Having been close to La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli ( a Third World Priest opposed by much of Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church ), he was imprisoned by the military junta in Formosa Province until 1981, reportedly tortured in the process.

Having claimed over 800 lives, violence between Trotskyite and Fascist extremists had abated somewhat since López Rega's July exile ; the Montoneros, however, began a series of audacious attacks on military installations, including August dynamiting of a nearly finished Navy destroyer near the port of La Plata and the Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack on a military base in Formosa Province on October 5.

Formosa Province () is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region.

Formosa had less than 20, 000 inhabitants in 1914 ; but in 1955, when it acquired the status of Province by decree of President Juan Domingo Perón, it had already more than 150, 000.

Category: Populated places in Formosa Province

The MID maintained a considerable following in a number of the less developed Argentine provinces, where voters had fond memories of the Frondizi administration's development projects, and helped elect allies within the Justicialist Party ( Peronists ), in Formosa and Misiones Provinces, as well as Mayoral candidate Néstor Kirchner in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province ; Kirchner went on become governor and, in 2003, President of Argentina.

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* Formosa Province: 5 deputies

Category: Geography of Formosa Province

Category: Geography of Formosa Province

Hydroelectric dam on the Río Negro ( Chaco ) | Río Negro, near Resistencia, Chaco ( Argentina ); the torrential rains that follow the region's long dry season make flood-control works critical. Toba ( tribe ) | Toba family, Formosa Province, Argentina, 1892. A jaguar at rest in the Formosa Province Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

* Formosa Province, Argentina

Category: People from Formosa Province

The only species in Chacodelphys, C. formosa, was known until 2004 from only one specimen collected in 1920 in the Chaco of Formosa Province, Argentina.

Category: Geography of Formosa Province

Estanislao Del Campo is also the name of a small cotton-producing town in Formosa Province, Argentina which lies about 135 km from the city of Formosa.

** Formosa, Argentina, the capital of its namesake province

* Diocese of Formosa, Argentina, Roman Catholic Diocese in Argentina

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In South America it occurs east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina ( in the provinces of Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, Formosa, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán ).

of Formosa in Argentina.

A jabirú a moment before flying on " Laguna Oca ", Formosa, Argentina.

It serves such important cities as Asunción and Concepción in Paraguay and Formosa in Argentina.

The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.

The Congress agreed to his request in 1955 for the Formosa Resolution, which enabled him to prevent Chinese communist aggression against Chinese nationalists and established U. S. policy of defending Taiwan.

He requested and secured from Congress their " Formosa Resolution " which gave Eisenhower the unprecedented power in advance to use military force at any level of his choosing in defense of Formoso and the Pescadores.

There are many proposals for a future flag of a dejure independent Taiwan Republic which also depict the shape or map of the island of Taiwan ( Formosa ).

Formosa could also serve as a base for an invasion of mainland China, which MacArthur felt was unnecessary.

The three main clauses of the Cairo Declaration are that " Japan be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914 ", " all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China ", and that " in due course Korea shall become free and independent ".

The Japanese suspected that they might meet resistance when they attempted to occupy Taiwan, and their invasion of Taiwan, hastily launched in late May 1895 in response to the proclamation of the Republic of Formosa, was preceded by an attack on Qing forces on Penghu in March 1895, in which the Japanese defeated the Chinese garrison of the islands and occupied Makung.

Building upon this growing interest in his life, in 1704 Psalmanazar published a book entitled An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan which purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy, but which was in fact a complete invention on Psalmanazar's part.

In the last years of his life, Psalmanazar wrote the book upon which much of contemporary knowledge of him rests: Memoirs of ** **, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar ; a Reputed Native of Formosa.

It coincidentally is the antipode to Taiwan, which was formerly known as " Formosa ".

The name " Quelpart " apparently came from the first European ship to spot the island, the Dutch " Quelpaert ", which sighted it after being blown off course on its way to the Dutch trading base in Nagasaki, Japan, from Taiwan ( then the Dutch colony of Formosa ).

Almost all the coastal towns and villages of the Algarve were heavily damaged, except Faro, which was protected by the sandy banks of Ria Formosa.

The 5th Brigade suffered a major blow at the hands of Montoneros, when over one-hundred — perhaps several hundred -- Montoneros guerrillas and milicianos where involved in the most elaborate operation in the so-called " Dirty War ", which involved the hijacking of a civilian airliner, taking over the provincial airport, attacking the 29th Infantry Regiment's barracks at Formosa province and capturing its cache of arms, and finally escaping by air.

Almost all the coastal towns and villages of the Algarve were heavily damaged, except Faro, which was protected by the sandy banks of Ria Formosa lagoon.

Laurent Sagart, on the other hand, holds that Tai – Kadai is a branch of Austronesian which migrated back to the mainland from northeastern Formosa ( i. e. Taiwan ) long after Formosa was settled, but probably before the expansion of Malayo-Polynesian out of Formosa.

However, a photo-reconnaissance mission was authorized over Formosa which was requested either by Brereton or Sutherland.

Later, about 1100 on 8 December a combat strike was approved by FEAF against Formosa, to take place that day, and the B-17s which were sent to Del Monte Field were recalled to Clark to stage for the strike.

After consulting with Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell Sr., a medical doctor serving as a Presbyterian Church of England missionary to southern Formosa ( 1865 ), Mackay arrived at Tamsui, northern Formosa in 1872, which remained his home until his death in 1901.

In 2009, Van Der Beek won Best Actor at the 8th Annual San Diego Film Festival for his portrayal of FBI agent Jake Kelly working in the Taiwan in the political thriller Formosa Betrayed, which also won Best Picture.

In the 1960s locally produced ponlai rice (" Formosa rice " 蓬萊米 Pénglái mǐ ) was added to the fermentation process, resulting in the distinctive local flavour for which the beer is known today.