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 2008
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| Feb.22 |
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Latin America nuclear pact signed
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| Mar.9 |
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Train-bus collision kills 18
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| Mar.25 |
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Farmers strike leaves shelves bare A strike by farmers, who are protesting an increase in export taxes for their products, continued for a 13th day with no solution in sight
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| Mar.28 |
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Farmers move to end strike
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| Mar.31 |
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Striking farmers resume blockades Farmers seething at export taxes on their crops resumed blockades of rural highways after talks failed to end a 19-day-old strike
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| Apr.2 |
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Farmers suspend strike, open roads
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| Apr.4 |
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Dirty War adoption couple jailed
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| Apr.11 |
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Argentina braced for torch relay The Olympic torch has been hidden in a secret location ahead, as authorities hope protests will not mar the parade
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Peaceful Olympic torch run
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| Apr.18 |
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Smoke chokes Buenos Aires  300 brush fires set deliberately consumed thousands of acres in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos
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| Apr.25 |
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Economy minister steps down Martin Lousteau has resigned in the wake of a crippling farmers' strike that emptied store shelves and cut exports
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| May.7 |
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Farmers resume strike Farmers decided to resume a strike that cut exports, blocked roads and emptied store shelves last month. The farmers would go on strike for 8...
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| May.28 |
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Farmers resume strike against export tax The farm groups went on strike for the third time in nearly three months to protest high export taxes, 44 percents
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| May.31 |
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Farmers say no to tax changes Farmers moved quickly to reject President de Kirchner's tax concessions made a day earlier
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| Jun.4 |
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Traffic snarls latest bump in farm crisis Map of Cordoba Argentina| Disagreements between the government and farmers over export taxes flared up as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic | |
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| Jun.10 |
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Controversial tax to fund social programs President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced plans to fund a public works program with revenues from a agrarian export tax
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| Jun.15 |
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Farmers renew protests| Thousands of farmers protesting grain export tax increases returned to road blockades nationwide, angry over a police crackdown | |
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| Jun.17 |
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Fernandez defends grain export tax President Cristina Fernandez defended an increase in export taxes on grains that has riled many farmers
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| Jul.1 |
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Mercosur condemns EU migrant law South American heads of state have ended a regional summit with a fierce attack on EU immigration policies
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| Jul.8 |
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Nazi hunters search for 'Dr. Death' The Simon Wiesenthal Center has strong evidence that a former SS member Aribert Heim is in southern Chile or Argentina
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| Jul.15 |
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Rallies divide Buenos Aires before tax vote Tens of thousands of farmers and government supporters are staging dueling protests ahead of a Senate vote on controversial farm taxes
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| Jul.17 |
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Nazi hunter: Closing in on 'Dr. Death' Efraim Zuroff made progress in finding 94-year-old Aribert Heim, former concentration camp physician, accused of torturing Jewish prisoners
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| Jul.18 |
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President drops farm tax after protests| Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dropping an agricultural export tax that has provoked months of protests from farmers | |
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| Aug.19 |
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 Argentina rout 9-man Brazil to reach final Aguero scored twice and set up a third as holders reached the Olympic football final with a 3-0 win over big rivals who ended the match with...
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| Aug.22 |
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Argentina - second straight soccer gold Angel di Maria has fired Argentina to its second Olympic title in a row in a 1-0 victory over Nigeria
| He collected a through ball from Lionel Messi in the 58th minute
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| Aug.28 |
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Former generals sentenced to life Antonio Bussi and Luciano Menendez accused of murdering a senator during military dictatorship were sentenced to life in prison
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| Sep.3 |
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Argentina endorses $3B Andes tunnel President Fernandez is promising to help build a 23-kilometer tunnel through the Andes into Chile
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| Sep. 21 |
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 Argentina beat Russia in Davis Coup In-form teenager Juan Martin del Potro won the deciding rubber as he beat Igor Andreev 6-4 6-2 6-1
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| Sep. 26 |
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Argentina grapples with fierce drought Map of Santa Fe Argentina| This year fewer than 200 millimeters of rain have fallen, less than a third of the 600 millimeters that usually have fallen by this time | |
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