Argentina President
White House Briefing on President's Trip to Mexico by National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Following the meeting with President Fox, the President will meet President Lagos of Chile, and then attend the inauguration ceremony of the Special Summit. At the inauguration ceremony, the President will deliver remarks addressing the strategic areas that I've outlined above. The inauguration ceremony will be followed by a plenary session. And later in the day, the President will meet with President Lula of Brazil. That evening, the President and Mrs. Fox will attend a dinner hosted by President and Mrs. Fox. ... [Read More]
Argentina
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Constitution states that the Federal Government "sustains the apostolic Roman Catholic faith" and provides it some privileges not available to other religions. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report. [Read More]
U.S. Engagement in the Western Hemisphere
Bilateral and Regional Trade EngagementHosted FTAA Ministerial in Miami November 20-21, 2003. Ministerial produced agreement to adhere to January 2005 date for concluding negotiations on an FTAA and to structure agreement to include a comprehensive and balanced set of common obligations as well as a series of ambitious plurilateral agreements. Meetings of trade and investment mechanisms were held with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and MERCOSUR. (MERCOSUR is a customs union with a common external tariff (CET) covering over 85% of traded goods. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay signed the Treaty of Asuncion on March 26, 1991, which created MERCOSUR. Chile and Bolivia became associate members in 1996 and 1997, respectively, but do not participate in the CET.) The U.S. and Chile completed negotiations for a U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement on December 2-6, 2002 in Washi ... [Read More]
Argentina
Argentina is a federal constitutional democracy with an executive branch headed by an elected president, a bicameral legislature, and a separate judiciary. In 1999 voters elected President Fernando de la Rua in generally free and fair elections. After protests in December 2001, de la Rua resigned and was succeeded briefly by three interim presidents before the Legislative Assembly elected Eduardo Duhalde to serve out the remainder of the de la Rua term. The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary, but judges and judicial staff were inefficient and at times subject to political influence.The President is the constitutional commander-in-chief, and a civilian Defense Minister oversees the armed forces. Several agencies share responsibility for maintaining law and order. The Federal Police (PFA) report to the Ministry of Justice, Security, and Human Rights, as do the Border Police (" ... [Read More]
International Students – Educational Information and Resources
Vice President ... President (former) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ... President (former) ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: White House Report, Jan. 31: Blair, Havel, Argentina, Week Ahead
President Bush January 31 phoned Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde and congratulated him on an agreement with the International Monetary Fund that will provide $6.78 billion in new loans to help deal with the worst financial crisis in Argentina's history. ... President Bush the morning of January 31 phoned Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, Fleischer reported. Havel was one of the signators of the letter signed by eight European leaders, published in many newspapers January 30, in support of transatlantic cooperation on Iraq. ... [Read More]
Argentina
In September the La Tablada prisoners launched a hunger strike to bring further pressure on the Government to act on their demand for an appeal. Efforts since 1998 to pass legislation that would have allowed the defendants a chance to appeal their earlier convictions ended in December when the legislation failed to gain the necessary support in both chambers of Congress. Following that, the Supreme Court rejected by a vote of 5-4 a request by the defendants for an appeal. With the legislative and judicial routes thereby closed, on December 29, the President, still under strong international pressure from the IACHR and a wide range of human rights groups, signed a decree commuting the sentences of 11 of the 13 defendants. With these commutations, 9 of the 13 defendants will be eligible for a parole hearing in 2002, one in 2003, and one in 2005. The two leaders of the assault, Enrique Gorriaran and his wife, Ana Maria Sivori, were convicted for their roles a ... [Read More]
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Argentina (09/04)
Argentina's constitution of 1853, as revised in 1994, mandates a separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches at the national and provincial level. Each province also has its own constitution, roughly mirroring the structure of the national constitution. The president and vice president are directly elected to 4-year terms. Both are limited to two consecutive terms; they are allowed to stand for a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The president appoints cabinet ministers, and the constitution grants him considerable power, including authority to enact laws by presidential decree under conditions of "urgency and necessity" and the line-item veto. ... [Read More]
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