Argentina Material Conflict Share of News Events (GDELT, Weekly)

## What this measures

Of all the news events that GDELT located in Argentina in a week, the share that are material conflict: CAMEO QuadClass 4, which covers force, coercion, assaults, fighting, blockades, seizures and sanctions. Each event is weighted by the number of articles that reported it. Weeks run Monday to Sunday by the day GDELT ingested the events, and each value is dated to the Sunday.

## Why it matters

Argentina is a growing producer of lithium, copper and gold. The share picks up protests, strikes and their policing, and clashes linked to economic crises.

## How to read it

Higher means a larger part of the news coming out of Argentina is about conflict rather than talks, statements or cooperation. Argentina has 610 to 1,450 located events in most weeks. A single widely reported incident can move one week, so read a four-week average and compare with the country's own history.

## What it does not say

It is a share of news coverage, machine-coded, not a count of incidents or casualties. Events are placed by GDELT's geocoder, which can mislocate a story. It says nothing about who is involved or why. Weeks with fewer than 50 located events are left blank.

## Source

The GDELT Project, daily event export (data.gdeltproject.org/events), field ActionGeo_CountryCode = AR (FIPS 10-4). GDELT permits unrestricted commercial use and redistribution with citation: The GDELT Project, gdeltproject.org. Palanor sums the article weights of a Monday–Sunday week and computes the share; synced daily by /api/cron/gdelt-events-sync. Same definition as the world series gdelt_material_conflict_share, restricted to events located in the country.