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Argentine leader raises cash handouts 35 percent

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:43:30 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's president announced a $3.2 billion annual increase in cash handouts for the poor, students and pregnant women Wednesday, saying the programs will reach nearly 700,000 additional children, pay their families 35 percent more and encourage consumer spending in what is an election year.

Argentine Indians ask president for their lands

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:08:12 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land.

Argentine dictator Videla's burial protested

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:18:18 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentines in the hometown of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla are upset at the prospect that he may be buried there.

Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:15 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.

Ex-Arg. dictator Videla died after shower fall

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:31:27 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations.

River Plate rallies for 2-2 draw with Union

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:08:21 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - River Plate failed to gain ground on Argentine first-division leader Newell's Old Boys after coming from behind to draw 2-2 with Union on Sunday.

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:56:03 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.

LAN suspends flights in Argentina over conflict

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:21 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Hundreds of passengers remained stranded at Argentina's airports on Friday after LAN Airlines S.A. temporarily suspended all domestic and international flights over a dispute with a state-owned company that is the country's sole handler of passenger luggage.

Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:48:50 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called "subversives," died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was 87.

Homesick pope? Vatican opens Argentine gaucho show

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:07:05 -0400

VATICAN CITY - If Pope Francis is feeling a bit homesick these days, he need only go downstairs to St. Peter's Square.

Argentina brokers 24 pct wage hikes for millions

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:58:04 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Two million Argentines will get wage hikes of 24 percent under a deal President Cristina Fernandez brokered with six allied labor unions.

Maradona's return home surrounded by tumult

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:02:38 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Diego Maradona is back in Argentina and, as usual, his return has been surrounded by controversy.

Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:27:35 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut.

Religion: Parish, diocesan experience key to Pope Francis'...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:48:54 -0400

By TERRY MATTINGLY - There is nothing unusual about a Catholic leader urging priests to draw closer to their flocks, to focus on day-to-day issues that bridge the gap between pulpit and pew.

Amnesty for undeclared dollars divides Argentina

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:07:52 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A plan to get Argentines to pull their undeclared U.S. dollars from under their mattresses and out of illegal tax havens, and deposit them in the banking system is eliciting warnings that it will turn the country into a magnet for money launderers and organized crime.

5 Argentines convicted of killing baby in robbery

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:12:23 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Five men accused of robbing bank customers were sentenced to life in prison for murder on Monday for killing the child of a pregnant woman who was chased down by motorcycle gunmen and shot twice as she begged for mercy.

American Connor Fields wins BMX World Cup stop

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:36:07 -0400

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina - American rider Connor Fields followed his World Cup time trial victory by taking first place in the BMX supercross final on Saturday in Argentina.

Parker: Mark Sanford, welcome back to Washington

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:17:54 -0400

By STAR PARKER - Put me down as happy to see former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford coming back to Washington. He handily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch in Tuesday's special election for a House seat he himself once held.

AP PHOTOS: Eerie ghost town comes up for air

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:07:14 -0400

EPECUEN, Argentina - A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.

Uruguay general gets 28 years in prisoner's murder

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:53:45 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Uruguay has convicted an active general for dictatorship-era human rights violations for the first time. Gen. Miguel Dalmao was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of a communist professor.

Venezuela leader, rivals take battle on the road

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:23:19 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his Argentine counterpart and ally, Cristina Fernandez, announced new energy and food agreements Wednesday, then Maduro cheered supporters of Argentina's president with a rousing speech at a soccer-stadium rally.

Mark Sanford renews career, must build reputation

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:59:21 -0400

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - Mark Sanford is headed back to Congress after reviving his political career and winning his old House seat.

Argentina offers tax amnesty for undeclared cash

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:59:58 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's government announced new measures on Tuesday intended to suck up undeclared dollars in response to growing pressure to abruptly devalue the nation's currency.

AP PHOTOS: Buenos Aires a street art Mecca

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:57:18 -0400

BUENOS AIRES. Argentina - In most major cities, street artists create their works under cover of darkness, spray-painting their graffiti quickly to elude arrest. Not so in Buenos Aires, where painters have found a surplus of empty walls to splash their colors on, building owners who readily consent to having their walls painted, and a local government that has subsidized some of the urban murals.

Guardiola: I have no plans to return to Barcelona

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:13:56 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who will take over next season at Bayern Munich, says he has no plans to return to the Spanish club.