The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has prohibited, by decree, the entry of foreigners into the country who have offended Argentinians, as well as the expulsion of those already living in the country. This decision comes amid accusations from the Argentine government itself about an alleged "anti-Argentina" campaign following criticism disseminated on social media after the World Cup final, in which Argentina lost to Spain.

Anything a celebrity shares on their social media can be susceptible to generating controversy. Rosalía has experienced this firsthand this week, when Argentine fans have revolted against her after she re-shared a video by actress Mia Khalifa that some interpreted as a mockery of the Argentine national team, which last Sunday was defeated by Spain in the World Cup final. This Wednesday, the singer used Instagram to apologize to the Argentine followers who felt offended. "I shared it because "La perla" was playing and I didn't even read what it said. Sorry", she says in a first Instagram story. Immediately after, she shared another one in which she emphasizes: "I only have love for Argentina".

FIFA will open an investigation against Argentina for the incidents that occurred after the final whistle, as reported by Sky Sports. The highest football body will investigate the violent conduct of several Argentine players – and some members of Lionel Scaloni's coaching staff.

With Light Rain Will Come, the Argentine filmmaker Iván Fund cultivated a fairly characteristic, calm, and contained independent cinema, which used striking premises without taking the sensationalist paths of genre films. The fantastic coverage of that film gave appeal to a certain portrait and commentary on slightly strange everyday lives. The Message, winner of the jury prize at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, is somewhat of a slightly radicalized extension of that proposal. It is about a girl who supposedly communicates with animals and who, accompanied by relatives who monetize this ability, travels by van through rural Argentina, on secondary roads, gas stations, and superstitions. Some sequences depart punctually from the narrative function and give off a certain documentary air.The black and white photography of Fund and company recalls the picaresque adventures of another road movie: Peter Bogdanovich's New Hollywood classic Paper Moon, by Peter Bogdanovich. Fund's work, however, does not stage the usual transformation or evolution of the travelers. In reality, there is not much evolution in any area, nor many adventures. The result ends up seeming like a slender and aesthetically accurate film of atmospheres, sensations, and observations in which part of a minimal story unfolds. This can cause some frustration for those who want clearer answers and more obviously climatic moments.

Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador. A blue tide has changed the political map of Latin America since 2023. What seemed like a new pink tide a few years ago – the way the wave of left-wing governments on the continent was called in the early 2000s – has only lasted one term. Now, the ideological shift is even more abrupt. If 15 years ago South Americans turned to the right, now, following the global trend, they are turning to the far-right, paving the way for the United States' plans to re-establish the region as Washington's backyard.blue tide has changed the political map of Latin America since 2023. What seemed like a new What seemed like a new pink tide – the way the wave of left-wing governments on the continent was called in the early 2000s – has only lasted one term. Now, the ideological shift is even more abrupt. If 15 years ago South Americans turned to the right, now, following the global trend, they are turning to the far-right, paving the way for the United States' plans to re-establish the region as Washington's backyard.

27,000 people, according to police sources, gathered on the marine platform of Barcelona's Fòrum to experience the World Cup final together. The majority were fans of the Spanish national team, but there was also a large representation of Argentinians. Like Mariella and Laura, two Argentinians who have been living in Catalonia for a long time. "The sea inspires us. We've come here with a couple of guts. Until the end with the national team," they confided.

Sixteen years later, Spain has once again been proclaimed world champion. A goal from Ferran Torres in the second half of extra time was enough for the Spanish team to defeat Leo Messi's Argentina, who were left with one less player after Enzo Fernández's expulsion. The match was highly anticipated: Messi versus Lamine Yamal, and two teams with completely opposite styles. The political aspect of the confrontation is also significant. The final was played in the United States of America, and Donald Trump was present at the MetLife Stadium. Spain and the United States currently have a tense relationship, while Javier Milei's Argentina is much closer to the American magnate.

When this Sunday the ball starts rolling in the World Cup final at the MetLife stadium on the outskirts of New York, the city that never sleeps, all eyes will be on two players trained in Barcelona, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal. The leaders of Argentina and Spain, the two finalist teams. It will be special for a group of people who, searching through old photos on their mobile phones, find some that show these two players when they were much younger: the coaches from La Masia who, in some way, helped them on both their paths to MetLife stadium.

The British government has asked FIFA to investigate the Argentine team after several players displayed a banner with the message "Las Malvinas son argentinas" at the end of the World Cup semi-final against England. The tournament regulations prohibit political demonstrations on the pitch. The banner appeared during the celebration of the Argentine victory 2-1 against England. Several players from the combined team sky blue they held it over the grass of the Atlanta stadium. Argentina continues to claim the archipelago, under British sovereignty, and which the English call the Falkland Islands.

Argentinians cry. They cry a lot, when they talk and play football. It's part of their identity. They love this sport and this national team so much that they cry a lot. And it's beautiful that it happens. Giuliano Simeone, Cholo's son, also cried. He did so talking about Messi. "He's 39 years old. And you see how he plays, how he fights... If he has already won everything. And he keeps fighting," said the excited Atlético de Madrid footballer, who will play a World Cup final, a feat his father did not achieve. "When you see Leo fighting for every ball like that, we have to give our all to help him," added Leandro Paredes. "He suffered a lot with the national team and has given us a lot of glory. We will do it for him," defended Cuti Romero. Lionel Messi plays surrounded by a group of footballers who seem like the praetorian guard of an emperor, ready for anything to defend their leader. But if you ask Messi, he says they are nothing more than "a group of friends", who bond by making barbecues.

