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Facundo Suárez Lastra
Facundo Ernesto Suárez Lastra (born 24 February 1954) is the Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. Suárez Lastra has held a number of important positions throughout his career; most notably, he was ''intendente'' (mayor) of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1989, during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. From 2017 to 2021, he was a National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital. In Buenos Aires, Suárez Lastra has also served as a member of the City Legislature, as Secretary of Justice and Security, during the mayorship of Aníbal Ibarra, and as Secretary of Government, during the mayorship of Julio César Saguier. Early life and education Suárez Lastra was born on 24 February 1954 in Mendoza, in a prominent political family. His father was Facundo Suárez, a UCR politician, who was Secretary of Intelligence during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín and president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales during the presidency of Arturo Illia. Suárez Lastra moved to Buenos ...
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Argentine Chamber Of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies (), officially the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress (). It is made up of 257 national deputies who are elected in multi-member constituencies corresponding with the territories of the 23 provinces of Argentina (plus the Federal Capital) by party list proportional representation. Elections to the Chamber are held every two years, so that half of its members are up in each election, making it a rare example of staggered elections used in a lower house. The Constitution of Argentina lays out certain attributions that are unique to the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber holds exclusive rights to levy taxes; to draft troops; and to accuse the president, cabinet ministers, and members of the Supreme Court before the Senate. Additionally, the Chamber of Deputies receives for consideration bills presented by popular initiative. The Chamber of Deputies is presided over by the presi ...
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Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales
YPF S.A. (, formerly ; English: "Fiscal Oilfields") is a vertically integrated, majority state-owned Argentine energy company, engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, and the transportation, refining, and marketing of gas and petroleum products. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, YPF was ranked as the 1360th largest public company in the world. Founded in 1922 under President Hipólito Yrigoyen's administration, YPF was the first oil company established as a state enterprise outside of the Soviet Union, and the first state oil company to become vertically integrated. YPF's first director was Enrique Mosconi, who took up his charge in 1922, remaining there until 1930. During his run on the company, Mosconi advocated economic independence and starting in 1928, nationalization of oil supplies; the latter, however, was never achieved due to a 1930 military coup against Yrigoyen backed by, among others, foreign oil interests. YPF was privatized under president Carlos ...
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CNN En Español
Cable News Network en Español (CNN en Español, stylized as CN͠N) is a Pan-American Spanish-language news channel, owned by CNN Worldwide, a news division for Warner Bros. Discovery. It was launched on pay television, on March 17, 1997. History CNN en Español before 1997 In 1988, CNN began producing news in Spanish with ''Noticiero CNN'', aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States and Latin America. In 1992, CNN International started the ''Noticiero CNN Internacional'', the first in Spanish on that channel. Other programs in Spanish were ''Las Noticias'' and ''Noticias México'', all of them presented by the Colombian Patricia Janiot and the Uruguayan Jorge Gestoso, and with the direction of Rolando Santos. The following year, CNN en Español Radio was launched. Launch (1997) On March 17, 1997, CNN en Español began broadcasting 24 hours a day. In addition, the chain's production centers begin to operate in Buenos Aires and Havana. The correspondent in ...
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Voluntary Interruption Of Pregnancy Bill (Argentina)
The Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law (; IVE) was approved by the National Congress of Argentina, National Congress of Argentina in 2020, Abortion law, legalizing abortion in Argentina. The first draft of the bill was created in 2006 by the :es:Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito, National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion (''Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito''), which sought to have Congress consider it in seven different occasions, to no avail. In 2018, the bill was introduced into the legislative agenda, with the approval of then-Republican Proposal, PRO president Mauricio Macri, who was personally against it. It was approved by the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Deputies by a 129 to 125 margin on 13 June 2018, but failed to pass the Argentine Senate, Senate on 8 August 2018 by a 38 to 31 margin. In 2020, the bill was sent to Congress once again (with some modifications) by ...
