The Argentine spy at the center of a scandal over last month\’s death of a state prosecutor was accused on Tuesday of importing tonnes of contraband merchandise during his final years as head of the country\’s counterintelligence office.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched peacefully through the Argentine capital on Wednesday demanding an independent judiciary, as the country reels from the death of a state prosecutor who had been investigating the president.
Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said on Tuesday.
An Argentine prosecutor has asked a judge to declare as unconstitutional an agreement between Argentina and Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that local courts blamed on Tehran.
An Argentine soccer club lost points after a penalty was leveled due to anti-Semitic chants made by its fans.\n
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman visited the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires two months after his government recognized a unilateral Palestinian state.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad chose Ahmad Vahidi, wanted by Argentina over the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre, as his new defence minister.
The plight of Argentine Jews hammered by the collapse of their country\’s economy was forcefully brought home to a contingent of Los Angeles Jews this month.
Five months ago, Beatrice Ballageure was struggling to make ends meet as a single, 47-year-old Jewish woman living in the capital city of an economically depressed Argentina. She had lost her job several months earlier, but she owned her own apartment and had enough money in the bank to afford basic expenses. She had friends with jobs, and she knew she could rely on her family if real trouble ever came. Then the bottom fell out of Argentina\’s economy.
The United Jewish Communities has pledged more than $40 million this year for the rescue and relief of the Jews of Argentina.
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