Buenos Aires

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The Río de la Plata is known for being the birthplace of tango, which is considered an emblem of Buenos Aires. The city considers itself the Tango World Capital, and as such hosts many related events

Tango is a partner dance and social Latin dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. It was frequently practiced in the brothels and bars of ports, where business owners employed bands to entertain their patrons. It then spread to the rest of the world. A number of variations of this dance currently exist around the world.

Initially, it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants.

When the Tango began to spread internationally around 1900, cultural norms were generally conservative, and so tango dancing was widely regarded as extremely sexual and inappropriate for public display. This led to a phenomenon of culture shock. Additionally, the combination of African, Native American and European cultural influences in tango was new and unusual to most of the Western world.
On August 31, 2009, UNESCO approved a joint proposal by Argentina and Uruguay to include the Tango in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.

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Buenos Aires features the Rio de la Plata, the world's widest river.
The city lies in the pampa region, with the exception of some areas such as the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve, the Boca Juniors' "sports city", Jorge Newbery Airport, the Puerto Madero neighborhood and the main port itself; these were all built on reclaimed land along the coasts.

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Buenos Aires is declared the "World's Capital of Theater,” showing everything from

musicals to ballet, comedy to circuses, orchestral concerts and Tango events.

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Football (soccer) is the most popular spots pastime among the city's citizens, as Buenos Aires, featuring no fewer than 24 professional teams, has the highest concentration of teams of any city in the world, with many of its teams playing in the major league. The best-known rivalry is the one between Boca Juniors and River Plate, the match is better known as Superclásico. Watching a match between these two teams was deemed one of the "50 sporting things you must do before you die" by The Observer.
Diego Maradona (born October 30, 1960, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina-died November 25, 2020, Tigre, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine football (soccer) player who is generally regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the greatest of all time. Renowned for his ability to control the ball and create scoring opportunities for himself and others, he led club teams to championships in Argentina, Italy, and Spain, and he starred on the Argentine national team that won the 1986 World Cup.

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The Dirty War is the name used by Argentina's military junta or civic-military dictatorship. of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of state-sponsored violence from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and security forces and death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A) hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, communism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement.
It is estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally document; however, Argentine military intelligence at the time estimated that 22,000 people had been murdered or disappeared by 1978. The primary targets were communist guerrillas and sympathizers but also included students, militants, trade unionists, writers, journalists, artists and any citizens suspected of being left-wing activists who were thought to be a political or ideological threat to the junta. According to human rights organizations, the victims included 1,900 and 3,000 Jews, between 5-12% of those targeted despite Argentinian Jews comprising only 1% of the population. The killings were committed by the Junta in an attempt to fully silence social and political opposition.
Protests during Argentina's Dirty War were led by courageous human rights groups, most notably the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who defied the military junta by marching weekly in Buenos Aires to demand the whereabouts of their "disappeared" children, friends and loved ones. These, alongside other protests, challenged state terrorism, rape, torture, and widespread human rights violations, laying the groundwork for the eventual return to democracy.