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  • Autopsy reveals Argentine ex-dictator died of heart attack

    Gen. Rafael Videla, the emblematic figure of the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976-83, died of a heart attack resulting from injuries and broken bones he suffered five days earlier when he fell in the shower, judicial sources told the official Telam news agency. The erstwhile strongman was found dead Friday inside his cell at the prison where he was serving a life sentence for ...

  • Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -; Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military ...

  • New Judgment in Argentina Related to the Last Dictatorship

    Buenos Aires, May 21 (Prensa Latina) A new statement related to the last dictatorship in Argentina met today against two former managers and former security chief of the Ford company, accused of participating in the kidnapping of 24 workers in 1976. According to the presecution, the defendants cooperated with the military coup supplying personal details and photographs of the workers. They also ...

  • AFIP raids headquarters of Kenneth Darts company in Buenos Aires

    AFIP tax agency officials today raided the headquarters of foam-cup maker Dart Sudamericana SRL, owned by billionaire Kenneth Dart, Argentina’s largest private creditor. The company is located in Pilar district, in the Northern area of Buenos Aires province, where AFIP raided the accountant and customs offices on a tax evasion ...

  • Teachers Poised to Begin More Strikes in Buenos Aires Province

    SUTEBA protest (photo: Suteba) The Unified Union of Educational Workers in Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) has warned that a strike of 96 hours will go ahead if the government refuses to hold further wage negotiation talks by today. SUTEBA head Roberto Baradel said that apart from salary hikes, the union is also lobbying for increased government investment in education. ';The lack of investment is ...

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Kagemusha [DVD]

Kagemusha [DVD]

By 1980, as he was entering the fifth decade of his career as a film director, Akira Kurosawa was probably best known outside of his native Japan for his samurai films, including Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), and Sanjuro (1962). W ... ...

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  • Brazil Argentina US Have Largest Number Registered for WYD

    Groups from the United States comprise the third largest national delegation of pilgrims going to the 28th World Youth Day, this year slated for July 23-28 in Rio de Janeiro, ...

  • Argentina Miners Pack Up Picks As Country Loses Its Luster

    Argentina's mining sector is on the ropes as soaring costs and government regulations scuttle dreams of a mining boom in a country better known for its grain and beef exports.Mining exploration as measured by both investment and drilling plunged 50% on the year in 2012 and is likely to slump an additional 20% this year, said Julio Rios Gomez, president of mining exploration chamber ...

  • Democracia K What’s going on in Argentina

    May 25th marks the tenth anniversary of Nstor Kirchner being inaugurated President of Argentina. At the time, few Argentines would have imagined what was in store for their country with the advent of the "K" - for Kirchner - Regime. Especially after his hand-picked successor Cristina Kirchner became president in 2007, later re-elected in 2011. A year and a half into Cristina's ...

  • Falklands optimism about identification of the unknown Argentine soldiers

    An Argentine delegation involved in human rights that in early May visited the Falkland Islands is optimistic about the possibility of advancing in the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried as unknown in unmarked graves at the Darwin ...

  • No Argentina is not a cautionary tale for the eurozone | Nikos Chrysoloras

    A true giant of modern thought, Ludwig Wittgenstein believed that all problems in philosophy arise from the misguided use of language. Although this opinion, put forward in his early writings, seems far-fetched nowadays, Wittgenstein had a point.Since the start of the sovereign debt crisis, two false analogies have prevailed in the public dialogue regarding Europe: the first draws parallels ...

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