Provides the latest RSS feeds for Argentina News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Argentina Star.com http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/cat/d9ed072d737073b4/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:24 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:24 -0400 30 The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina. The donation was formalized at a ceremony presided over by Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer, who described the CLT's action as "moving". Nine years ago, the CLT provided 60,000 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Gen. Rafael Videla, the emblematic figure of the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976-83, died Friday inside the jail where he was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, prison officials confirmed. He was 87. The news of the former strongman's death was first disclosed by Cecilia Pando, a military spouse known for defending the actions of the junta. "I learned from the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214597093/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:30:01 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214597093/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 The government today questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly "to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of territories that should be decolonised." Additionally, the government renewed its claim over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands territory. The UN General Assembly yesterday affirmed "the inalienable right of the people of ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606559/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:17 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606559/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Late Argentine dictator General Jorge Videla will be buried without revealing what happened to the tens of thousands who "disappeared" during his rule, rights groups said Saturday. Videla, 87, died Friday of natural causes in Marcos Paz prison, where he was serving two consecutive life sentences plus 50 years for massive rights abuses, including stealing the babies of female prisoners. ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606580/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:16:50 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606580/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 FILE - In this March 24, 1976 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, center, is sworn-in as president at the Buenos Aires Government House accompanied by Adm. Emilio Massera, second from left, and Brig. Orlando Agosti, second from right, members of the junta that overthrew President Isabel Peron. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606033/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:14:20 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214606033/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214605408/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:23:56 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214605408/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 BUENOS AIRES -- General Jorge Videla, Argentina's dictator at the height of its "Dirty War" against leftist activists, died Friday in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214604912/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:35:35 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214604912/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says he welcomes a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war, but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine newspaper. "To resign would be to flee," he told the Clarin on Saturday when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know if Kerry or anyone else has ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214604927/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:11 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214604927/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 SANTIAGO (Reuters) - LATAM Airlines Group SA LAN.SN said on Saturday it will resume flights to, from and within Argentina by 1530 GMT after state company Intercargo unilaterally decided on Friday to stop providing services to the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214602353/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:25:31 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214602353/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Whether grilling slabs of meat at an outdoor market or tricking up a fillet in a fine-dining establishment, the portenos of Buenos Aires bristle with a braggadocio about their beef that would silence even the most boastful of Australian backyard barbecuers. Thousands more of us are heading to South America for one of the world's premium culinary experiences as our love of cooking drives ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214601935/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:28:06 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214601935/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 The death of former Argentine military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has been greeted with mixed feelings of relief and anguish. He passed away in prison on Friday serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship. For human rights groups the hope of finding the 30,000 ‘disappeared’ died along with him. President of the Grandmothers ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214600426/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:13:58 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214600426/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentina's economic activity expanded 2.6% in March from a year earlier and 0.7% over February, the national statistics institute Indec said on Friday. Accumulated growth in the 12 months through March was 1.3%, down from 1.9% in full-year ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214598430/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:22 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214598430/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentina’s Antarctica campaigns are losing their flair and the country is having difficulties to fill vacancies for the 2013/14 season. This follows repeated claims of alleged corruption and delays in supplying the bases and stations plus an overall lack of support from the Defence ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214598431/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:21 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214598431/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. The architect of state terror in Argentina's so-called Dirty War has died. Dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was a general who led ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596301/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:08:40 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596301/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut. With an Argentine on the throne of St. Peter, the South American country's capital city has ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596304/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:39 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596304/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 LAN Chile halted on Friday all its flights in Argentina until Saturday morning after the state company Intercargo which provides ground support for the airline, unilaterally decided to cancel the service despite court orders to the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596305/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:23 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596305/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 In the last business day of the week in Buenos Aires, the parallel market or ‘blue’ dollar rose to 8.95 Pesos (selling price) after its declining tendency during the week, while the official rate ended steady at exchange houses at 5.245 Pesos (selling price). The gap between the two markets stands at over ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596325/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:21 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214596325/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Ronald Reagan photographed in a cowboy hat at Rancho Del Cielo in 1976. The death of ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, a mastermind of the right-wing state terrorism that swept Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, means that one more of Ronald Reagan's old allies is gone from the scene. Videla, who fancied himself a theoretician of anti-leftist repression, died in prison at age 87 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214594958/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:54:44 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214594958/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 LAN Argentina says flights are grounded at least until Saturday due "to the unilateral decision by the state company Intercargo to suspend the service it ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214594959/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:34 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214594959/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri