Brazilian Army during the War against the Argentine Confederation, 1851-52.

Argentine Army

On 5 March 1975, a Montoneros bomb detonates in the underground parking at Plaza Colón of the Argentine Army High Command and a garbage truck driver, Alberto Blas García is killed and 28 others are wounded, including four colonels and 18 other ranks. On 3 June 1975, Montoneros guerrillas murdered Raul Amelong, manager of the Acindar steel firm in Rosario, in reprisal for alleged repression against striking employes.

That same month, a Montonero bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Argentine Army in Buenos Aires, injuring at least six soldiers.

On 13 February 1976, the Argentine Army scored a major success when the 14th Airborne Infantry Regiment ambushed the 65-strong Montoneros Jungle Company, in an action near the town of Cadillal in Tucumán province.

* February 20, 1827 – Battle of Ituzaingo ( Passo do Rosário ): A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets Argentine – Uruguayan troops in combat.

* February 20 – Battle of Ituzaingo ( Passo do Rosário ): A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets Argentine – Uruguayan troops in combat.

The 4th Parachute Brigade ( 4 Brigada Paracaidista ) is a unit of the Argentine Army specialised in airbone assault operations.

The Argentine Army, still maintains a prestigious unit known as the Horse Grenadiers Regiment ( Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo )-- actually a squadron-strength formation — which serves as the Presidential ceremonial escort and guard unit.

The Chilean Grenadiers ' uniforms are similar to the full Feldgrau uniforms of the Chilean Army, but adapted for the cavalry, and like their Argentine counterparts, carry lances but not cavalry sabers, which are reserved for officers and the mounted colors guard escort.

In 1822 during the Peruvian War of Independence, troops from both the Liberating Expedition of Peru ( Expedición Libertadora del Perú ) and the United Liberating Army of Peru ( Ejército Unido Libertador del Perú ) used a standard that was identical to the modern flag of Chile, except their flag had three stars in the canton, representing the three nations united by the cause of independence: the Argentine provinces, Chile and Peru.

More of a mystery at time was the extent of the Social Welfare Minister's involvement in the recently formed Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ( Triple A ), a paramilitary force that, between late 1973 and late 1974, had already carried out nearly 300 murders, including that of former President Arturo Frondizi's brother, Professor Silvio Frondizi, Congressman Rodolfo Ortega Peña, activist Father Carlos Mugica, Buenos Aires Province Assistant Police Chief Julio Troxler, former Córdoba Vice-Governor Atilio López, and former Chilean Army head Carlos Prats.

The ' Regimiento Húsares de Pueyrredón ' ( Pueyrredon Hussars Regiment ) currently serves as an armoured regiment ( the ' RCT No 10 Húsares de Pueyrredón ') in the 10th Tank Cavalry Regiment of the Argentine Army using its Revolutionary era uniforms in full regalia during formal parades.

Corporals in the Argentine military are considered suboficiales subalternos ( subaltern sub-officers / lower non-commissioned officers ), superior only to all ranks of Volunteers ( enlisted members of the Army and Air Force ) and Seamen ( enlisted members of the Navy ).

In the Argentine Army, there are two ranks of corporal, junior and senior: Cabo ( Corporal ) and Cabo Primero ( First Corporal ).

While the Argentine Navy has three Corporal ranks, from junior to senior: Cabo Segundo ( Corporal Second Class ), Cabo Primero ( Corporal First Class ) and Cabo Principal ( Principal Corporal ), which is equal to the Army rank of Sargento ( Sergeant ).

The rank is also used by the Argentine National Gendarmerie and the Argentine Federal Police, which use the rank in the same manner as the Army, as well as the Argentine Naval Prefecture.

In 1865, the Argentine musician Juan José Allende, in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Army, preseented to the National Congress a musical project for the lyrics by José Joaquín de Olmedo, but it was not well received.

A later report determined that only two kills could be attributed to Blowpipe: A British Harrier GR3 ( XZ972 ) attacked by Argentine Army special forces ( Commandos Company ), and an Argentine Aermacchi MB-339 ( 0766 ( 4-A-114 )) during the Battle of Goose Green.

* Argentine Army

The missile was developed as a replacement for the Blowpipe missile, which had proven largely ineffective in the Falklands War, with only two hits recorded out of more than 100 launches: a British Harrier GR3 ( XZ972 ) attacked by Argentine Army special forces ( Commandos Company ), and an Argentine Aermacchi MB-339 ( 0766 ( 4-A-114 )) during the Battle of Goose Green.

* 1976 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer

Private Daniel Tarnopolsky serving in the Argentine Marine Corps in 1976, also passed on valuable information to Walsh regarding the tortures and killings of left-wing guerrillas taking place in ESMA.

On 2 July 1976 the Montoneros detonated a powerful bomb in the Argentine Federal Police in Buenos Aires, killing 24 and injuring 66 people. On 10 July 1976, policemen surround and enter a printing house in the San Andrés suburb of Buenos Aires in an effort to free Vicecomodore Roberto Echegoyen from the Montoneros, but the alerted guerrillas shoot their hostage in the head.

