Argentina’s ‘European’ self-image under renewed scrutiny after racist incidents in Brazil
Case involving seven-year-old boy is latest flashpoint in debate over race relations in Latin America ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing A woman celebrating her 32nd birthday on a train journey in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais was horrified when a fellow passenger alerted her that an unknown man had been secretly filming her seven-year-old son. When confronted, the man – an Argentinian tourist – initially refused to …
