. >> the president of china, xi jinping was in argentina last summer the president cristina kirchner returned the favor this year. >> you can see an interest in local people learning chinese. >> this is where two distant and very different economies meet. it is not an obvious or often easy match but many here are trying hard to make it work. with china investing heavily in argentine infrastructure, they come to encourage more general understanding. >> the differences in our customs are minor difficulty. the biggest difference is language. everything is different. if we don't know the language we can't communicate fluently. language is the bridge for so many things. >> reporter: mandarin is now offered in knowledge buenos airesmany buenos airesschools. >> to say hole there is no kiss being or handshake. just a bow. we have gotten used to saying hello in buenoses buenos aires with kisses. >> daniel schwindler, al jazeera, buenos aires. >> things are better now but many are struggling to break into the workforce. kimberly halkett reports from washington d.c. >> reporter: scott bake are

president cristina kirchner returned the visit this year. >> with the visits of the president and heasing interest in local people learning chinese. >> this is where two distant and very different cultures meet in the small and compact chinatown in buenos aires. it is not an easy match but they're trying hard to make it work. they're keen to encourage more general understanding. >> the interest differences in culture and cuss customs are minor. but it's language that is the bridge for so many things. >> nowmandarin is taught in many schools. >> to say hello in chinese there is no handshake or kissing. just gesture. >> china is investing in latin america. in argentina no one wants to get left behind in a relationship developing both economically and culturally. al jazeera buenos aires. >> a company in new zealand is using unmanned drones to find lost people in the country. >> using cameras on so called unmanned drones is nothing new but honing them specifically for search and rescue is, and in christ church a two-man company is leading the way. >> the whole mandate is basically being

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. >>> this week argentina's president cristina kirchner inaugurated a museum of memory in buenos aires's hoursed housed in a center of notorious detention and torture. this woman was a survivor. she should al jazeera and told us her story. >> my >> they took me in front of my house. i was with my three-year-old daughter. my situation was very difficult with an arrest warrant out for me. i was a militant. this is where they torture us. when you pass there was a place that was lined with boxes so you couldn't hear the screams from those who were receiving electro shock, torture and being beaten. >> it was sinister and pathological. officers would sleep here with their kids and families in the middle of a place where thousands were being tortured and killed. i swore that i would never again enter this place. there was a feeling that something would be done about it after so many years of fighting. for us this is closure. this place being turned into a memory site to me seems really meaningful. this museum and it's trials are a reparation, it's a social reparation. but to me reparation has

president cristina kirchner returned to china this year. >> with the visits of the presidents and increasing interchange between the two countries, you can really notice increaseing interest. >> this is where two very different cultures meet in chinatown in buenos aires. it is not an obvious or easy match but every year they try hard to make it work. with china investigating heavily in argentine infrastructure, it will encourage more understanding. >> the turns in our customs are minor difficulty. the biggest difference is language. everything is different. if we don't know the language we can't communicate fluidly. language is the bridge for so many things. >> mandarin is now offered in many buenos aires schools. there are still differences and misunderstandings that will come. >> to say hello in chinese. there is no handshake or kissing kissing, just a gesture. just a bough. >> china is investing in latin america. in argentina no one wants to get left behind economically and culturally. >> an opposition leading in venezuela has started a hunger strike in jail. lopez is call forgive anti-go