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The migrants who didn’t make it to Buenos Aires
Posted on 19/05/2012
When the Italian transatlantic steamer the Sirio foundered off the coast of Spain on a hot afternoon in August 1906, 300 passengers, most of them Italian and Spanish migrants on their way...
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Was the 1978 World Cup in Argentina fixed?
Posted on 20/04/2012
Daniel Passarella lifts the cup On 25 June 1978 Argentines sang their lungs out in celebration of their national team’s victory over the Netherlands at the World Cup final in Buenos...
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Cristina, Respol YPF, The Adonia and British imports
Posted on 02/03/2012
As Cristina and her government step it up a gear in their dispute with the United Kingdom, this week pretty much banning the import of British products and turning away a cruise ship...
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Disaster on El Sarmiento
Posted on 24/02/2012
With fifty fatalities, over six hundred injured and at the time of writing, the recent re-emergence of two of the three unaccounted for passengers more than 48 hours after the accident, the...
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Argentina's football league to be called The Crucero...
Posted on 07/02/2012
With the thirty year anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom approaching, both countries have recently become more and more fixated on political...
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Holiday time
Posted on 11/01/2012
The crowded beaches of Mar del Plata Today’s edition of Clarin includes an article that proclaims that Buenos Aires is becoming a tropical city. According to Osvaldo Canziani, a...
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Corruption in Argentina
Posted on 14/12/2011
The culprits of ten years of bribery on a grand scale in Argentina have finally been charged by prosecutors in the USA. The accused, all former executives of Siemens AG who reside in...
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Argentina and Spain
Posted on 12/12/2011
After losing to Spain in the final of the 2008 Davis Cup in Mar del Plata, Argentina repeated the loss this last week when they were beaten by the Spaniards in Seville, an event which saw...
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Post election
Posted on 03/11/2011
So Cristina Fernández de Kirchner walked off with rather a decisive victory in last month’s presidential election, obtaining 53.96% of all votes and avoiding a second round of...
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