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  • Autopsy Ex-Argentina dictator Videla died from injuries suffered in fall in shower at age 87

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations. The 87-year-old was found dead Friday in his prison cell, five days after he fell. The preliminary report released Monday says the hemorrhage that he ...

  • Iran Will Let Argentina Question Suspects in Anti-Semitic Attack

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved a deal with Argentina that clears the way for an investigation of an attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, an Iranian diplomat said Monday. Ali Pakdaman, charge d'affaires at the Iranian Embassy in Argentina, told Argentine radio station Del Plata that the deal will not go through the ...

  • Are We Becoming Argentina - By Daniel Altman

    A popular and often rueful saying in Argentina holds that the country can only be governed by Peronists. Avowed followers of former Argentine president Juan Domingo Pern have used their malleable brand of populism to dominate the political scene for half a century, even when nominally out of power. This kind of domestic hegemony may seem very distant from Washington's bipolar politics, ...

  • Crisis-hit Argentine biodiesel sector eyes U.S. market

    A biodiesel plant in Ocana, Spain. Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to the U.S. market and revitalize a local industry in 'crisis' due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. (SUSANA ...

  • In Argentina there’s a gorgeous apartment for sale and it only costs 409 Bitcoins

    Argentina's inflation . Only this time it wasn't another clandestine way to accumulate illegal US dollars; the group had traveled to the outskirts of Argentina's capital to hear about Bitcoin. That was over six months ago. Today, the meetups have ballooned to include as many as 100 locals interested in learning the basics of Bitcoin, and the latest developments in its ...

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Howards End [Blu-Ray]

Howards End [Blu-Ray]

Howards End is generally considered the high point of the decades-long collaboration between American-born director James Ivory and Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant, who together produced 27 films that spanned multiple genres and covered much of the globe. When one hears the na ... ...

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  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Argentina seeks U.S. environmental okay on biodiesel

    Mon May 20, 2013 5:19pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in "crisis" due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. The head of ...

  • Argentina at Bottom of Beef Exports in Mercosur

    Share/Bookmark Argentina is no longer a world leader in beef exports. Of the countries that make up the trading block Mercosur, Argentina exports the least amount of beef, trailing behind the likes of Brazil, Uruguay, and ...

  • Almirante Irizar en route to becoming another major scandal for Argentina’s navy

    Argentina’ icebreaker Almirante Irizar, docked for repairs since 2007 is en route to becoming another major scandal involving the Ministry of Defence and the Argentine Navy’s fleet. In the last six years Argentina has invested the equivalent of 200 million dollars in the recovery of the vessel that caught fire in 2007 and another 75 million dollars in contracting vessels to supply ...

  • Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements

    Brazil’s main financial newspaper Valor Economico revealed that the recent summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff from Argentina and Brazil was far from polite and enlightening, rather the contrary with "strong disagreements in the fields of trade and investment" shaking the foundations of ...

  • UPDATE 1-Argentinas main grains ports paralyzed by labor strike

    Mon May 20, 2013 4:09pm EDT (Adds comment from port chamber) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Port workers in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario went on strike over wages on Monday, a local union spokesman said, slowing exports from the world's No. 1 soymeal and soyoil supplier. Wage strikes are common in Argentina, where private economists clock annual consumer price inflation at ...

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