or below the poverty line. Officials there worry that people who barely managed to afford food before are now going hungry.
Argentina is marking the 32nd anniversary of a military coup that ushered in one of Latin America’s most brutal regimes.
Among the protestors marking the anniversary were a group of women who call themselves the Grandmothers of Plaza de Maya.
They’re fighting to find the babies of political prisoners who were taken away by members of the military during Argentina’s dirty war. Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports.
For the first time since they arrived in Bolivia as slaves 182 years ago, attitudes towards African Bolivians are changing. That’s partly because of the government of Evo Morales, which recently approved its first “multi-ethnic, multicultural” constitution.But for many, it’s recognition of Julio Pinedo, an African Bolivian, who is now an official authority and king of the African-Bolivian community. Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports.
In Colombia, female fighters make up some 20 per cent of the FARC rebels. They fight alongside the men and are constantly on the move.
But if they fall pregnant, they’re left with some difficult choices to make.
Teresa Bo explains.