From Barcelona to Buenos Aires there are 10,500 kilometers. About thirteen hours by plane that last night disappeared. For a few hours, the l'Hyatt Regency – a hotel located in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat – transformed into a small Buenos Aires. Thousands of people gathered to experience a historic match: England-Argentina.

Hours before England and Norway played on Saturday in Miami in the World Cup quarterfinals, and that Argentina and Switzerland faced each other in Kansas a little later, the Foreign Minister of Javier Milei's government, Pablo Quirno, published a long article in the newspaper La Nación titled "Malvinas: the strength of a just cause". The memory of the 1982 war in which Margaret Thatcher's United Kingdom defeated the Argentine military junta, which wanted to regain sovereignty of the archipelago, remains alive in the imagination of the South American country.

Spain-Argentina in the World Cup final. The world will stop this Sunday with a historic match between Lamine Yamal and Leo Messi, two football stars forged at La Masia who are 20 years apart. There is no better spectacle to stage a generational handover. The albiceleste achieved another feat in a semifinal resolved agonizingly against England, who saw themselves overturned in just six minutes, a victim of the inexhaustible talent of Rosario's number 10, author of two key passes amidst another ode to epic (1-2). The British, despite their goalkeeper's good performance, managed the lead disastrously in a very exciting second half and were eliminated against the team with the most mystique on the planet.

On June 13, 1982, the Argentine national team debuted in the Spanish World Cup. The opening match was played at Camp Nou in Barcelona and the opponent was Belgium. "We had arrived a few days earlier. At that time, we were at war with the United Kingdom, the Falklands War. When we left Buenos Aires, the press said we were winning the war. When we arrived in Spain, the press said we were losing it," recalls Jorge Valdano, an Argentine player. Argentina would lose the match 0-1 and just one day later, on June 14, the Argentine army surrendered: it had lost the war. Two defeats in 24 hours.

The World Cup had its semifinals defined with the four best teams according to the world rankings qualified. Four top-level teams and two with great rivalry. On one hand, France and Spain. On the other hand, England and Argentina, teams that every time they face each other, it seems they play in such a way that the winner can keep the Falkland Islands. Or the Malvinas, as the British call them. But the draw was set and a good part of the debates were not about football. Both Argentinians and English were accused of having qualified thanks to refereeing assistance. In England's case, the debate was surreal: had the ball touched a cable from the camera hanging from the ceiling? Journalists, fans, and curious onlookers debated the ball's trajectory, physics and astrophysics.

Argentina will play the World Cup semi-finals thanks to Julián Álvarez. He hadn't scored in the entire tournament and was dealing with some murmurs about his rather mediocre performance, but he showed up at the best moment to save his team in another match decided by delirium (3-1). Sought after by big European clubs like Barça, the Atlético de Madrid forward invented a championship goal to unbalance a match that was heading for penalties. A rocket into the top corner from a brave Swiss team to meet England's Kane and Bellingham in the semis this Wednesday.

Argentina had to bring out their champion character to avoid one of the biggest upsets of this World Cup. Lionel Scaloni's team came back from 0-2 down against Egypt in the final minutes (3-2) and qualified for the quarter-finals after a match in which they lived on the edge. The Egyptian team narrowly missed out on a historic feat thanks to a colossal performance from goalkeeper Shobeir and a tactical approach that nullified the Argentinians for a large part of the game. When all seemed lost, Leo Messi, who ended the match in tears, reappeared to lead an express comeback that was finally completed by Enzo Fernández in added time. Their next opponent will be Switzerland, a team that defeated Colombia on penalties after a goalless duel.

The match between Argentina and Cape Verde will be remembered as the years go by. If the World Cups are exciting, it's because of matches like these, when logic breaks down, when anything can happen. On a humid and sticky night in Miami, modest Cape Verde came within a whisker of eliminating Argentina in a tie decided in overtime where anything and everything happened. Goals, tackles, and a player climbing into the stands. In the end, the reigning champions managed to survive after a very demanding duel against a Cape Verde team that heads home with their heads held high, having become one of the most beautiful stories of the tournament (3-2). Nobody knew them, and now everyone admires them.

"In this solitary environment, in this infinite desert today populated by men of all the world's lineages, we Catalans also arrive, in the thousands (...) We leave Barcelona without being aware of what we are leaving or what we will find upon arrival... and the arrival at the great city of La Plata is sad... for the emigrant." These words summarize the deep longing felt, for years, by Enric Martí i Muntaner (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1889-Buenos Aires, 1954): although he left for Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of making his fortune, he only managed to survive in the middle of the Pampa for almost three decades, and guided by love for his country – and, above all, for his language – he undertook the verse translation of an emblematic poem by José Hernández, Martín Fierro (1872), which he managed to publish in 1936, after several vicissitudes.

Leo Messi's family confirmed this Thursday that Jorge Messi, the Argentine footballer's father, has been admitted to the hospital for a health problem about which no details have been disclosed. In a statement, the family environment indicated that he is "under medical supervision, recovering and evolving favorably within the framework he presents," the family said.