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Argentine ex-military dictator sentenced to life Jorge Videla dies in jail cell
Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age ...
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Paraguay ups stakes in electricity row with Brazil Argentina
It began as a Mercosur wrist-rapping of little landlocked Paraguay but an Argentine-Brazilian-Uruguayan diplomatic effort to isolate Asuncion is backfiring with more backlash against the trio from Paraguay's newly legitimized government. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay mounted international diplomatic sanctions against Paraguay after its Congress jettisoned ...
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Argentina dirty war leader dies
17 May 2013 Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power in Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate people considered to be subversives, died in his sleep today while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was ...
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Argentina Death of former military leader who did not escape justice
Argentina led the way in the prosecution of those responsible for the torture, killing and disappearance of thousands of people during the many military governments across Latin ...
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Gil Lavedra Videla will be remembered as a dictator who seeded death in Argentina
Lower House Radical lawmaker Ricardo Gil Lavedra, who was part of the 1985 tribunal judging the military crimes committed during the Dirty War, today stressed that dictator Jorge Rafael Videla "will be remembered as a dictator who seed death" in Argentina. He added "democracy judged him and gave him the opportunity for defense, an opportunity he refused to give to thousands of ...
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Argentina is considering amnesty for those who launders money through its banks
Have some dirty money you need to launder? You may want to consider Argentina as an option. Lawmakers there are considering a measure that would give amnesty to anyone who wants to pull undeclared cash out of tax havens and deposit it in Argentinian banks. The government of President Cristina Kirchner is behind the proposal, saying the country needs to do something drastic in order to prop up ...
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Former Argentina dictator Videla dies
BUENOS AIRES: Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its "Dirty War," died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla, who ruled at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, C5N television reported. As many as 30,000 people were kidnapped and "disappeared" by the military ...
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Former Argentine dictator Videla dead at 87 media
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (L) listens to the verdict during his trial in a courthouse in the province of Cordoba, December 22, ...
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Strong-willed women rewrite Argentine history
Written by Enrique Papatino, Sobornar al olvido won the "El teatro y la historia" award in 2009. Set in the year 1825, the action in Sobornar al olvido is driven by three women: María del Carmen Larraín, the wife of General Juan Gualberto de Las Heras, the BA Province governor and General Governor of the Provincias Unidas; Aymará, an Indian servant in Las ...
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Research and Markets Argentina Exploration and Production Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers ...
Research and Markets: Argentina Exploration and Production (Upstream) Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Fields, Blocks, Supply- demand and competitive ...
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Chevron to the rescue of YPFs shale project
Chevron will invest $1.5 billion in Argentina's ambitious shale development despite skepticism over Argentine President Cristina Fernandez keeping ...
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Argentina to Receive LNG Spot Cargo From Trinidad at Recalada
Argentina , which has no long-term contracts to import liquefied natural gas, is scheduled to receive a spot cargo of the fuel from Trinidad & Tobago today, according to ship-tracking data. The SCF Polar, with a capacity of about 71,500 cubic meters, will arrive at the port of Recalada near Buenos Aires, according to ship transmissions captured by IHS Fairplay on Bloomberg. The vessel ...
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Chevron Says Shale to Help Make Argentina Energy Independent
Chevron Corp. (CVX) , the second-biggest U.S. oil company, said it's preparing an investment that will help make the country energy independent by developing what could be the world's second-largest shale oil reservoir. "Some people ...
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Argentina hurls WTO rebuke in hopes to soften EU biodiesel rule
GENEVA -- Argentina has launched a challenge at the World Trade Organization against European Union rules for importing and marketing biodiesel, the WTO said on ...
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Argentina’s ‘autarkic project’ worsens bilateral relations and multiplies problems
In an interview with the Spanish government news agency EFE, Uruguayan President Jose "Pepe" Mujica said Argentina’s economic "autarkic project" "worsens" bilateral ties and "multiplies" trade troubles. Still, he ruled out pressures on Buenos Aires; "they won’t work," he ...
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Argentine whitewash bill turning into ugly electoral debate
Argentina’s whitewashing bill or more modestly ‘tax amnesty’ has joined the political debate of the coming October mid-term elections. The tax revenue bureau or AFIP confirmed taxpayers’ "legitimate externalization right" "will not be affected" even in the "hypothetical case that the opposition manages to rally a majority parliamentary ...
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Car manufacturing looking up for Buenos Aires
The financial crisis has been hard on Buenos Aires, but recent announcements by Ford and VW seem to herald a change in the city’s fortunes.
The financial crisis has hit cities and countries hard around the world, Buenos Aires and Argentina included. Unemployment is up by record amounts, the government, like governments across the globe, is struggling to contain a budget deficit, and international trade, on which the country so heavily relies, is down by double-digit amounts. Read more
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