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Nicolás Dujovne
Nicolás Dujovne (; born May 18, 1967) is an Argentine economist and former Minister of the Treasury between 2017 and 2019 under the administration of Mauricio Macri. Biography The Dujovne family, of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, has been present in Argentina since the early 20th century. His great-grandfather, Isaac Dujovne, emigrated to Argentina in 1899 from Kurilovich, a village near the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire.The family settled in the Basavilbaso Colony, in the province of Entre Ríos,a town that welcomed many Jewish settlers as part of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) project, founded by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Among Isaac’s children, two stand out: the philosopher León Dujovne (great-uncle of Nicolás)and the engineer Israel Dujovne (his grandfather). Israel worked in construction and founded his own firm in Buenos Aires in 1930.Berardo Dujovne, son of Israel and father of Nicolás, is a prominent architect a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of The Treasury (Argentina)
The Ministry of Economy () of Argentina is the country's state treasury and a ministry of the national executive power that manages economic policy. The Ministry of Economy is one of the oldest ministries in the Argentine government, having existed continuously since the formation of the first Argentine executive in 1854, in the presidency of Justo José de Urquiza – albeit under the name of Ministry of the Treasury. The current minister responsible is Luis Caputo, who has served since 2023 in the cabinet of Javier Milei. Headquarters The Argentine Ministry of the Treasury has, since the building's 1939 inaugural, been based in a 14-story Rationalist office building designed by local architect Carlos Pibernat. The Economy Ministry building was built on a 0.57 ha (1.4 ac) Montserrat neighborhood lot facing the Casa Rosada presidential office building to the north, and the Defense Ministry (Libertador Building) to the easta government building also designed by Pibernat. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Colonisation Association
The Jewish Colonisation Association (JCA or ICA; ) was an organisation created on September 11, 1891, by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural settlements on lands purchased by the committee in North America (Canada and the United States), South America (Argentina and Brazil) and Ottoman Palestine. Today ICA is still active in Israel in supporting specific development projects under the name Jewish Charitable Association (ICA). History Argentina Zadoc Kahn presented the German Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch with the project of setting up a Jewish settlement in Argentina, before JCA was created in 1891. Theodor Herzl considered it expensive and unrealistic. In 1896, when Hirsch died, the association owned a thousand square kilometers of land in the country on which lived a thousand households, the “Jewish gauchos”. It focused on agricultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faculty Of Economic Sciences, University Of Buenos Aires
The Faculty of Economic Sciences (; FCE), also simply known as Económicas, is a faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. Established in 1913 as the Instituto de Altos Estudios Comerciales, it is now the largest faculty within UBA, with over 36,000 grad students. The Faculty of Economic Sciences has the highest rate of international postgraduate students at 30 percent, in line with its reputation as a "top business school with significant international influence." The faculty has its seat on a Neoclassical building on Avenida Córdoba, one of the main thoroughfares of Buenos Aires. The building was designed by Francisco Tamburini in 1908, and originally also housed the Faculty of Medicine. The building faces Plaza Bernardo Houssay, opposite of which is the new seat of the Faculty of Medicine, the Hospital de Clínicas, and a number of other UBA dependencies. History The Faculty of Economic Sciences traces its history to the Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atlético River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city's estuary, Río de la Plata. River's home stadium, Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires), Monumental, is the largest in South America. River had the highest average home attendance of any association football club in the world in 2023 with 84,567. With more than 350,000 members at the end of 2023, River is one of the List of sports clubs by membership, largest sports clubs by membership. River Plate is also considered one of the ''Big Five (Argentine football), Big Five'' of Football in Argentina, Argentine football, along with Club Atlético Independiente, Independiente, San Lorenzo de Almagro, San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors, and Racing Club de Avellaneda, Racing Club. Although a Multi-sports club, multi-sport club, River Plate is best known for its professional association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrano, Buenos Aires
Belgrano is a northern ''Barrios of Buenos Aires, barrio'' or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is made up of Middle class, middle and upper class people. Belgrano has three distinct areas: the main one that is made up of apartment buildings, Belgrano "R" which is a leafy suburb area with English architecture, and Buenos Aires' Barrio Chino (Buenos Aires), Chinatown. Location The barrio of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Palermo is to the southeast; Núñez, Buenos Aires, Núñez is to the northwest; Coghlan, Buenos Aires, Coghlan, Villa Urquiza, Villa Ortúzar and Colegiales are to the southwest. History Belgrano was named after Manuel Belgrano, a politician and military leader who created the national flag of Argentina. In 1820, at Belgrano's death, Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires' legislature introduced a law to name the next town to be founded after him. This happened in 1855, when the Buenos Aires government, fearful that relatives of Juan Manuel de Rosas would di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfil
