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  • 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 ...

  • Ezentis secures fixed network contract from Telefonica de Argentina

    In a statement to the Madrid stock exchange, Spanish telecoms and technology group Ezentis has announced that its Argentine subsidiary, Radiotronica, has been awarded a contract by fixed line telco Telefonica de Argentina. The deal, which is valued ...

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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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  • Reuters Summit Argentina plans to protect seed tech

    By Nicols MisculinBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Grains powerhouse Argentina aims to improve its soy and corn output by adopting a law securing the rights of seed companies to protect their genetic modification technology, a government minister said on Tuesday.The government plans to send a bill to Congress late this year to stop big plantations from using seeds from genetically-modified plants ...

  • Ex-Ford Motor executives charged with Argentina brutalities

    (40 mins ago) Three former Ford Motor Co executives have been charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the 1976 military coup. All three men are now in their 80s. Their case is part of a new wave of prosecutions focusing on corporate support for the dictators who ran Argentina in 1976-1983, and the 150-page indictment ...

  • Former Ford executives indicted for human rights abuses in Argentina

    The former executives of the US automaker Argentina unit have been charged with helping officials abduct 24 workers during the country's "dirty war" of the 1970s and ...

  • Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”

    Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla died May 17 at the age of 87 as the result of injuries suffered from a fall in a prison shower. He was remembered as the head of a savage military dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 murdered and "disappeared" some 30,000 Argentine workers, socialist militants, teachers, students and others perceived as "subversives," while torturing at least ...

  • Relegation woes worry toothless Argentinos Juniors

    BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentinos Juniors, staring into the jaws of relegation, have had a set of false teeth thrown at their coach by an angry fan while the club's president has quit his seat at the Argentine ...

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