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FILE - Japanese then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, right, with other delegates, celebrate after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, in Buenos Aires, Argentine on Sept. 7, 2013. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the country’s central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. Abe died after being shot while campaigning in western Japan on July 8, 2022.. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
Abe impersonated 'Super Mario' to promote Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade Jul. 09, 2022 01:07 AM EDT

Passengers sit on a flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
AP PHOTOS: A 35-hour Olympic journey from Argentina to Tokyo

Natacha Pisarenko Jul. 20, 2021 04:29 AM EDT

Tango dancer and musician Nicolas Ponce poses for a portrait as he plays the bandoneon inside a plant shop he started after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown closed dance venues in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 4, 2021. The essence of tango, he said, is what makes it so difficult to perform in the current health emergency. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In Argentina, pandemic exacts a heavy toll on tango culture

By Débora Rey Jun. 15, 2021 10:01 AM EDT

A man walks in front of Rome's Olympic stadium, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The Euro 2020 gets underway on Friday June 11 and is being played in 11 host cities across 11 countries. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope Francis blesses UEFA officials ahead of Euro 2020

Jun. 10, 2021 08:29 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2019 file photo, Carlos Tevez of Boca Juniors, waves prior to the Copa Libertadores semifinal second leg soccer match against River Plate, at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tevez in a press conference on Friday, June 4, 2021 announced his departure from the team. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
CA River Plate (Arg) vs Boca Juniors 10/22/2019

Jun. 04, 2021 07:58 PM EDT

Argentina's Lionel Messi wears a jersey with the number and image of late soccer star Diego Maradona prior to a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying soccer match against Chile in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (Juan Mabromata, Pool via AP)
Argentina draws after 7-month halt of World Cup qualifiers

Debora Rey Jun. 03, 2021 11:43 PM EDT

Adolfo Damian Berdun, of Argentina, a professional player and captain of the Argentine basketball Paralympic team, teaches children basketball at a primary school in Verano Brianza, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Four second-grade classes in the Milan suburb of Verano Brianza have been learning to play basketball this spring from a real pro. They also getting a lesson in diversity. Their basketball coach for the last month has been Adolfo Damian Berdun, an Argentinian-Italian wheelchair basketball champion. Berdun, 39, lost his left leg in a traffic accident at ag 13 in his native Buenos Aires, and he has visited many schools over the years to discuss how he has lived with his disability. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Para athlete teaches dribbling and diversity to Italian kids

By Colleen Barry And Luca Bruno May. 27, 2021 02:42 AM EDT

Sebastian Villa of Argentina's Boca Juniors, left, goes with the ball past Nixon Molina of Ecuador's Barcelona during a Copa Libertadores soccer match at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (Marcelo Endelli/Pool via AP)
Barcelona SC vs Boca Juniors 5/20/2021

May. 21, 2021 11:28 AM EDT

River Plate players walk off the field at the first half of a local league soccer match against Boca Juniors at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Jayo)
River Plate without goalkeepers for Copa Libertadores match

May. 18, 2021 07:35 PM EDT

River Plate players walk off the field at the first half of a local league soccer match against Boca Juniors at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Jayo)
CA River Plate (ARG) vs Boca Juniors 5/16/2021

May. 17, 2021 08:52 PM EDT

Dr. Veronica Verdino approaches the door to tell the son of a COVID-19 patient that his father died at Llavallol Dr. Norberto Raúl Piacentini Hospital in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, Saturday, May 8, 2021. General ward medics like Verdino have learned to master intubations, complex sedation drugs, electrocardiograms, CT scans and laryngoscopes as oxygen supplies become scarce. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In Argentina, doctors adapt as COVID-19 strains hospitals

By Almudena Calatrava May. 11, 2021 12:03 AM EDT

Chief of Surgical Services Alicia Rey shows medicine inside the ICU of the San Andres Clinic which has been occupied by its former workers since it closed at the start of the year following the death of the hospital's director and owner in Caseros, Argentina, Friday, April 30, 2021. While the pandemic has swelled the need for hospital beds, many private clinics say they're struggling to survive, citing the pandemic having pushed away many non-COVID patients and losing money on coronavirus sufferers because the government insurance program doesn't pay enough to meet costs. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentine clinics struggle despite COVID-19 crisis

By Débora Rey May. 07, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Carmela Corleto poses for a portrait at her home where she lives alone and waits her turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Burzaco, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Corleto, who said the first thing she wants to do after getting vaccinated is go to the bakery and supermarket to pick out her own food, got her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
AP Photos: Vaccines offer hope amid new wave in Argentina

By Natacha Pisarenko Apr. 24, 2021 10:19 AM EDT

People watch a movie at a cinema after almost a year of theaters being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Buenos Aires reopens as virus surge forces Sao Paulo to shut

By Mauricio Savarese And Debora Rey Mar. 04, 2021 12:04 AM EST

People watch a movie at a cinema after almost a year of theaters being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Virus surge forces Sao Paulo to shut as Buenos Aires reopens

By Mauricio Savarese And Debora Rey Mar. 03, 2021 07:21 PM EST

People have lunch at the Odaiba Marine Park where a statue of the Olympic rings is displayed in Tokyo on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Olympic boxing qualification events canceled, postponed

Feb. 16, 2021 05:40 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2020 file photo, a healthcare worker receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the N-1 military base in Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Mexico will start vaccinating teachers and other school personnel in Campeche, one of the country's 32 states this weekend with an eye toward resuming in-person classes there as early as late next month, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mexico looks to reopen schools in just one of its states

By Christopher Sherman Jan. 22, 2021 04:31 PM EST

A coffee sits on a table at Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Buenos Aires has long had a thriving cafe scene but they are struggling to survive what their owners say is the worst crisis in their history caused by the new coronavirus pandemic lockdown measures, on top of a deep, years-long recession. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Buenos Aires' cafe culture fighing to survive amid pandemic

By Almudena Calatrava Dec. 03, 2020 09:45 AM EST

Diego Maradona jersey is displayed on the stands ahead of the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and 1.FC Cologne in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)
Across globe, game-day tributes to Diego Maradona

By The Associated Press Nov. 28, 2020 01:45 PM EST

Soccer fans waiting to see Diego Maradona lying in state clash with police outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Argentine soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died Wednesday at the age of 60. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Argentines bid a raucous farewell to Maradona amid clashes

By Almudena Calatrava And Debora Rey Nov. 26, 2020 07:18 AM EST