However, soon after, on July 16, 2008, a presidentially sponsored bill to increase Argentina's export taxes on the basis of a sliding scale met with a legislative deadlock, and was ultimately defeated by the tie-breaking " against " vote of Vice President Julio Cobos.

Argentina's reputation as a mediator was damaged, however, when President Menem and some members of his cabinet were accused of approving the illegal sale of weapons to Ecuador and to Croatia.

President Cristina Kirchner with President Luiz Inacio da Silva | Luiz " Lula " da Silva of Brazil, Argentina's closest international partner.

Kirkpatrick had a " soft spot " for Argentina's President Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, and favored neutrality rather than the pro-British policy favored by the Secretary of State Alexander Haig.

Official reports from Argentina's anti-corruption office show that the fortune of the Argentine presidential couple, President Cristina Kirchner and her immediate predecessor and husband, Néstor Kirchner jumped 20. 6 % in 2009 totaling the equivalent of 14. 5 million US dollars, and soared 700 % since they first took office in 2003.

He formalized Argentina's support for LAFTA, the first Latin American free trade association, and for the Alliance for Progress, the landmark Western Hemisphere policy of the new U. S. President, John F. Kennedy.

* Alton Ochsner, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, President of the American Cancer Society, President of the American College of Surgeons, President of the International Society of Surgeons, Chairman of the Section on Surgery for the American Medical Association, and President of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation ; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967 ; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe ; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón.

Argentina's former President and Secretary General of UNASUR, Néstor Kirchner, died of heart failure on the morning of 27 October 2010 at the Jose Formenti hospital in El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province at the age of 60.

In 1991 he was appointed Argentine Ambassador to South Africa by President Carlos Menem, and in 1994 became Argentina's Minister for Sport.

President Fernando de la Rua's alliance lost seats in both chambers of Argentina's congress, leaving it in the minority.

With violence mounting across Argentina's major cities, President De la Rúa began to consider alternative measures to restore order.

Admiral César Augusto Guzzetti ( 1925 – 1988 ) was President Jorge Rafaél Videla's foreign minister, during Argentina's military government.

Moyano's rapproachment with the CGT was again strained in the year 2000, when President Fernando de la Rúa's plans to make Argentina's labour laws more flexible distanced him from the CGT leadership led by Rodolfo Daer, whose conciliatory stance led to a " Rebel " CGT led by Julio Piumato.

Nacionalistas took control of President Pedro Pablo Ramírez's junta in October 1943, changing Argentina's foreign policy by refusing to permit any further discussion with the United States on the issue of breaking Argentina's relations with the Axis powers.

He was appointed Argentina's Minister of Health in January 2002, days after the congressional appointment of interim President Eduardo Duhalde, and ratified in his post by President Néstor Kirchner upon taking office in May 2003.

President Mitre's 1862 establishment of Argentina's first institute of Agronomy helped lead to the development of a new economic activity in the region around Pergamino: intensive agriculture.

The game gained legitimacy, to the point that President Juan Perón declared pato to be Argentina's national game in 1953.

During the 1990s, marked by President Carlos Menem's policies of liberalization, Argentina's financial system saw a significant consolidation and strengthening, in large part through foreign investment.

These economists continued to shape the economies of their respective countries, and include people like Mexico's Francisco Gil Díaz, Fernando Sanchez Ugarte, Carlos Isoard y Viesca, Argentina's Adolfo Diz, Roque Benjamín Fernández, Carlos Alfredo Rodríguez, Fernando de Santibañez and Ricardo Lopez Murphy as well as others in Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Chile's football federation committee, led by Carlos Dittborn and Juan Pinto Durán, toured many countries convincing various football associations about the country's ability to organize the tournament in comparison to Argentina's superior sports infrastructure and prestige.

During his administration he cleaned up finances, created the Banco de la Nación Argentina, Argentina's national bank, and the prestigious high-school that carries his name: Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini ( a public school of noted academic level, part of the University of Buenos Aires ).

At the 1986 World Cup, Argentina's Carlos Bilardo unveiled a 3-5-2 formation ( or perhaps, more precisely, 3-5-1-1 ) as his playmaker, Diego Maradona, also operated a as second striker.

