Provides the latest RSS feeds for Argentina News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Argentina Star.com http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/cat/d9ed072d737073b4/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:36 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:36 -0400 30 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 crimes ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214654796/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:10:02 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214654796/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214677808/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:27:03 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214677808/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 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 written by Judge Alicia Vence reads like a history lesson, going to considerable lengths to explain why their ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214676581/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:27:03 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214676581/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214676582/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:20 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214676582/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 To the joy of neighboring rivals, Argentina's beef exports are dwindling and traders blame government policies. At the same time as Argentine beef exports plummet, neighboring Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are raising their market share, indicating a recovery in Argentina's beef exports will be an uphill task for both government and traders. Argentine beef exports fell from 771,000 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675721/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:13:49 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675721/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 F ) Argentine subsidiary for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of 24 workers by a military government in the 1970s. The three men are charged with helping the military to identify the victims, who were abducted between March and August of 1976, according to a ruling by federal judge Alicia Vence. The judge also accused the defendants of allowing the military to establish an ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675722/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:13:47 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675722/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Argentina 's tax agency sent 50 officials to the local unit of billionaire Kenneth Dart's Dart Container Corp. as part of an investigation ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675723/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:13:46 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214675723/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 At a first glance, it would appear that Argentina has all of the characteristics of a solar market still in its infancy yet poised to take-off at any moment. Combined, a strong policy framework, demonstrated political willpower, an excellent solar resource and a growing demand for energy all appear to provide the necessary conditions for Argentina to become a major growth opportunity within the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214674386/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:06 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214674386/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 The Six on route to Retiro. (Photo: Beatrice Murch) The city government has today announced plans to open a new bus terminal in Villa Soldati in 2015, creating 1,200 new jobs in Buenos Aires. The terminal, which is expected to open in September 2015, is being developed in a bid to reduce traffic levels at the city’s Retiro terminal; new bus routes are expected to absorb up to 40% of the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214671486/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:36 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214671486/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214671055/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:15 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214671055/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669746/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:56:02 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669746/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669750/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:45:02 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669750/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669751/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:43:28 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669751/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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, ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669753/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:05 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214669753/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214665939/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:42 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214665939/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214663971/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:36 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214663971/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214664008/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:40:00 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214664008/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214660685/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:27 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214660685/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Eduardo Amadeo, a legislator from the opposition Peronist Front, left, speaks against an agreement between Argentina and Iran in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The signs read in Spanish "Iran kills," left, and "Do not betray their memory, no to the agreement with the Iran regime." (AP Photo/Victor R. ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214657763/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:12:52 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214657763/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 UK conditioned a possible re-launching of agreements on hydrocarbons and fisheries in the South Atlantic to Argentina accepting ‘there will be no sovereignty negotiations’ regarding the Malvinas Islands and called for the Argentine government to respect the wishes of the Falkland ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214656844/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:46:20 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214656844/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214655056/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:38:55 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214655056/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214655057/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:36:41 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214655057/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 suffered ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214650344/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:40 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214650344/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214649139/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:43 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214649139/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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, ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214649166/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:24:27 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214649166/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214644144/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:26:51 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214644144/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214644145/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:07:20 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214644145/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 the ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214643881/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:19:18 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214643881/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 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 ... http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214642823/scat/d9ed072d737073b4 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:10:11 -0400 http://www.argentinastar.com/index.php/sid/214642823/scat/d9ed072d737073b4