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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - An abandoned power plant in Buenos Aires dating back to the early 20th century has been transformed into a cultural center, a key part of plans to revitalize the "poor" south of Argentina's capital. The old brick factory topped with a ...  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Police on Tuesday defused a pair of powerful firecrackers hidden in a Buenos Aires theater and apparently timed to explode just when a crowd of high-paying guests would have gathered to greet former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.  

Victoria Montenegro, an Argentinian mother of three who lives in Buenos Aires, this week received confirmation that a body found in a Uruguayan cemetery is that of her father, Roque Orlando Montenegro, who disappeared while she was an infant, during Argentinas so-called Dirty War of 1976 to 1983.  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s government is revoking the concession of the company whose commuter train ran crashed in Buenos Aires in February, killing 51 people and injuring 703. Planning Minister Julio de Vido says the Trains of Buenos Aires ...  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pampa Energia S.A. (NYSE: PAM; Buenos Aires Stock Exchange: PAMP), the largest integrated electricity company in Argentina that, through its subsidiaries, participates in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity,...  

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentinas nine-year economic expansion appears to be slowing sharply, according to analysts, who predict growth of 2.5 percent to 3 percent this year, half the 5.1 percent projected by the governments 2012 budget and down sharply from last years 8.9 percent rise. Some economists are even predicting recession before years end, saying recently imposed currency and trade restrictions, high...  

As glitter rained down over 100,000 screaming fans in a Buenos Aires soccer stadium late last month, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner trumpeted her government's takeover of Argentina's biggest oil company, YPF."We have recovered one of the most emblematic companies in Argentina," said President Kirchner, who expropriated the majority shares held by Spanish energy giant Repsol. "This government is looking for new forms of intervention...  

May 18 (Reuters) - Argentina's Boca Juniors and Velez Sarsfield took 1-0 leads in the first legs of their Libertadores Cup quarter-finals against Brazilian opposition in Buenos Aires. Striker Pablo Mouche scored in the 51st minute to give six ...  

BUENOS AIRES (MarketWatch) -- The Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange on Thursday trimmed its outlook for Argentina's 2011-12 soybean crop by 1.1 million metric tons to 39.9 million tons due to recent flooding that damaged fields in key areas of the farm belt.  

A security worker smokes outside a money exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - The man in the brown suit doesn't need to speak above a whisper to sell his goods along a busy street in the Argentine capital ...  

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Argentine hockey player filmed training on the Falkland Islands in a controversial video that caused a furore in Britain last week has been dropped from Argentina's final Olympic Games warm-up event. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters ...  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Residents of the Falkland Islands are angry over a TV commercial secretly filmed in the islands by Argentina, which calls the archipelago the Islas Malvinas and claims it was stolen from them by Britain nearly 180 years ago.  

In this frame grab from a TV advertisement released by Argentine Presidential Office, an Argentine Olympic field hockey player Fernando Zylberberg exercises in front of the Globe Tavern in Stanley, Falkland Islands.AP2012 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ...  

Buenos Aires Bakery & Cafe is one of those places that you can never really turn down. But you rarely make it. Blame your busy schedules, Blame its location at 71st street and Collins Avenue. Blame the fact it's packed on weekday mornings and between 8 and ...  

Breathe Buenos Aires into your soulThe Copenhagen PostMovies like British director Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson, American star Robert Duvall's Assassination Tango, and Broadway's Tango Argentina, along with the hugely successful Strictly Come Dancing franchise, fuelled the flames, which was already hot ...