AP Photos: Argentines have balcony parties amid quarantine
(WorldNews Argentina)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A few days of the silence and solitude of quarantine was all that Marcela Álvarez could stand. She went to the balcony of her house in Buenos Aires’ Villa Devoto neighborhood, wired up Christmas lights, set up a speaker and began playing music. She feared that the neighbors would complain. Instead, they began doing the same, and “the festival of the balconies” was born — an Argentine variant of the occasional street serenades that have popped up in countries around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of separation, the quarantine measures imposed in...