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  • Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87

    General Jorge Rafael Videla, who headed the bloody military junta that seized power in Argentina in 1976, died last Friday in a Marcos Paz prison cell. The coup that toppled the government of President Isabel Peron unleashed both economic devastation as well as mass repression against the working class for seven years (the "dirty war") until it fell following the defeat of ...

  • World Briefing | The Americas Argentina Increases of Cash Handouts to Poor

    Argentina 's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees. ...

  • Argentine ports strike stalls oilseed and grains exports at peak harvest time

    Argentine longshoremen on strike at the peak of summer harvests exports have scores of grains ships delayed in and around due to a three-day-old conflict that threatens to bog down shipments at a time of heightened world demand for South American soy and corn, according to industry ...

  • Santa Fe Win 3-1 Unfazed by High Altitude in Cusco

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  • Argentina calling Chinese firms

    China, Argentina vow to enhance ties " (China Daily, May 11) Argentina can substantially increase the output of its agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, wheat and other food grains. Besides, it is already a major producer of beef and dairy products. Chinese companies should, therefore, think of starting large-scale joint ventures to produce non-genetically modified soybeans, ...

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Friends With Kids

Friends With Kids

Have you ever wondered what a remake of When Harry Met Sally (1989) populated almost entirely with unlikeable characters would look like? Neither have I, but that seems to be what writer/director/star Jennifer Westfeldt was going for in Friends With Kids, a roman ... ...

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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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