May 17, 2013 7:36pm EDT SANTIAGO May 17 (Reuters) - LATAM Airlines Group SA said its Argentina unit was halting all of its flights in the country until 1330 GMT on Saturday after a state company unilaterally decided to stop providing services to the airline. Intercargo provides Latin America's biggest carrier with ramps at Argentine airports, loads suitcases and manages passenger buses ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593932/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:36:47 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593932/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Former Argentine dictator and general, Rafael Videla, is seen during his trial to investigate the crimes committed during Operation Condor, a campaign established by Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay's dictatorships to quash the opposition during the 1970s, in Buenos Aires on March 5, 2013. Argentina's junta, which Videla led from 1976-81, is held responsible for ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593135/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:17 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593135/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentina 's revolutionaries of the late 1960s and early 70s--had to "disappear" to prevent Argentina from falling into the hands of godless communism. "Argentina is by history Western and Christian," Videla once told a group of British journalists. "A terrorist is defined not only by killing with a gun or planting a bomb, but also by activating with ideas contrary ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593136/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:20:24 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214593136/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 General Jorge Rafael Videla, the de facto president of Argentina during the most brutal phase of the military regime of 1976-81, died Friday of natural causes in his sleep while serving his sentence at a Marcos Paz prison. He was 88. Videla was the face of the 1976-83 dictatorship in Argentina, in which 30,000 people are believed to have been killed. Videla was president during the most ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591956/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:23:10 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591956/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. (NASDAQ: CRESY, BASE: CRES), today announces results for the First nine months of Fiscal Year 2013 ended March 31, ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591981/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:41 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591981/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 By Marta Gurvich (Originally published Aug. 19, 1998) Former Argentine president Jorge Rafael Videla, the dapper dictator who launched the so-called Dirty War in 1976, was arrested on June 9, 1998, for a particularly bizarre crime of state, one that rips at the heart of human relations. Videla, known for his English-tailored suits and his ruthless counterinsurgency theories, stands accused of ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591983/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:37 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591983/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 A state criminal, a dictator, a repressor - there are many ways Argentines refer to former de-facto president Jorge Rafael Videla, who has died in prison at the age of 87. But there is something almost everyone seems to agree upon - he was probably the most hated man in Argentina. Videla was a symbol of a whole era of coups, military rule and fierce repression in South America. He came to ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591982/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:36 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591982/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut. With an Argentine on the throne of St Peter, the South American country's capital city, Buenos Aires, has ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591614/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:46 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591614/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 General Jorge Rafael Videla was the dictator who brought terror to his country in the second half of the 1970s, plunging it into a "dirty war" against subversion. At least 9,000 people were killed by armed forces under his direct command as president of the military junta which had seized power in March 1976. Videla always argued that he had merely been doing his duty. He claimed not ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591437/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:13:29 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214591437/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Buenos Aires, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Argentinian Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said today that history will try late dictator Jorge Rafael Videla for genocide. History will surely consider the dishonour of that dictatorial military regime Videla never regretted, De Carlotto told Continental radio station. There are good men and bad men; this was an evil, ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214589550/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:06:35 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214589550/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Photographs are displayed during the unveiling of the exhibition "Argentina. The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith", in the Carlo Magno wing of Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, May 17, 2013. If Pope Francis is getting a bit nostalgic, all he has to do is slip into St. Peter's Square for a dose of Argentine culture. In a remarkable ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214589552/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:40:08 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214589552/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla (center) is sworn-in as president in Buenos Aires after he seized power in 1976. Jorge Rafael Videla, an ambitious Army chief who seized power in Argentina in 1976 and orchestrated a campaign of terror against his opponents, has died in prison at age 87. Videla, whose "Dirty War" killed at least 15,000 people, perhaps twice as many, died of natural ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588194/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:23 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588194/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva received eight "Honoris Causa" doctorates from national universities in a ceremony held at the Senate today. He urged Argentina and Brazil to "think big" and "have good relations to reinforce Latin American integration." He praised ex president Nestor Kirchner, the late husband of president Cristina ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588147/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:24 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588147/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its "Dirty War," died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla, who led Argentina at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, according to a medical report. Videla launched a campaign against the left in which as many as 30,000 people were ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588195/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:37:17 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588195/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588196/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:36 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214588196/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 It began as a Mercosur wrist-rapping of little landlocked Paraguay but an Argentine-Brazilian-Uruguayan diplomatic effort to isolate Asuncion is backfiring with more backlash against the trio from Paraguay's newly legitimized government. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay mounted international diplomatic sanctions against Paraguay after its Congress jettisoned ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214587936/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:20:34 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214587936/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 17 May 2013 Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power in Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate people considered to be subversives, died in his sleep today while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214586612/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:36:02 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214586612/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentina led the way in the prosecution of those responsible for the torture, killing and disappearance of thousands of people during the many military governments across Latin ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214586738/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:24:52 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214586738/scat/d9ed072d737073b4