Tag: Argentina

Lengthy negotiations with Great Britain led to the “Andes Agreement” in February 1948 (or Andes, from the English transatlantic which then arrived in the first post-war voyage), which involves exchanges of…

But Perón’s greatest concern was to ensure the implementation of his vast projects of social improvement and economic, political and military strengthening of the country. To this end, he first…

Meanwhile, the intervention of the Grupo de Oficiales Unidos was preparing a new twist; with 24 February the presidential functions were exercised by gen. E. Farrel, former Minister of War; but Ramírez’s…

According to JUSTINSHOES, the conflict was more serious, when the radicals demanded the cancellation of elections in the provinces of Mendoza and Santa Fé and, failing to obtain it, resorted…

President Roberto Ortiz, a legalitarian conservative devoted to traditions, could not feel sympathy for anti-liberal and demagogic tendencies, nor believe that he could enslave and exploit them without danger. In…

The Argentine population, which represented 0.13% of the world population in 1869, would go on to represent 0.55% in 1930, a proportion in which, approximately, it would stabilize since then. The country…

In May 1999, President Menem resigned from a new term. The opposition Alliance, the Radical Party and the center-left, appointed Fernando De la Rúa, of the UCR, as their presidential candidate, who…

Territorial organization The four regions in which the Argentine provinces are grouped. The province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in yellow, do not make up…

The Constitution of 1853 established a representative, republican and federal system of government, which has been maintained by all the constitutional reforms carried out since then. Argentina was formed by the federative…

The name Argentina comes from the Latin “argentum” (silver) and is associated with the legend of the Sierra de la Plata, common among the first European explorers of the region, both…