Tag: Juan Domingo Peron

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 18:40 UTC

  Writer, historian Osvaldo Bayer dies at age 91

  

  Argentine writer and historian Osvaldo Bayer died Monday at the age of 91, his daughter Ana confirmed on social media. “Unfortunately I have to give a sad news, my dad Osvaldo Bayer has died,” she wrote on Facebook in Spanish, Italian and German.

• Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 05:31 UTC

  Evita Peron's 1951 Cadillac official limousine to be auctioned in England

  

  A 1951 Cadillac which was Argentina's charismatic leader Evita Peron official limousine will be auctioned on Sunday 20 March by Bonhams at Chichester, southern England. The going price for the black classic, which was also used by Evita´s husband, three times Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron, is estimated at between 120.000 and 150.000 Euros.

• Monday, August 3rd 2015 - 09:05 UTC

  “You can't understand Pope Francis without Juan Peron and Evita Peron” says the Washington Post

  

  Pope Francis will be visiting the United States next September, where he will address the United States congress, the United Nations General Assembly and attend the Family Congress to be held in Philadelphia.

• Thursday, July 24th 2014 - 06:09 UTC

  Peron's iconic 1951 Cadillac limousine to be auctioned in London

  

  A 1951 Cadillac limousine owned by former Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron will be auctioned at Silverstone Auctions in England. The car, which was part of a Peron-Eva exhibition at the Eva Peron Museum in Buenos Aires, is privately owned, and was handed over to the auction house. The Cadillac has an estimated value of between 200,000 and 260,000 pounds.

• Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 01:49 UTC

  Argentina thanks Paraguay for granting General Peron asylum in 1955

  

  The government of President Cristina Fernandez thanked Paraguay for granting political asylum to Juan Domingo Peron, three times elected president of Argentina, at their embassy in Buenos Aires, when he was ousted by a military coup in September 1955

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas Islands claim, an act of “epic stupidity” says El Pais from Madrid

  

  John Carlin, the British writer and journalist who works for Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais, with a high degree of irony strongly criticized Argentina’s claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as an ‘epic idiocy’.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 08:50 UTC

  Evita Peron 100 Pesos bill to commemorate 60th anniversary of her death

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández unveiled a new 100 Pesos note featuring Eva Perón’s portrait to commemorate the 60th anniversary of her death in 1952. The Wednesday ceremony at Government House convened political allies and representatives from the banking and financial sectors.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  Argentine will issue bills with the likeness of the iconic Evita Peron

  

  Argentina is planning to issue bills bearing the likeness of Evita Duarte to mark the sixtieth anniversary on July 26th of the death of the wife of three times president Juan Domingo Peron, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 21:23 UTC

  ”Cristina Fernandez, the (elected) president with most power in the history of Argentina”

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has more power than Juan Domingo Peron “ever had” and Peronism in Argentina is guarantee of governance, according to Carlos Corach a former Interior minister from former President Carlos Menem administration and a respected solicitor and political analyst.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 08:19 UTC

  Did Argentina Trade Visas for Holocaust Loot?

  

  A new book about the darker side of Latin-American politics alleges some disturbing dealings between Argentina and Hitler’s cronies.