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Lula Argentina Brazil should think big to reinforce Latin American integration
Former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva received eight "Honoris Causa" doctorates from national universities in a ceremony held at the Senate today. He urged Argentina and Brazil to "think big" and "have good relations to reinforce Latin American integration." He praised ex president Nestor Kirchner, the late husband of president Cristina ...
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Ex-dictator who waged Argentinas Dirty War dies
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 led Argentina at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, according to a medical report. Videla launched a campaign against the left in which as many as 30,000 people were ...
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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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Argentine ex-dictator Videla dies in prison
View Photo Associated Press/Eduardo Di Baia, File - FILE - In this June 1978 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla talks to journalists at the Buenos Aires Government Palace, in Argentina. The former Argentine ...
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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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Chemical castration in Argentina for rapists?
Chemical castration of rapists seems a good way to prevent them from re-offending. But, if the 'treatment' is reversible by simply not taking the medicine anymore, and if taking the treatment get the rapist a light sentence, is it fair that the victim still has to carry his child if he makes her pregnant in the attack?
It was announced by officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province on the 21st of March, 2010, that chemical castration has been authorized for rapists convicted in the province. The move came after what the authorities called, a “significant rise” in the number of sexual assaults last year. Read more
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