''Perfil'' is an Argentine weekly tabloid based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and refounded in 2005. History In 1997, the Argentine publishing house Editorial Perfil announced plans to launch a "super tabloid" named ''Perfil''. It was first launched by Jorge Fontevecchia on 9 May 1998 as a daily publication, but poor sales forced its closure on 31 July of the same year. ''Perfil'' was relaunched on 11 September 2005 as a weekly tabloid, published on the day of highest sales; Sundays. The expectation was that after building a reader base they would be able to add a new edition on Saturdays and finally become a daily newspaper again. It is currently published on weekends and has an online edition which is updated every day. In addition, the Sunday edition includes the women's magazine ''Luz''. Features Like many European newspapers it includes a section called the "Reader's Ombudsman", with the responsibility of maintaining the newspaper's reputation. Abel González was the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Pericos
Los Pericos is an Argentine band formed in 1987. The band has enjoyed international success, especially throughout South America. In 2006, the band received some notable exposure for North American audiences when featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's '' No Reservations''. The band was also featured in the 2000 documentary, ''Botín de guerra'' (''Spoils of war''). History In 1986 a group of friends who used to get together to play music became Los Pericos, the first reggae rock band in Argentina. Their first record, ''El Ritual De La Banana'', was released in 1988 and was the best selling album of the year, obtaining triple platinum status for its 180 thousand units sold. One year later, they recorded ''King Kong'', produced by Herbert Vianna (leadman and songwriter of the Brazilian group Paralamas Do Sucesso). Immediately after, they released ''Maxi Anfitreu'', a vinyl disc. In 1990, Los Pericos launched their third studio album, ''Rab a Dab Stail'', and they went on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photography
Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication. A person who operates a camera to capture or take Photograph, photographs is called a photographer, while the captured image, also known as a photograph, is the result produced by the camera. Typically, a lens is used to focus (optics), focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed Exposure (photography), exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an Charge-coupled device, electrical charge at each pixel, which is Image processing, electro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caras (magazine)
''Caras'' (Spanish and Portuguese: ''Faces'') is a weekly celebrity and women's magazine published in Lisbon, Portugal. The magazine is also distributed in Brazil and Angola and published in Spanish language in Argentina and Uruguay. History and profile ''Caras'' was established in Argentina on 24 November 1992 by Editorial Perfil and launched in Portugal in 1995. The magazine was part of the Portuguese conglomerate Impresa Group, which also controlled the weekly newspaper '' Expresso'' and news magazine ''Visão''. In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazine. The publisher of the magazine, based in Lisbon, was Edimpresa-Editora Lda, a subsidiary of the Swiss publishing company Edipresse. ''Caras'' provides weekly news on the private lives of the public figures both from Portugal and from other countries and news about fashion, beauty, health, cuisine and decoration. The magazine has been distributed weekly in Angola since September 2005. In 2014 ''Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noticias (magazine)
(''News of the Week'') is a weekly newsmagazine published in Argentina, where it is known simply as (''News''). The magazine was founded by Jorge Fontevecchia in 1976 and published by him in a format similar to American publications such as ''Time'' or ''Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev P ...''. was known as (''The Week'') until 1989. The magazine is also known in Argentina for its loss of photojournalist José Luis Cabezas, who was murdered in 1997 on the orders of local shipping magnate Alfredo Yabrán. The magazines is part of Editorial Perfil. Former President Néstor Kirchner reportedly ordered government advertising withheld from the magazine, as well from other media critical of his government, and privileged supporting media instead. Editorial Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente López, Buenos Aires
Vicente López is a neighborhood in Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is a suburb in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It currently has about 24,078 inhabitants. It is bounded to the north by Olivos, Buenos Aires, Olivos, to the west by Florida Este, Buenos Aires, Florida, to the south by the city of Buenos Aires, and to the east by the Río de la Plata. External links * * Municipal websiteTwitter websiteFacebook website Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1905 Vicente López Partido 1905 establishments in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarín (Argentine Newspaper)
(, ) is the largest newspaper in Argentina and the second most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world. It was founded by Roberto Noble in 1945, published by the Clarín Group. For many years, its director was Ernestina Herrera de Noble, the founder's wife. is part of ''Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos'' ( Latin American Newspaper Association), an organization of fourteen leading newspapers in South America. History was created by Roberto Noble, former minister of the Buenos Aires Province, on 28 August 1945. It was one of the first Argentine newspapers published in tabloid format. It became the highest sold Argentine newspaper in 1965, and the highest sold Spanish-speaking newspaper in 1985. It was also the first Argentine newspaper to sell a magazine with the Sunday edition, since 1967. In 1969, the news were split into several supplements by topic. In 1976, high color printing was benefited by the creation of Artes Gráficas Rioplatense (AGR). For many yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
