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Argentina: travel cash robbed ahead of president’s trip

Sean Ecker — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:25:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Three men on motorcycles held up a man, a government official, carrying $90,000 in cash in a backpack in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 January. The cash was withdrawn ahead of President Cristina Fernandez’ visit to the Middle East, where she is to visit Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey, beginning Sunday 16 January. Police were investigating [...]

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Robbers mount spectacular bank heist in Argentina

Sean Ecker — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:35:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A gang of robbers made off with the contents of 136 safes from the cellars of Banco Provincia in the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires, Argentina over the long New Year’s weekend. They are believed to have taken money and valuables worth $2.5 million. The gang rented a building next to the bank in July [...]

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Another Qantas flight aborted due to electrical failure

Sean Ecker — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:04:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A Qantas flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires with 199 passengers on board has had to return to the airport safely after crew detected smoke coming out of one of the control panels in the cockpit. The Boeing 747 took off Monday, 15 November, and one hour into the flight, passengers noted that the plane [...]

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Former admiral Massera, leader of Argentina’s ’76 coup, dies

Sean Ecker — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:23:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Emilio Eduardo Massera, a leader of the military coup against Isabel Perón’s government in Argentina, has died, aged 85. He died in the Naval Hospital in Buenos Aires of a brain hemorrhage 9 November. Massera, known as “Almirante Cero”, was head of the Navy when the junta led by Jorge Videla took power in Argentina [...]

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Cold snap in S. America takes its toll, gas supplies short

Sean Ecker — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:14:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Scores have died in the southern cone of South America in a wave of Antarctic cold, and schools and some highways have closed. In Bolivia, 18 people were reported to have perished due to the cold, and in Argentina, nine homeless people died in the capital Buenos Aires. It has snowed in the main wine [...]

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Tomas Eloy Martinez dies, Argentine writer and journalist

Sean Ecker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:18:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Tomas Eloy Martinez, journalist and writer, has died at age 75 in Buenos Aires. He was born in Tucuman, in the country’s far northwest, and took up journalism there as a proof reader, then moved to Buenos Aires. In the early 1970s, the country’s politics became increasingly radicalized. Eloy Martinez investigated a massacre of leftists [...]

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Felix Luna, Argentine historian, writer and songwriter, dies, aged 84

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:29:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Felix Luna, historian, writer, politician and songwriter, has died in Buenos Aires, 5 November. He was 84. Born in Buenos Aires in 1925 to a well-connected family from La Rioja in Argentina’s poor northwest, he studied law, but soon turned to writing. He won his first prize for a short story in 1957, and wrote [...]

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Iran’s parliament approves Ahmadinejad cabinet

Sean Ecker — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:31:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Iran’s new government contains one woman, Marzieh-Vahid Dastjerdi, as health minister, the first in the Islamic Republic’s history. The parliament approved most of the cabinet proposed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently re-elected president, although it rejected two other women. The new defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is a hardliner and former chief of the elite Quds force [...]

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Diplomatic tit for tat between Argentina and Honduras

Sean Ecker — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Honduras ordered all members of the Argentine embassy in Tegucigalpa to leave the country within three days, Tuesday 18 August. But Argentine foreign minister, Jorge Taiana, on a trade mission in Mexico, said he had not been informed of the deadline, and his diplomats were staying put. The Honduran ministry of foreign affairs said it [...]

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10,000 human bones found in Argentina

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:38:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A pit filled with an estimated 10,000 human bones is being excavated in La Plata, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, near a former detention centre, possibly giving the first solid proof that many of the country’s “disappeared” population really were killed by the military dictatorship during the late 1970s and early 1980s. BBC

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