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  • Clases de Yoga in Buenos Aires Argentina Now Offered by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center

    The Yoga classes are offered in a calm environment, allowing visitors to enjoy the benefits of Yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, and healthy vegetarian food, among ...

  • Francis to Argentine Bishops Be Bold

    Excuses Himself From Plenary Assembly Due to 'Commitments Assumed Recently'By StaffVATICAN CITY, April 18, 2013 (Zenit.org) - In a note reflecting Francis' sense of humor as well as his missionary zeal, the Pope offered guidelines to the bishops of Argentina, gathered in their plenary assembly till Saturday.Francis would have participated in the plenary assembly had he not been ...

  • Francis Letter to Argentine Bishops Assembly

    "We must come out of ourselves and grow in boldness"VATICAN CITY, April 18, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is a translation of the letter Pope Francis sent to the 105th plenary assembly of the Argentine episcopal conference. The letter is dated March 25 and was posted by the episcopal conference Wednesday. The plenary assembly is under way through Saturday.* * *Dear Brothers:I am sending ...

  • Argentina ‘Dirty War’ dictator Videla dies

    WORLD CUP 1979: File picture shows Videla waving after the Argentine U-20 soccer team won the 1979 World Cup in Japan. -- AFP photo 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 87.Videla launched a ferocious crackdown on leftists and ...

  • Argentina urges the United Nations to revise decolonization process

    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 ...

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Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) [Blu-Ray]

Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) [Blu-Ray]

Three Colors: Red, the last film in Krzysztof Kielowskis trilogy based around the three ideals of the French national motto--libert, galit, fraternit (liberty, equality, fraternity)--also turned out to be the final film of the great filmmakers career. He announced his ret ... ...

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  • Argentina ex-dictator takes secrets to the grave

    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 ...

  • AP reporter recalls brush with death during Argentinas dictatorship under Jorge Rafael Videla

    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 ...

  • Reporter remembers fear in Videlas Argentina

    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 ...

  • Assad tells Argentine paper he wont go

    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 ...

  • LATAM Airlines to resume Argentina flights later Saturday

    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 ...

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