Opinion

Maradona: a metaphor for the paradoxes of Argentina

29 November 2020 - 00:00 By tony leon

In a now vanished age, May 2010, I went to the movies on a Saturday evening in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. The upmarket Cine Village multiplex attracted an audience of well-heeled Portenos (locals of the city) and resident diplomats such as me...

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