Argentine Republic República Argentina CAPITAL: Buenos Aires FLAG: The national flag consists of a white horizontal stripe between two light blue horizontal stripes. Centered in the white band is a radiant yellow sun with a human face. ANTHEM:...
After a period of relative stability in the 1990s, Argentina has faced renewed economic turmoil as its recession deepened from 1998 to 2001. A period of intense political upheaval marked the country in late 2001 as the government resorted to desperate...
The word Argentina is derived from the Latin word "argentum," which in English means silver. For this reason Argentina is sometimes called "The Land of Silver." The official name of the country is Republic of Argentina....
Argentina Argentina is South America's second largest country; its 2.78 million square kilometers (1.07 million square miles) extend almost 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) from its subtropical north to its sub-Antarctic south. It encompasses...
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina, Nación Argentina (Argentine Nation) for many legal purposes), is a South American country, second in size on the continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina...
ERICSSON, a Swedish telecommunications equipment maker, landed two contracts worth $400 million to supply new national wireless networks for two operators, Telecom and Telefonica. Currently, only 2.5 million Argentines--about 8% of the population--have/own a mobile telephone. ARGENTINA and the United States signed an...
Gil, Eduardo. (argentina). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Cuarto 14, 2002. no pag. Hoy más que nunca Argentina es una reflexión que incluye los mas variados procedimientos -intelectuales, estéticos, concretos-, tanto apasionados como profundamente desapasionados. Argentina es hoy aquello sobre Io que se debate-terreno y...
Area: 2,780,403 sq km (1,073,520 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 38,971,000Capital: Buenos Aires Head of state: President Néstor Kirchner In 2006 Pres. Néstor Kirchner continued to consolidate his hold on power in Argentina , with his reelection to a second four-year term a nearly foregone conclusion...
Argentina on Monday marked the 25th anniversary of its failed attempt to regain the Falkland Islands, reasserting its claim to the South Atlantic archipelago."Neither war nor the passage of time changes reality: The Malvinas are Argentine," said Vice President Daniel Scioli, using the islands' Argentine...
