Anuva Vinos founder Daniel Karlin speaks of his first Malbec as if it were a high school kiss. “I fell in love with Doña Paula, a 2004 Malbec. Wow, it completely blew me away.” That experience moved the Portland native to start his own distribution company, providing limited production wines to the US, Europe and locals for the last two years.

In a recent statement, the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) announced that skyrocketing food prices is putting unbearable pressure on the world’s poorest. With no respite to high prices in sight, the UN is cautioning that an additional 100m people are in danger of going hungry.

Jazz clubs, record labels, and underground jam sessions are cropping up all over Buenos Aires. In the hopes of giving a rounded impression of just what propels the jazz world here, The Argentimes looked at three very different places where the music is alive, growing, and taking risks.

The resignation of economy minister Martín Lousteau marks the first major departure of the Kirchner government and increases worries regarding the government’s ability to repair the country’s growing economic problems.

In 1965 Che Guevara travelled to Africa with the aim of triggering a revolution in the Republic of the Congo. What was the result of his trip? A resounding and embarrassing defeat for the Argentine icon.

In a groundbreaking case, a couple have been jailed for illegally adopting a girl born to parents disappeared by the military government in Argentina. Even more intriguing is that it was their adopted daughter who championed their imprisonment.

Alpargatas are as fundamentally Argentine as mate and dulce de leche. The traditional shoes are worn by Argentines of all shapes, sizes and classes; from the Patagonian cordillera to the porteño avenidas. They’ve even made the fashion culture leap to America, spurred on by the philanthropic mission behind TOMS.

Young Argentine musicians are trying to recapture the energy of turn of the century tango with a thoroughly modern take on the music. Performing weekly in the middle of downtown streets, one group has earned the adoration of neighbors and at times the ire of the Policia.

Maybe it’s the influence of the large agriculture industry, a legacy of ranch culture, or maybe they are just more creative than English speakers… But here in Argentina, they seem to have many more food/sex expressions than we do. Here’s your guide to talking dirty like an Argentine.

In recent years Buenos Aires, and indeed the rest of Argentina, has been experiencing a development boom. It has in fact been described by property developer John Boyle as the largest in the nation’s history.

But it is the regularity with which ambitious projects seem to be left unfinished that grabs the attention of so many. Dramatic empty buildings with no windows or doors and roads that stop in mid air… All can be seen in Argentina’s capital and all lead to one big question: How is this possible?