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Lionel Messi to bid farewell to Argentina national team with a final match in Buenos Aires: ‘The last tango of the world’s best player’

A story that had it all, from painful defeats to everlasting victories, will come to an end. It will happen on October 6, when Lionel Messi plays his final match with the Argentina national team. That day the Albiceleste will face Benin in Buenos Aires in a friendly. “The last tango of the world’s best player,” said the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia.

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Lionel Messi celebrates Argentina's victory at the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
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The Terms and Conditions of a Place Where I’ll Belong

In this essay at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, writer and professor Samuel Autman reflects on tourism and privilege, especially in a time of xenophobia; traveling as a Black queer American; and the idea of not fully belonging wherever he goes. The sections in Autman’s piece are organized as terms and conditions in a legal agreement, reminding us that when we cross borders, we navigate different cultural and social scenarios, written and unwritten rules, and people who view us as foreign—no matter how at home we might feel.

I found myself asking harder questions about the young men around him, about the relationships, the patronage and the blurred line between generosity and dependency. Mark had paid for many of them to study law, medicine or business. He had even helped one man living in the United States without legal status by paying for him to attend a Spanish-language school.

None of it suggested scandal or anything obviously illegal. But parts of it no longer sat comfortably with me.

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The Giants of Patagonia

For centuries, travellers to the southern tip of South America returned with astonishing stories. They spoke of a land swept by fierce winds and endless plains, inhabited by people of extraordinary size. Some claimed these inhabitants were giants, towering far above ordinary men. Their tales captured the imagination of Europe and helped create one of the most enduring geographical myths in history: the Giants of Patagonia.


A sailor giving a Patagonian woman some biscuit for her baby. Credit: William C. Sturtevant


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La bandera que hizo visible el poder argentino – Por Marcelo Ramírez

Por Marcelo Ramírez La victoria sobre Inglaterra convirtió a la Selección en una fuerza de proyección internacional, instaló el nombre Malvinas en la conversación mundial y reveló una capacidad de…
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No es fútbol: la operación contra Messi y la Argentina es el manual de la guerra cognitiva – Por Mariano Gonzalez Lacroix

Por Mariano Gonzalez Lacroix / Zona-militar Hace unos años escribí, en un trabajo académico para la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, que la comunicación se había convertido en el campo…
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Malvinas: cuando el fútbol volvió a recordar que la soberanía no se negocia, ni se silencia – Por Alejandro Olmos Gaona

Por Alejandro Olmos Gaona Desde siempre las Islas Malvinas representaron mucho más que un territorio en disputa. Diría que para millones de argentinos constituyen una causa nacional, un símbolo de…
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El invierno demográfico: un desafío global que interpela a la Argentina – Por Ivone Alves García

Por Ivone Alves García La caída de la natalidad es uno de los fenómenos estructurales más complejos del siglo XXI, afectando de manera transversal a naciones con realidades políticas y…
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