The worst year of the insurgency, 1976, saw 156 Argentine servicemen and police killed.

On 1 September 1976, David Kraiselburd, the 2-year-old son of Argentine newspaper publisher Paul Kraiselburd, was kidnapped and killed.

* 1976 – Paulo César Pérez, Argentine footballer

* 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine / Mexican footballer

The South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited, though a permanently manned Argentine research station was located on Thule Island from 1976 to 1982 ( for details, see " History " section above ).

* 1976 – Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player

* 1976-Jorge Rafael Videla seizes control of Argentina in 1976 through a coup sponsored by the Argentine military, establishing himself as a dictator of a military junta government in the country.

* July 17 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop ( d. 1976 )

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

Emilio Massera, who was part of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla from 1976 to 1978, José López Rega, minister of Social Welfare in Perón's government and founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A "), and General Guillermo Suárez Mason were also members.

Several members of the Argentine military junta have been found to be P2 members, such as Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973, Emilio Massera, part of Jorge Videla's military junta from 1976 to 1978, and José López Rega, the infamous founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A ").

In 2007, an Argentine judge ordered the arrest of Isabel Perón over the forced disappearance of an activist in February 1976, on the grounds that the disappearance was authorized by her signing of decrees allowing Argentina's armed forces to take action against " subversives ".

Monthly inflation did slow from the ( then-record ) 35 % logged in July, but remained at 10-15 % monthly between September and January 1976 ( a level more familiar to the Argentine consumer ).

She was charged by the Argentine authorities with the disappearance of Héctor Aldo Fagetti Gallego on February 25, 1976, and her issuance of her October 6, 1975, decree calling the Armed Forces to " annihilate … subversive elements throughout the country ".

From 1976 onwards, the Chilean DINA and its Argentine counterpart, SIDE, were its front-line troops.

* Santiago Solari, ( born 1976 ), Argentine Soccer Player.

The first Argentine historians, such as Bartolomé Mitre, attributed the free trade to the The Representation of the Hacendados economic report by Mariano Moreno, but is currently considered the result of a general negotiation between Britain and Spain, as reflected in the Apodaca-Canning treaty of 1809.

In 1990, Captain Ruben Lianza of the Argentine Air Force, an amateur astronomer, provided a report to an astronomy publication that included aerial pictures of a set of odd teardrop-shaped depressions near the city of Río Cuarto, Córdoba in north-central Argentina.

In a report to the Argentine National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, which published its findings in 1984 entitled Nunca Más, Eduardo Arias recalls seeing Oesterheld between November 1977 and January 1978, in terrible physical condition and at the secret detention center El Vesubio, which they sardonically named " the Sheraton ".

Other results report approximately 240, 000 speakers, with 200, 000 in the Central Valley of Chile and 40, 000 in several Argentine provinces, where some 150, 000 people use the language regularly.

In the foreword of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons report on the Argentine Dirty War, Dalla Chiesa was cited as having rejected the use of torture in Italy in response to the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, the former prime minister killed by the Red Brigades in 1978.

* Kidnapped and Raised by a Argentine Military Family, a " Recovered Grandchild " Finds His Way Home-video report by Democracy Now!

Working with President Carter and the U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Patricia Derian, he marshalled the then-dormant Inter-American Commission on Human Rights into investigations inside repressive regimes like his own country's, the Argentine military junta ; after looking into allegations of widespread political murders and kidnappings in September 1979, the commission's 1980 report removed any doubts as to the state of freedoms in the country at the time, and helped lead to an improvement in the climate of civil liberties.

In 2000, an enormous supercolony of Argentine ants was found in Southern Europe ( report published in 2002 ).

After the fall of Perón's government in September 1955, opponents to Perón painted a value for the budget of the project in a wall of Richter's Laboratory No. 4 ( a photograph can be seen in Mariscotti's book, see references ) claiming that the total expenses were 62 million pesos ( the amount stated in Isnardi's report ), which at that time represented approximately $ 7 million, or about 140 times the amount allocated by the U. S. government soon after the Argentine announcement ( Project Matterhorn, under Lyman Spitzer ).

Lord Franks was often called upon by the government of the day to chair important inquiries, and he is best known for his report in the aftermath of the Falklands War which ultimately exonerated the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government from charges of having failed to heed warning signals of an Argentine invasion.

Two former Colonels in the Argentine army, from Centro de Militares Para la Democracia Argentina delivered a report based on their 1999 investigation.

In the June 2005 report by the Ministry of Economy, the total acknowledged debt of the Argentine state amounted to USD126. 466 billion, down by 63. 464 billion from the first semester as a result of the restructuring process ; of this, 46 % was denominated in dollars, 36 % in pesos, and 11 % in euros and other currencies.

( 2004 )-Green Left report on U. S. and Argentine government responses to the piqueteros