Argentina

1. Argentina By Colton Brown

2. Introduction • Comprising almost the entire southern half of South America, Argentina is the world's eighth largest country, covering an area of 2.8 million square km. Argentina possesses some of the • As it had in World War I, Argentina proclaimed neutrality at the outbreak of World War II, but in the closing phase .

3. Facts • The Land of Fire is actually an archipelago including the Islam Grande de Tierra. • Argentina is rich in resources, has a well-educated workforce and is one of South America's largest economies.

4. Second in South America only to Brazil in size and population, Argentina is a plain, rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean Aconcagua (22,834 ft, 6,960 m) is the highest peak in the world outside Asia. Argentina is also bordered by Bolivia a Geography

5. Cristina Fernandez swept to victory in the first round of Argentina's presidential election in October 2007 - a victory that many attributed to the popularity of her husband, President Nestor Kirchner. She fought the election campaign largely on Mr Kirchner's record of reducing poverty and unemployment in the wake of the 2001-2002 economic crisis - one of the worst crises the country had ever experienced. Cristina Fernandez

6. More Facts • On April 2, 1982, Galtieri invaded the British-held Falkland Islands, known as Las Islas Malvinas (Malvinas Islands) in Spanish, in what was seen as an attempt to increase his popularity. Great Britain, however, won a decisive victory, and Galtieri resigned in disgrace three days after Argentina’s surrender. Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Bignone took over June 14, amid increasing prodemocratic public sentiment. As the 1983 elections approached, inflation hit 900% and Argentina’s crippling foreign debt reached unprecedented levels.

7. Government Republic • First explored in 1516 by Juan Diaz de Solis, Argentina developed slowly under Spanish colonial rule. Buenos Aires was settled in 1580; the cattle industry was thriving as early as 1600. Invading British forces were expelled in 1806–1807, and after Napoléon conquered Spain (1808),

8. History • First explored in 1516 by Juan Díaz de Solis, Argentina developed slowly under Spanish colonial rule. Buenos Aires was settled in 1580; the cattle industry was thriving as early as 1600. Invading British forces were expelled in 1806–1807.

9. Foods They eat cuisines are based mainly on the cuisines of Spain and Italy with beef as a staple food in most regions of the country.  Goat and lamb are consumed more in the Patagonia region in the south.  German, Swiss and French cuisines can also be found in Argentina. Cuisines from all over the world are available from the many restaurants in Buenos Aires.  Welsh tea rooms are popular in Patagonia due to its large Welsh community. There is also a more pre-Colombian cuisine indigenous to the countries of Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay consisting of beans, maize and chili peppers.

10. Facts Again • These fertile plains are Argentina's bread- basket. They consist of the Humid Pampas along the seaboard and the Dry Pampas in the west and south • In the presidential election of Oct. 1983, Raúl Alfonsín, leader of the Radical Civic Union, handed the Peronist Party its first defeat since its founding. Growing unemployment and quadruple-digit inflation,

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