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  • Argentina Judicial Reform A Farewell to thee Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers.

    By Rodolfo Arrate (*) - The Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges famously declared: "Democracy is an abuse of statistics". Observing the evolution of the political regime in Argentina nowadays, the poet’s sentence may well have turned into a ...

  • Argentine leader raises cash handouts 35 percent

    Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in first-quarter ...

  • Why you won’t be eating an Argentinian steak anytime soon

    When global demand for Argentina's beef drove exports up in the early 2000s, farmer's didn't complain--they were turning a profit shipping out cattle. But locals did. The global demand drove up the price of beef domestically as well. Coupled with the country's 2001 default and subsequent inflationary problems, steak got really expensive. It all culminated in 2005, when ...

  • Argentinas Qom Indians ask President Fernandez for help getting ancestral lands returned

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land. Justices met with Qom leader Felix Diaz and other tribal members but the governor of Formosa province, Gildo Insfran, was a no-show at the conciliation hearing, sending lower-level functionaries instead. The Qom refuse to move from land around the ...

  • Argentine Indians ask president for their lands

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -; Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral ...

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Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages) [DVD]

Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages) [DVD]

Pioneering Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's name doesn't appear in a lot of general film histories, even though it should. He made 14 films from the teens through the early '40s, including his first two, The Mysterious X (1913) and The Night of Revenge (1915), which are as technically innovative and stylistically advanced as anything American directors such as D.W. Griffith a ... ...

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  • UPDATE 2-Strike stalls scores of grains ships in Argentina

    Wed May 22, 2013 5:23pm EDT * U.S. grain stocks low this year after drought * World turns toward South America for soy, corn * High Argentine inflation fuels tough wage demands (Recasts with updated figures, new sourcing, adds context) By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, May 22 (Reuters) - Scores of grains ships were delayed in and around Argentina on Wednesday due to a three-day-old strike by ...

  • Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentinian torture cases

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. All three men are now in their ...

  • Argentine dictator Videlas burial protested

    FILE - In this March 24, 1977 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla is seen commemorating the first anniversary of the military coup in Asuncion, Argentina. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life sentences at the Marcos Paz prison for crimes against humanity. Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of ...

  • Cristina Fernandez We are Building an Argentina of Rights

    Buenos Aires, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Argentina is building a country today where human, social and economic rights go hand in hand, assured President Cristina Fernandez at the inauguration of the restored Library at the National College of La Plata University. The facility is named Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and is the third and final stage of the Comprehensive Recovery Plan for the National ...

  • An Argentine Scandal The Money Laundering Investigation

    Nstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner (photo: Wikimedia commons) What started as a power struggle between the two sides has developed into a political war, and the latest report broadcast by one of Clarn’s TV channels implicating President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner and her late husband Nstor Kirchner in a money laundering scheme, promises to antagonise the situation ...

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