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FPV Proposal: $ 100 bill with Hipólito Yrigoyen’s face

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FPV’s Deputies, proposes to issue a $ 100 bill with the face of Hipólito Yrigoyen in replacement of Julio Roca.

Felipe Solá: “I’m away from the opposition”

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Felipe Sola, who acknowledged to being away “of the tauopposition ” to the national government, declared to work with Governor Daniel Scioli while he also highlighted some “hits” of the governing like the universal child allowance. He clarified not being “kirchnerista” but he was “independent”, nevertheless he admitted that he “would like to be part of a political collective.”

Anibal Fernandez: “no officials are involved” in the Shocklender case

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On the radio Anibal Fernandez, said that “no officers are going to be” involved in the judicial investigation into alleged irregularities of public funds of the founding Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is as follows Shocklender is not “A public money.”

New York: Argentina president at the General Assembly of the UN

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President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrived in New York City with her daughter Florence, to attend the UN General Assembly.

De Narvaez: “The national election is well defined”

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The candidate for governor of Buenos Aires of UDESO, Francisco de Narvaez, differenced himself again with his main presidential candidate, Ricardo Alfonsin, by ensuring that there will be no significant changes at the national level in October.

Martin Sabbatella “divided the cake” in La Matanza

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In a particular act, the candidate for governor of Nuevo Encuentro, Martin Sabbatella, handed out pieces of a giant cake “against inequality, the concentration of wealth and exclusion.”

Cristina to Binner: “We do not make decisions by looking at the political color”

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President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner inaugurated a building of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Rosario City with the presence of Santa Fe governor and presidential candidate Hermes Binner.

Historic: Quom community member is elected mayor in Chaco.

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Ricardo Sandoval, candidate of the Frente para laVictoria won the first municipal elections held in the town of Espinillo, Chaco. “It’s the first time that the indigenous community will have a mayor of their own race and be a leader in this area,” said village head nowbelongs to the ethnic Qom.

Alfonsin: “We can fight a second round”

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Alfonsin candidate for president for UDESO (Union for Development) said: “Córdoba, Corrientes, Chaco show that it is difficult, but not impossible, to fight a runoff in October,” referring to the election results in the three districts on yesterday.

Radicales would return to be government in Cordoba’s capital by the hand of Ramon Mestre

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Juecismo defeat is a suprise in the capital of Cordoba. The radical Ramon Mestre imposed with 35.5% against the Peronist candidate for the Federal Riutort in the city, which gets 27.8%.

Elections in Chaco: Capitanich wiped out over 66% of the votes

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The 16.27% of polling stations give a clear difference of 20 points to Capitanich respect to “Alianza para todos” candidate, Roy Nikisch. The current governor imposed a 64.21% versus 31.32% of Nikisch.

Elections in Chaco: The candidates and their parties

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About 760,000 voters will concur today to the polls to elect the new governor of Chaco until 2015.

Tribute to Jorge Julio López after five years of his dissapearance

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Tomorrow, social, political and human rights organizations will mobilize in the city of La Plata, in memory of the five years that have passed since the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, a witness against the repressor Miguel Etchecolatz.

Menem: “Justice was done”

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Former president Carlos Saul Menem said that “justice was done” when he was acquitted in the case of arms smuggling to Ecuador and Croatia. He said he was the victim of a “long political persecution”, but has no “thirst for revenge.”

Cavallo will be tried for having transferred private debt to the state

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Domingo Cavallo, former finance minister and president of the Central Bank when was nationalized the private debt during the dictatorship, will be tried for making such move, which included the transfer of seventeen million dollars in liabilities from private to public coffers. The trial will include a representation of the State Treasury on behalf of Argentina and will be carried out by Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi. Renowned businessmen are involved along with Cavallo.

Hebe de Bonafini: “Schoklender does not know what else to say”

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Hebe de Bonafini, head of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo said that the opposition that summoned Schoklender to the Congress “has no project for the country”.

Sabbatella, “Scioli said our differences when he called Menem to express his eternal joy [for the sentence]“

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The candidate for governor of Nuevo Encuentro, Martin Sabbatella, criticized the Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli. He said tha Scioli expressed “the differences we see between the Government and the Provincial Government” when calling to express their joy to Menem by the ruling that acquitted him in the cause of arms trafficking.

Justice annuled the elections in which only Micheli had presented a list

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Finally, the Central de Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA) will have new elections to define its Secretary General. It was defined by the Constitutional Court of theCourt of Appeals, which favored a previous ruling.

New York Times editorial weighs Argentina for human rights advances

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Today a report published by the New York Times revealed that “countries that have repressive judged responsible for violations of human rights have emerged with greater strength,” and stressed that that decision “did not threaten democracy, and led to more violence. “

35 years away from the Night of the Pencils

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On this day, Argentines commemorate 35 years of Night of the Pencils, when ten high school students who had claimed for a free student ticket were abducted by the military disctatorship.

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