political history of the nineteenth-century Latin America, and echoes of government corruption across centuries. The move is an Argentinian film directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg. The movie does mention a bit of the history going on during the time in Buenos Aires. Camila is based on a true story, that not only depicts a captivating love story, but makes a powerful statement about Latin America's political history, past and present. After Argentina formally declared its independence from Spain in 1816, partisan
Jews were infrequent in Argentina before World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, between 1918 and 1930, anti-revolutionary feelings developed into full-blown anti-Semitism against the Rusos. From January 7-13, 1919, a general strike in Buenos Aires led to a pogrom against the Jews. Many were beaten and had their property burned and looted.i Despite anti-Semitic actions against the Jews and increasing xenophobia, Jews became involved in most sectors of Argentine society. Still they were
With a mainland area of 1,073,500 sq mi, Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina is subdivided into 23 provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. Argentina is known for their National Soccer Team and beautiful landforms such as the Iguazu Falls. One of the most attractive countries in South America, Argentina is a very popular tourist destination. Argentina is a very interesting because of the land, the weather, the animals and the people. The Chaco is a rural farming
In 1816 the United Provinces of Rio Plata declared their independence from Spain. After Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay went their separate ways the area that remained became Argentina (Spain, n.d.). The capital of Argentina is Buenos Aires, with a population of approximatively forty-one to forty-five thousand as of 2013. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been in office since 2007. The official language of Argentina is Spanish. Argentina is a massive South American nation with terrain
It is also divided into 23 provinces. The climate is mostly temperate, arid in southeast; sub-arctic in southwest. The climate varies. They have fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, and iron ore. They have permanent crops. Animals also live on these lands. Argentina
Argentina Argentina is one country of America, located in South America, bordered by Chile to the west and south, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north and Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast. Argentina has 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, its capital and largest city. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations. Argentina’s estimate population is of 42,192,500 people and the total area is of 2,780,400 km2. The north
Current Market Snapshot -Argentina - Players Five largest oil companies in Argentina are YPF, PAE, Pluspetrol, Sinopec and Petrobras Energía. Chevron is now the sixth-largest producer of oil in the country, with concessions in the Neuquén Basin. The two major players are YPF, a state-owned company with approximately half of crude oil production, and PAE, a private company with approximately 19% of total oil production in Argentina. PAE currently operates one of Argentina’s largest hydrocarbon
Eva “Evita” Perón Eva Perón was, and still is, considered one of the most important and influential political figures in South American history. Eva Perón was born Maria Eva Duarte on May 7th, 1919 in Los Toldos, a Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The youngest of her family, Eva had four siblings that preceded her: Blanca, Elisa, Erminda and Juan. Eva’s father, Juan Duarte kept her mother, Juana, as a mistress, keeping an upper middle-class family in Chivilcoy with his wife, Adela d’Huart. Juan
power in three levels: executive, legislative, judiciary. Each of these three levels is presented in the twenty three provinces and in the federal capital, the city of Buenos Aires. On the other words, each province establishes its own constitution, and has its own legislative and judiciary power. However, these three levels are also nationally presented, making all of the provinces to be subordinate to the federal government. The chief of the executive power is the president. He is responsible for
perform an analysis of the activities offered by tour operators, on the one hand, in Antarctica and, on the other hand, in Ushuaia as a gateway, and to analyze how the destination can be positioned as complementary destination of Antarctica. The province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and Southern Atlantic Islands is situated in the southern tip of South America in Argentina, and comprises three different territorial areas: the eastern sector of the large island of Tierra del Fuego and its adjacent