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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 ...

  • Falklands optimism about identification of unknown Argentine delegation

    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 ...

  • Argentina absorbs 93 of beef production exports tumble behind Paraguay

    Argentine government trade restrictions on overseas sales of beef have turned Paraguay into Mercosur third largest exporter behind Brazil and Uruguay. The first place last year belonged to Brazil with exports of 1.3 million tons; Uruguay, 350.000 tons; Paraguay, 210.00 and finally Argentina.183.000 ...

  • Argentine Primera Division Wrap Tigre earn point at Lanus

    Tigre have denied Lanus the opportunity to go top of Argentina's Primera Division, holding on for a scoreless draw at home.Goalkeeper Damian Albil was the key man for Tigre as he made a number of crucial saves to deny Lanus' attackers, which kept the visitors in second position in the Primera Division despite leaders Newell's Old Boys only managing a draw away to ...

  • 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 ...

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Blast From the Past

Hollywood loves its time-bending fish-out-of-water stories, whether that be sending '80s teenager Michael J. Fox into the mid-'50s in "Back to the Future" (1985) or unfreezing '60s-era British superspy Mike Myers in the 1990s in "Austin Powers" (1997). Seeing the members of one generation wallowing helplessly in another time and place is always good for a few yuks and even some amusing commentary ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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