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Abortion In Argentina
Abortion is the early termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Abortions that occur without intervention are known as miscarriages or "spontaneous abortions", and occur in roughly 30–40% of all pregnancies. Deliberate actions to end a pregnancy are called induced abortion, or less frequently "induced miscarriage". The unmodified word ''abortion'' generally refers to induced abortion. Common reasons for having an abortion are birth-timing and limiting family size. Other reasons include maternal health, an inability to afford a child, domestic violence, lack of support, feelings of being too young, wishing to complete an education or advance a career, or not being able or willing to raise a child conceived as a result of rape or incest. When done legally in industrialized societies, induced abortion is one of the safest procedures in medicine. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone (aka RU-486) in ...
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Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) served as the 50th president of Argentina for ten years, from 1989 to 1999. He identified as Peronism, Peronist, serving as President of the Justicialist Party for 13 years (from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2001 to 2003), and his political approach became known as Menemism. Born in Anillaco, La Rioja Province, Argentina, La Rioja, to a Syrian Argentines, Syrian family, Menem was raised as a Muslim,"Carlos Menem"
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but later converted to Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism to pursue a political career. Menem became a Peronist during a visit to Buenos Aires. He was elected governor of La Rioja in 1973, deposed and detained following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and re-elected in 1983. He defeated the Buenos Aires governor Antonio Cafiero in ...
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La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal ''Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina. Its motto is: "''La Nación'' will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behind ''Clarín'', and the third in digital format, behind ''Infobae'' and ''Clarín''. In addition, it has an application for Android (operating system), Android and iOS phones. The newspaper's printing plant is in the City of Buenos Aires and its newsroom is in Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Vicente López, Province of Buenos Aires. The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper's TV channel, La Nación +, LN+. Overview The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication ''Nación Argentina''), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was Jo ...
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Premetro (Buenos Aires)
The Premetro is a light rail line that runs along the outskirts of Buenos Aires, connecting with the Buenos Aires Underground Line E (Buenos Aires Metro), line E, at Plaza de los Virreyes station and then to General Savio, with a short branch to Centro Cívico. It opened in 1987 and is operated by Metrovías. Originally, the Premetro was to include many more lines, but shortly after the Railway privatisation in Argentina, privatisation of the railways the projects were postponed and never materialised and only "Premetro E2" was built.Premetro a Puente de la Noria, en el olvido por el Metrobus del Sur
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Line D (Buenos Aires Underground)
Line D of the Buenos Aires Underground runs from Catedral (Buenos Aires Underground), Catedral to Congreso de Tucumán (Buenos Aires Underground), Congreso de Tucumán. The line opened on 3 June 1937 and has been expanded to the north several times. The line is currently 11 km long and has 16 stations, while running approximately parallel to the city's coastline. History Line D was the second line to be built by the Compañía Hispano Argentina de Obras Públicas y Finanzas (CHADOPyF, Hispanic-Argentine Company for Public Works and Finances), following the construction of Line C (Buenos Aires Underground), Line C in 1934. Construction began in 1935 and the first part of the line was inaugurated in 1937 and ran 1.7 km from Catedral (Buenos Aires Underground), Catedral (still the current terminus) to Tribunales (Buenos Aires Underground), Tribunales. Three years later, the section which brought the line to Plaza Italia (Buenos Aires Underground), Plaza Italia in Palermo ...
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Buenos Aires Underground
The Buenos Aires Underground (), locally known as Subte (), is a rapid transit system that serves the area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first section of this network (Plaza de Mayo–Plaza Miserere) opened in 1913, making it the List of metro systems#List, 13th earliest subway network in the world and the first underground railway in Latin America, the Southern Hemisphere, and the hispanophone, Spanish-speaking world, with the Madrid Metro opening nearly six years later, in 1919. As of 2024, Buenos Aires is the only Argentine city with a metro system. Currently, the underground network's six lines—A, B, C, D, E, and H—comprise of routes that serve 90 stations. The network is complemented by the Premetro (Buenos Aires), Premetro line, with 18 more stations in total. Traffic on subterranean lines moves on the left because Argentina drove on the left at the time the system opened. Over a million passengers use the network, which also provides connections with th ...
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El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and '' ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ...
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