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Argentina elections: Voters pick new president
Argentines have been voting to choose a new president to replace Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. Ms Fernandez, who stands down after eight years in power, says she leaves Argentines a better country. Her hand-picked successor, left-winger Daniel Scioli, led opinion polls. He is facing a strong challenge from the centre-right mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri.
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Mauricio Macri: Argentina’s new president vows to unite nation
Mauricio Macri vows to unite Argentina as he is sworn in as president, in a ceremony boycotted by predecessor Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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Argentina's Underwater Town that was Submerged for 30 years
The town of Epecuen in Argentina was flooded 30 years ago, but the ruins of the town have now emerged.
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Dolphin Dies Being Passed Around For Selfies
A young dolphin has died after beachgoers took it from the sea to pose for photographs with it. Huge crowds gathered around the small animal on the beach resort at Santa Teresita in Argentina after one man picked it up. But it appears it quickly overheated and died while out of the water. It was still being passed around by the beachgoers after its death and was later left discarded in the sand.
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Obama’s Argentina visit stirs memories of ‘dirty war’
The US president has arrived in Argentina to start a visit aimed at rapprochement. It is expected he will seek to sweeten relations soured by US support for the former dictatorship’s “Dirty War” against dissidents.
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Argentine cleaner Enrique Ferrari’s double life as prize-winning writer
When the Buenos Aires subway closes at night, Enrique Ferrari goes underground to mop the platforms -- and to polish his next thriller. By Sonia Avalos.
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Panama Papers: Argentina President Macri has 'nothing to hide'
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has pledged to assert his innocence when he appears before a federal prosecutor on Friday to explain his finances. An investigation began on Thursday after it transpired Mr Macri was mentioned in the Panama Papers, leaked files of law firm Mossack Fonseca. Mr Macri said he would file a judicial "declaration of certainty" so the court can see he is telling the truth. In a televised address, he vowed to prove he had done nothing wrong.
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Macri-nomics: Argentina’s Fast and Furious Return to Neoliberalism
When on October 25, 2015, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s (CFK) designated presidential candidate, Daniel Scioli, won the first round of elections by a 3% margin, many viewed it as a defeat. There are good reasons for this… By Alan B. Cibles.
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Five Die From Mystery Drug At Rave Festival
At least five people have died and five are critically ill after apparently taking an unknown drug at an electronic music festival in Argentina. Two people in their 20s died during the Time Warp festival in Buenos Aires on Friday and three others died in an ambulance or at a hospital. Officials say most of those still in hospital are in comas. Dr Alberto Crescenti said medics are trying to determine what sort of drug caused the deaths.
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PADRE
Day by day, the daughter of an elder military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
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Hundreds of animals freed as 140-year-old Argentina zoo closes its doors
Animals by the hundreds are being set free as Buenos Aires closes its 140-year-old Palermo zoo. Among the first to leave will be birds of prey like owls and chimangos, destined for a reserve along the shores of the Rio de la Plata south of the capital. They will be placed there in larger confines that will give them room to stretch and strengthen their winds before they're ready for the wild. Others among the 1,500 animals at the zoo are destined for reserves in Argentina and abroad as their old home is transformed into a park.
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100-Year-Old Theatre Converted Into Stunning Bookstore
Tucked away in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires is a beautiful bookshop called El Ateneo Grand Splendid. It is built within the almost 100-year-old Grand Splendid Theater, which opened in 1919. The theatre was later converted into a cinema and eventually…
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How an Argentinian man learned his 'father' may have killed his real parents
When he was a child, Guillermo’s parents nicknamed him “the Jew”. Theirs was not a peaceful home: air force intelligence officer Francisco Gómez beat his wife Teodora Jofre frequently. “I saw him threaten her with a knife, hit her with a rifle butt, throw her on the floor and shout he would put a bullet in her,” Guillermo eventually told a court in Buenos Aires, years later. On school holidays, Gómez would take Guillermo to spend the day at the Buenos Aires Regional Intelligence (Riba) air force base. Fellow agents took the boy out for ice cream or let him play with their unloaded guns.
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How an Argentinian man learned his 'father' may have killed his real parents
From 1976 to 1983, hundreds of babies were taken from the ‘disappeared’ and raised by military families. Guillermo Pérez Roisinblit was one – and the man who raised him worked at the base where his parents were murdered
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Kissinger hindered US effort to end mass killings in Argentina, according to files
Newly declassified files show the former secretary of state jeopardized efforts to crackdown on bloodshed by Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship. By Uki Goñi.
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Kissinger hindered US effort to end mass killings in Argentina, according to files
Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger jeopardized US efforts to stop mass killings by Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship by congratulating the country’s military leaders for “wiping out” terrorism, according to a large trove of newly declassified state department files. The documents, which were released on Monday night, show how Kissinger’s close relationship to Argentina’s military rulers hindered Jimmy Carter’s carrot-and-stick attempts to influence the regime during his 1977-81 presidency.
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Argentina Not Only Wants To Bring In E-Voting, It Will Make It Illegal To Check The System For Electoral Fraud
Earlier this year, we wrote about Australia's refusal to allow researchers to check e-voting software being used in that country. The situation in Argentina seems to be even worse.
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A Neglected South American Masterpiece
It took sixty years for Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel “Zama,” recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a classic, to be translated into English. By Benjamin Kunkel.
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The Living Disappeared
During Argentina’s military dictatorship, some 500 babies were born in secret torture centers or kidnapped. A group of grandmothers spent the next four decades searching for them. One was named Martín. By Bridget Huber.
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The world’s first glow-in-the-dark frog found in Argentina
Scientists in Argentina have discovered a frog that glows in moonlight and at twilight. Fluorescence in terrestrial environments had previously only been traced to a few species of insects and birds and had never been scientifically reported in any of the world’s 7,000-plus amphibian species. A team of herpetologists made the headline-grabbing discovery in the outskirts of the city of Santa Fe, Argentina, while collecting frogs to research the biochemical cloricia in amphibians.
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