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Members of the Human Rights organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora, and other demonstrators, hold portraits of people who went missing in the 1976-1983 military dictatorship during a gathering to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the coup of 1976, at Plaza de Mayo square in Buenos Aires on March 24, 2013 / Alejandro Pagni, AFP/Getty ... (more)

In this Dec. 22, 2010 file photo, former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla attends the last day of his trial in Cordoba, Argentina.

Argentinian and Iranian representatives had already inked a memorandum of understanding on the "truth commission" to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center will showcase the work of Argentinian filmmaker Matas Pieiro during the upcoming Latinbeat film festival ( returns to the Film Society after debuting at this year's New Directors/New Films and will be released in the US through Cinema Guild.

Rodrigo Gimenez is not your average Santa Barbara chef. Technically speaking, he's not a chef at all, but a seasoned architect from Mendoza, Argentina, with a master's degree in historic-building restoration and a lifelong obsession with the culinary world, a man who slowly discovered that he preferred working in kitchens to designing them.

Remains of ex Ditator Jorge Rafael Videla are expected to be buried in Mercedes city, home town of the former de facto ruler during Argentina's darkest period.

After agreeing to do so, two MLAs have met with five representatives of a human rights group from Chaco, Argentina in order to listen to their views on a number of issues resulting from the 1982 war.

The rare, cool spring weather delayed my thirst for the lightest of the whites and gave me a chance to explore some heftier options.

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 people considered to be subversives, died in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity.

TIA SHARP's devastated dad has told of the heartbreak of knowing he will never walk his 'special little girl' down the aisle.

While Kirchner has ruled out any devaluation of the Argentine peso while she's president and dismissed as election-year politics a growing scandal over money laundering, her popularity in the polls has dropped dramatically.

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.

Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say a car has driven into a crowd at a parade.

Jen and Mike were both born and raised in San Francisco, and though they grew up in different cultures, they were united at a classic San Franciscan wedding.

Golden Arrow Resources Corporation , "Golden Arrow" or the "Company") announces that in adjusting the Company's strategy under current market conditions, and for the next phase of the development and advancement of the Chinchillas Silver Project, the Company has enacted a program to review and restructure the management team.

Here my first photo at Buenos Aires. The Our Lady of Pilar Basilica located at Recolleta neighborhood.

In this June 1978 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla talks to journalists at the Buenos Aires Government Palace, in Argentina.

In this 2008 photo, the new Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left, travels on public transport in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In " What Do You Desire ?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search for romantic love, and ponders the implications of a sexual culture where no desire is considered off-limits so long as all participants give their ... (more)

"I want to immerse myself in a new culture as much as possible," said Morgan Brown, recipient of a $500 Marta Umanzor Study Abroad Scholarship from Saint Michael's College.