The Golden Boot was also won by Argentina's Carlos Tévez.

The Argentine Grand Prix was dropped from the 1982 calendar because of Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands and Carlos Reutemann's sudden retirement after the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix.

* The " Anti-war Treaty of Non-aggression and Conciliation ", commonly called the " Saavedra Lamas Pact " because it was written by Argentina's foreign minister, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, was signed in Rio de Janeiro by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Argentina's GDP ( below 1973 levels when Menem took office ) increased 35 % from 1990 to 1994 and fixed investment, by 150 %.

Critics of the policy of economic liberalization pursued during the Menem Presidency argued that Argentina's economic woes were caused by neoliberalism, which had been actively promoted by the U. S. government and the IMF under the Washington Consensus.

Menem was taken to court for his alleged association with these illegal acts in 2001, but was acquitted by Argentina's Supreme Court ; however, in October 2008 the case was re-opened, but Menem can currently avoid being detained by Argentine authorities until 2010 when his position as senator of La Rioja is finished.

Argentina's economy then gradually began a recovery from its abysmal state, spurred by exports that benefited from the heightened exchange rate, and by the declaration of default on most of its debt, which left the government with more money available to expand the economy.

Beginning in 1982, the region suffered unprecedented floods, which caused the crops to be ruined ; and in the 1990s, mechanical harvesters imported from Brazil ( at very low prices due to Argentina's low fixed exchange rate ) left many Toba without jobs.

Legend has it that Lamarque left Argentina because she had been blacklisted by Argentina's first lady Eva Perón.

The shipping company sued Argentina in federal court claiming that Argentina's actions violated the Alien Tort Statute 28 U. S. C.

Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, 504 U. S. 607 ( 1992 ), concerned a breach of contract claim asserted by bondholder ( two Panamanian corporations and a Swiss bank ) against the government ( Argentina ) that issued the bonds arising from Argentina's default on the bond payments.

According to his American biographer Thomas Davis, his diplomatic correspondence shaped Argentina's traditional distrust to U. S. policies, which Alvear felt included the desire to conquer, or at least dominate, all of Latin America.

Argentina's currency board established a fixed pegging of one-to-one parity between the peso and the U. S. dollar.

The Brazilian crisis of 1999 probably had the most severe effect, because Brazil is Argentina's largest trading partner, and the crisis was coupled with an appreciating U. S. dollar and a slump in the world prices of primary products.

Argentina's competitiveness in world markets was severely hit, given the peso's link to the appreciating U. S. dollar and weakening demand in its northern trading partner.

While Argentina was mostly trading with countries ( Europe and Brazil ) that did not have the U. S. dollar as their currency, the peso was fluctuating according to the U. S. dollar and not according to Argentina's actual economic position ( this is known as the " third currency phenomenon ").

Since most of country's debt was denominated in U. S. dollars, there would be a huge cost to breaking the peg, not to mention the long-term damage to Argentina's credibility in world capital markets.

The Fábrica Argentina de Aviones or FAdeA SA officially Fábrica Argentina de Aviones " Brigadier San Martín " S. A., is Argentina's main aircraft manufacturer.

The rest ( 2. 874 billion SDR or $ 4. 117 billion USD ) was transferred from Argentina's account in the IMF, deposited in the U. S. Federal Reserve.

• 2004 Athens Olympics: Jason Read ( Ringoes, N. J .) was a member of the U. S. Men's Eight that won gold and set a world record in rowing ; Temple women's basketball coach, Dawn Staley, was the United States team captain and flag bearer and a member of the women's basketball team that won gold ; Miles Avery ( Philadelphia native and Temple graduate ) is an assistant coach on the Olympic Team and personal coach of All-Around Champion Paul Hamm. Juan Ignacio Sanchez ( Bahia Blanca, Argentina ) Temple's graduate was a member of the Argentina's Basketball national team that won the gold medal.

In May 1997, the U. S. suspended 50 % of Argentina's GSP benefits because of its allegedly unsatisfactory pharmaceutical patent law.