Argentina and Brazil are to jointly build nuclear-powered submarines by pooling their expertise in atomic technology, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said in an announcement published Sunday. The project will also involve France, which is to contribute to the non-nuclear side of building the vessels, he told the Argentine newspaper Clarin. The plans were revealed [...]

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Argentina and Brazil have agreed to build a joint nuclear reactor to address looming energy shortages.
The agreement came as part of a plan by South America’s two biggest economies to extend defence and energy projects.
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“I have no doubt that the most senior Iranian leadership, with the help of Hezbollah, is responsible for the attacks in Buenos Aires against AMIA [the community center in 1994] and the Israeli Embassy [in 1992],” Nisman said Tuesday night at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
While investigating the two attacks, [...]

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WASHINGTON—While the world was concentrating on Iran’s nuclear drama, some Latin American nations were going nuclear too. Argentina and Brazil have relaunched their nuclear energy programs big time and in Chile, despite President Michelle Bachelet’s initial skepticism, officials are beginning to consider that option.
In the case of Brazil and Argentina, it’s all about an old [...]

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Margaret Thatcher’s decision to dispatch a task force to retake the Falkland Islands within a day of the invasion was an extraordinary display of leadership that would be almost unthinkable today. The armada of over 110 ships and 28,000 men began to set sail for the South Atlantic–8,000 miles away–just three days after the Argentineans [...]

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Buenos Aires, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Argentina and China signed a memorandum of military cooperation, the first of its kind between these two countries, informed the Defense Ministry.
The agreement was signed by the Argentine minister, Nilda Garre and her Chinese counterpart, Colonel General Cao Gangeguan who is on a visit to Buenos Aires as part [...]

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BUENOS AIRES — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez launched another verbal assault on President Bush last night as he led about 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the US leader a “political cadaver” and blasting his policies as “imperialist.”
“Gringo go Home!” Chávez shouted to raucous applause at a crowded soccer stadium in the Argentine capital. [...]

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Anti-American populism is in vogue again in Latin America. And we may have ourselves to blame.
In Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, politicians rail against the United States as an arrogant, greedy, uncaring bully.
What has the United States done to provoke this? The answer: It’s not so much what we’ve done, but what we [...]

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MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Argentina is interested in Russian armaments, Russia’s defense minister said Friday.
“The Argentine side has handed over to us a specific list of military equipment it is interested in,” Sergei Ivanov, who is also a deputy prime minister, said following a meeting with his Argentine counterpart. “We have created a [...]

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2006 Small Business Economic Summit to address Argentina’s dangerous embrace of Venezuelan Petro-dollars, influence
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega and former National Security Council Staff and Clinton Administration Ambassador to the United Nations Nancy Soderberg will explore the alarming alliance of Venezuela’s Chavez and Argentina’s Kirchner and [...]

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“Coming events cast their shadows forwards”
Today, our newsletter El Traductor Grafico sets out certain aspects of this conflict which will enable us to better understand its complex roots; its possible development in the weeks and months to come; and its growing and potentially very dangerous impact on Argentina and South America. This [...]

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By Kelly Hearn
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 9, 2006
BUENOS AIRES — Russia is negotiating arms sales to Argentina less than two weeks after angering Washington with a $3 billion deal to sell jets and helicopters to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Russian Ambassador Yuri Korchagin met with Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre on Aug. 2 [...]

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