Tag: Raul Alfonsin

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentine president's wife trip to Spain viewed as preparation for future exile

  

  Argentina's political future seems to be no mystery regarding the upcoming October 27 presidential elections. So much so that First Lady Juliana Awada's snap trip Sunday to Madrid citing entertainment and social engagements was announced by the media as a preparation for a post December 10 exile that looks inevitable after the outcome of the August 11 primaries.

• Wednesday, August 27th 2014 - 20:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez proposes a new capital for Argentina and compares herself with San Martín

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez threw her weight behind moving the capital Buenos Aires to the northern province of Santiago del Estero, an idea hitherto only pioneered by Lower House Speaker Julian Domínguez.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:52 UTC

  Argentina celebrates 30 years of democracy and free elections in 1983, 16 months after defeat in Malvinas

  

  Argentina is recalling with different acts and commemoration ceremonies the thirty years since the return of democracy when Raul Alfonsin was elected president of Argentina. On October 30 1983, and after a long recount of votes, Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union (UCR) secured a landmark victory over the Peronist Justicialist Party.

• Friday, May 17th 2013 - 17:58 UTC

  Argentine ex-military dictator sentenced to life, Jorge Videla dies in jail cell

  

  Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers criticize Lady Thatcher over the ‘Belgrano’ and for promoting economic ‘neo-liberalism’

  

  The Argentine government remains silent on the death last Monday of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but several lawmakers, former officials and Malvinas veterans organizations did have something say and not only linked to the Falklands war and the sinking of the Argentine cruiser ‘Belgrano’ in May 1982.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  The night before the Argentine military coup 24 March 1976, according to Videla

  

  From jail where he is serving two life sentences for crimes against humanity Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla gave some insights to the day before the 24 March 1976 military coup when then president Isabel Martinez de Peron called him asking support from the Armed Forces for her eroding administration.