Rosario, Argentina is the hometown of Argentinian World Cup winners Lionel Messi and Angel DiMaria. However, over recent weeks, the city seems to be experiencing a wave of drug-related violence, including the shooting of an 11-year-old boy and an attack on a store owned by Lionel Messi's in-laws.
Lionel Messi is not just an icon in his soccer-crazy home country of Argentina, but a hero. However, that did not stop gunmen from attacking the grocery store owned by his wife's family and leaving him with a threatening message.
Argentina is suffering a massive heatwave and drought, and this has caused a few fires throughout the country. Now, one of those fires has affected the Argentinian National Power Grid, causing blackouts throughout most of the country.
Lionel Messi has not only just won a World Cup, he now has seven FIFA Player of the Year awards, the most for any person of all time, man or woman. ESPN revealed that he broke the tie for the record with female Brazilian legend, Marta.
The region of Latin America has seen the rise of several dictators, and one of them was Argentina's General Jorge Rafael Videla, known for his ruthless campaign of political killings and forced disappearances.
Chile and Argentina are offering Nicaraguan exiles citizenship in their countries after Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega recently stripped his critics and opposition figures of their citizenship.
Pregnant Russian women are flocking to Argentina in an effort to obtain Argentinian citizenship for their children. However, Argentina seems to have caught on to this practice and has now started cracking down on these would-be Russian tourists.
Argentina has raised worries after it found out that more pregnant Russian women are traveling to the Latin American country to give birth to their children to attain Argentinian citizenship.
Five out of eight amateur Argentina rugby players involved in a 2020 murder case were sentenced to life in prison. The 18-year-old victim was beaten to death in what critics described as a racist and classist attack.
During the World Cup in Qatar, the usually calm and collected Lionel Messi became very angry at his Dutch opponents, even going so far as calling Manchester United striker Wout Weghorst a "fool" during an interview. Now, the Argentina star speaks out about the now-infamous clash.