Tag: Juan Domingo Peron

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentina wants 1955 bombings to become a crime against humanity

  

  Argentine authorities have asked the Judiciary to stage a “trial for the truth” about June 16, 1955, bombings at Plaza de Mayo during the military revolution that ousted then-President Juan Domingo Perón.

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine Congress and Simon Wiesenthal Center seek answers on 'Submarine' wreck

  

  By LAURENCE DE MELLO IN BUENOS AIRES
  
  The 2022 discovery of a suspected WWII U-boat in Argentine waters has ignited an intense political debate within the closed corridors of the Argentine Government, resuscitating embarrassing historical ties between President General Juan Domingo Peron and Nazi Germany.

• Saturday, May 6th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  No Argentine special delegation to Charles III Coronation; when Peron proposed UK the purchase of Falklands

  

  Contrary to all the pageantry, rituals, and displays of past Coronations in the United Kingdom, this time Argentina is sending no special, much less extraordinary delegation to the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, and is limited to the attendance of its ambassador in London, Javier Figueroa.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 21:26 UTC

  When Peron offered to buy the Falklands/Malvinas in a long term deal

  

  Some seven decades ago when the crowing of the princess to become Queen Elizabeth II, Argentine president General Juan Domingo Peron sent as his representative and envoy to the ceremony his vice president, Admiral Alberto Teisaire.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina wants to deepen ties with China, President Fernández says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday highlighted “the historic relationship” between former leaders Juan Domingo Perón and Mao Tse-Tung as he took part as a guest during the virtual ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

• Monday, May 24th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Scholar highlights differences between Uruguayans and Argentines

  

  Uruguayan-Canadian scientist Nicolás Saldías of the Intelligence Unit within the famed publication The Economist, has described that ”Argentina and Uruguay are two countries that could be defined as twin brothers raised by different families.”

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina's opposition confirms and displays a unified front in a massive rally

  

  With less than ten days for the Argentine presidential election, the catch-all Peronist movement that has dominated the country's political scene for decades managed a family picture with all groupings united in support of the presidential ticket headed by Alberto Fernandez and ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Thule island occupation: Argentine navy tested UK's resolve as part of its long term plan to take the Falklands

  

  The Argentine government declassified a secret decree from the latest military dictatorship which authorized and funded an operation for the “effective and peaceful” occupation of one of the South Atlantic islands, occupied by the UK , in what was considered a first step to the ultimate goal of taking over the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:02 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina with a “dry border” for the first time in history

  

  Uruguay and Argentina will have for the first time a “dry border”. This is not because historians, cartographers or geographers suddenly found out, or Uruguay grabbed land from its larger neighbor.

• 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.