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Chile voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to scrap its Pinochet-era constitution and draft a new one. With 36% of votes counted, 77.7% backed a fresh charter, a key demand by protesters that took to the streets last year in huge numbers.
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- #Argentina #Maradona #Diego #GraciasDiego #Football #BuenosAires Officials make preparations for Maradona's wake at Casa Rosada. Government estimates as many as one million people will want to pay their respects to legendary late footballer.
- #Argentina #BTS #ArJINtina BTS singer and international heart-throb Jin draws out thousands of Argentine fans in advance of live Coldplay collab.
- #Interview #Argentina #UK British Ambassador Mark Kent will bid farewell to Argentina next week after a five-year stint in Buenos Aires. Prior to his departure, @KentArgentina sat down with @JamesGrainger0 to answer some serious (and silly) questions.
- #Argentina #GenderViolence #Femicide #Coronavirus From March 20 to June 25, 75 women were murdered as a result of gender violence, according to the latest report from La Casa del Encuentro, a campaigning gender violence observatory. By @Nadiagalan
- #Culture #Music #LatinAmeirca Brazilian pop star Anitta, whose booty-grinding reggaeton hit "Envolver" claimed the top spot on Spotify last week and has become a viral dance phenomenon, says her international success shows "Latinas are reaching the top."
- We are greatly saddened by the news that famed writer and journalist Andrew Graham-Yooll passed away in London yesterday. Andrew, a former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald and a weekly columnist for us at @theBAtimes, was a giant of the English-speaking community in Argentina.
- In defence of #Friends: why millennial anger at the legendary 1990s TV sitcom is just plain wrong. @NicolasLucca on why Friends is anything but sexist, homophobic and racist. @DavidCrame @MatthewPerry @DavidSchwimmer @CourtneyCox @Matt_LeBlanc @LisaKudrow
- #Breaking #Sports Sources tell @theBAtimes Marcelo #Bielsa has finalised his deal to become head coach of #LeedsUnited (@LUFC). The Argentine coach has signed his contract, worth around €4 million year, and the paperwork is now with the English club. Update to follow.
- #BREAKING #Argentina #Abortion #AbortoLegal2020 Argentina's Senate has voted in favour of an historic bill to legalise abortion, with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and 1 abstention. #ABORTOLEGAL
- #Argentina #Covid19 #Coronavirus President Fernández announces kindergarten, primary and secondary schools to be suspended until March 31; Argentina's borders to be closed to all non-residents effective immediately; Number of confirmed cases rises to 56




