Argentina: many are suspected in AMIA cover-up
Text It's not clear that anyone in Argentina's political class really wants the AMIA case solved. Israel and the US don't look much better. And suspect suicides are nothing new in Argentina.While the...
View ArticleArgentina: Fernández flips on prosecutor's 'suicide'
Text President Cristina Fernández changed her tune on the supposed "suicide" of the prosecutor investigating a massive anti-Semitic bombing—found dead just before he was to testify.Argentine federal...
View ArticleArgentina and Iran in oil-for-terror deal?
Text Did Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner strike a secret deal with Tehran to cover up Iran's role in a terror attack in exchange for guarantees of oil imports?Organizers are...
View ArticleArgentina: golpe or auto-golpe?
Text As charges were dropped against President Cristina Fernández, the intelligence service dissolved and cabinet purged, opposition lawmakers said a "self-coup" is in the works.A federal judge in...
View ArticleArgentina: prosecutor's death classified homicide
Text A court in Buenos Aires found that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was the victim of murder, allowing a long-stalled investigation of his death to go forward.argentina.jpg.gifArgentine lawyer...
View ArticleArgentine judge demands Iraq arrest Iran diplomat
Text An Argentine federal judge called upon authorities in Iraq to arrest Iranian diplomat Ali Akbar Velayati, accused intellectual author of the 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires' Jewish...
View ArticleTrump: drug war general to Homeland Security
Text Gen. John Kelly, Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary, is ex-chief of the Pentagon's Southern Command who clashed with Obama over his hardline...
View ArticleTrump sanctions Venezuela veep as 'kingpin'
Text The Trump administration seriously turned up the heat on Venezuela, slapping sanctions on the country's vice president Tareck Zaidan El Aissami as a drug "kingpin."venezuela.gifThe Trump...
View ArticleVenezuela drops petro-dollar: how meaningful?
Text Venezuela, under growing pressure from US sanctions, has told oil traders that it is dropping petro-dollars for petro-euros and petro-yuans. Despite the instinct to cheer the decline of US world...
View ArticleArgentina: judge orders arrest of former president
Text An Argentine judge ordered the arrest of current senator and former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for her alleged involvement in a cover-up of Iran's participation in a 1994 bombing of...
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