Letter from Buenos Aires: Soccer fan violence leaves G20 host with jitters

Under normal circumstances, the hooligan street violence that forced the postponement Saturday of what had been billed as the South American soccer “Final for all Time” between Buenos Aires arch rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate would have remained a sordid affair among Argentines.

But this is no normal week in Buenos Aires. Beginning Friday, the Argentine capital will host more than three dozen world leaders – including Presidents Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin – at the G20 summit of large and emerging economies.

And so what normally would have been limited to a national scandal has taken on international importance,