Melchor Villanueva and Susana “Chana” Flores are co-workers at DAD – a sports-based youth development program in a slum called La Cava on the Buenos Aires periphery. Just five years ago, neither had imagined themselves working there. And given their remarkably disparate backgrounds, it would...

In many ways, Club Social y Deportivo Villa del Parque is indistinguishable from any other recreational club in any other neighborhood in Argentina: It’s a place to meet with friends and family, get a bite to eat and, of course, play soccer.

The club’s white façade at Marcos Sastre 3260 faces...

If nature had kept its secret, the city of Mendoza and the surrounding wine country wouldn’t exist. The province of Mendoza, along with parts of San Juan, Entre Rios and San Luis, make up Argentina’s Cuyo region –from the indigenous Huarpe word ‘cuyum’ for ‘the country of deserts’ or...