Tag: Argentina

Yamila Fraiman, below, and Alejandro Torrado, center, computer engineering students, scan the bar code of a liter of milk in a supermarket during a demonstration of their App in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Alejandro and Yamila created a system in which customers can use their personal cell phones to scan the supermarket products to know if they are those under price controls by the national government. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentines become citizen-cops with smartphone app

Paul Byrne · February 7, 2014 5:07 am

Beltway Confidential

State Department: You won’t know if Obama’s campaign bundler is a qualified ambassador until he’s in the job

Joel Gehrke · February 7, 2014 5:00 am

An image of U.S. director Woody Allen is projected on a wall at an art exhibit titled "Queremos tanto a Woody," or "We so love Woody" by Argentine artist Hugo Echarri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The exhibit in honor of Allen was inaugurated just days after the artist faced renewed accusations that he molested Dylan Farrow, his then-7-year-old adopted daughter in 1992. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentine art exhibit celebrates Woody Allen

Debora Rey · February 7, 2014 12:06 am

Sen. Marco Rubio implied that Argentina is too important a country to be entrusted to a campaign donor rather than a professional diplomat. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Beltway Confidential

Obama bundler nominated as ambassador to Argentina has never been to the country

Joel Gehrke · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Smoke rises from the Iron Mountain warehouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Nine first-responders were killed in the fire that destroyed an archive of bank documents, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

9 die in fire destroying Argentine bank archives

Washington Examiner · February 5, 2014 7:14 pm

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez arrives for the opening ceremony of the CELAC Summit in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean are in Cuba to talk about poverty and inequality at a summit of a regional bloc formed as a force for integration and a counterbalance to the U.S. (AP Photo/Adalberto Roque, Pool)

Argentina president treated for hip pain

Washington Examiner · January 30, 2014 4:29 pm

Travelling leftward to Dilma Rousseff, Brazil has built a huge current-account deficit while pulling back on free trade. (AP/ Ismael Francisco)

A left turn in emerging markets endangers investment paradigm

Lawrence Kudlow · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2005 file photo, Former Argentine President Carlos Menem attends his swearing-in ceremony as senator for La Rioja province at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Menem was sentenced Thursday, June 13, 2013, to 7 years in prison for smuggling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia in violation of international embargoes in the 1990s. The court also banned Menem from holding elective office, and asked the Senate to vote to remove the immunity he has enjoyed for years as senator. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

7 years in prison for Argentine ex-leader Menem

Washington Examiner · June 13, 2013 4:00 am

Firefighters work to rescue trapped passengers from a commuter train on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, June 13, 2013. A two-level train slammed into another that had stopped between stations during the morning commute Thursday. Firefighters and police are pulling passengers from the wreckage. Train operator spokesman Pablo Gunning says there are "various fatalities" though has not specified how many. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentine train wreck kills 3, injures hundreds

Washington Examiner · June 13, 2013 4:00 am

Stand with the Falklands

Philip Terzian · March 25, 2013 4:00 am

TWS Podcast: Stand with the Falklands

TWS Podcast · March 20, 2013 6:53 pm

Stand with Britain on the Falklands

Jaime Daremblum · March 18, 2013 12:50 pm