what is the history of Argentina?
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-The area of present Argentina was sparsely populated until it was colonised by Europeans. The native people known as Diaguita lived in northwestern Argentina on the edge of the expanding Inca Empire; the Guaraní lived farther east.\n\nEuropeans arrived in 1502. Spain established a permanent colony on the site of Buenos Aires in 1580, and the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1776. Independence from Spain was declared on July 9, 1816. Centralist and federationist groups were in conflict, until national unity was established and the constitution promulgated in 1853.\n\nForeign investment and immigration from Europe aided the introduction of modern agricultural techniques and integration of Argentina into the world economy in the late 19th century. In the 1880s the "Conquest of the Desert" subdued or exterminated the remaining native tribes throughout Patagonia.\n\nFrom 1880 to 1930 Argentina became one of the ten wealthiest nations. Conservative forces dominated Argentine politics until 1916, when their traditional rivals, the Radicals, won control of the government. The military forced Hipólito Yrigoyen from power in 1930 leading to another decade of Conservative rule.\n\n\nPolitical change led to the presidency of Juan Perón in 1946, who aimed at empowering the working class and greatly expanded the number of unionised workers. The Revolución Libertadora of 1955 deposed him.\n\nIn the 1950s and 1960s, military and civilian administrations traded power. When military governments failed to revive the economy and suppress escalating terrorism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the way was open for Perón's return to the presidency in 1973, with his third wife, María Estela Isabel Martínez de Perón, as Vice President. During this period, extremists on the left and right carried out terrorist acts with a frequency that threatened public order.\n\nPerón died in 1974. His wife succeeded him in office, but a military coup removed her from office in 1976, and the armed forces formally exercised power through a junta in charge of the self-appointed National Reorganisation Process, until 1983. The armed forces repressed opposition using harsh illegal measures (the "Dirty War"); thousands of dissidents were "disappeared", while the SIDE cooperated with the CIA, DINA and other South American intelligence agencies in Operation Condor. Many of the military leaders that took part in the Dirty War were trained in the U.S. financed School of the Americas. Among them Argentine dictators Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola.\n\nEconomic problems, charges of corruption, public revulsion in the face of human rights abuses and, finally, the country's 1982 defeat in the Falklands War discredited the Argentine military regime.\n\nDemocracy was restored in 1983. Raúl Alfonsín's Radical government took steps intending to account for the "disappeared", establishing civilian control of the armed forces and consolidating democratic institutions. Failure to resolve endemic economic problems and an inability to maintain public confidence caused his early departure.\n\nPresident Carlos Menem imposed peso-dollar fixed exchange rate in 1991 to stop hyperinflation, and adopted far-reaching market-based policies, dismantling protectionist barriers and business regulations, and implementing a privatisation program. These reforms contributed to significant increases in investment and growth with stable prices through most of the 1990s.\n\nThe Menem and de la Rúa administrations faced diminished competitiveness of exports, massive imports which damaged national industry and reduced employment, chronic fiscal and trade deficits, and the contagion of several economic crises. The Asian financial crisis in 1998 precipitated an outflow of capital that mushroomed into a recession, which led to a total freezing of the bank accounts (the corralito), and culminated in a financial panic in November 2001. The
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A priori catholique puisqu'il est d'origine argentine
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How do we regain our democracy in 1983??\n\nWell the military who had taken the government fought and lost a war against England for the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands.\nAlso the Argentine economy was ill managed and people were tired of living in a non democratic country.\n\nSo the army lost the political power and they called elections
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No, Argentina is not a Commonwealth nation. The general rules for a country being a member of the Commonwealth is that they have had a past history of being connected to England and Argentina is a country with a Spanish / Portguese history
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A very interesting and very controversial question. Not everyone is going to accept either side's position. \n\nThere are two ways to look at the situation: History of ownership & current residents.\n\nMost of the current residents are British citizens of Scottish descent. The inhabitants, for the most part, are extremely supportive of their British status. I was in Argentina last year and visited the Falklands, as I'm a historian and have a prticular interest in the FIs. \n\nAs to the history, it's varied and not entirely bloodless, even before the Falkland War most people think of when those words are used.\n\nThe FIs were unihabited when the Spanish arrived, but archaeological evidence suggests native visitations, probably by the Yaghan (a native peoples of Tierra del Fuego). The Spanish took control, though both the French & the Brits had various types of inhabitations on the islands. Eventually, the UK invaded in 1833. It's pretty much been Brit ever since then. Argentina still claims it, though the Argies are in no shape to cntest this.\n\nSo, who "was right"? It all depends on your politics. If you believe in Argentine expansion (or "Reclamation") of former or contested possessions, then certainly the Argies were correct in invading. If you want to honor the wishes of a vast percentage of the population as well as the standing historical occupation of the island, then the Brits. \n\nIt's all in the politics.
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25th August 1825\nThe independence was from both the "United Provinces of the South" (that was becoming the republic of Argentina) and the Empire of Brazil (occupying the territory).\n\nThis was because both big nations wanted this stripe of land in their territories because of its strategic value.\n\nEngland cut into the discussion and between local authorities (segregationists), Buenos Aires, Brazil and England created a new country which was "independent" since 25th August 1825 (not so much because for 10 years both argentina and brazil could mess with internal affairs, England had de rights of navigation of all fluvial waters with no exception).\n\nRegarding leadership, the "freedom crusade" (cruzada libertadora) was a movement lead by a group called the 33 orientals (oriental is the name of the people of uruguay, because its east of the river uruguay), the 33 orientals were not only 33, but were freemasons, thats why the symbolic number. The leader of the group was Juan Antonio Lavalleja.\n\nIn the 18th of July of 1830 the first constitution of the country was sworn. The two traditional political parties of te country were already established, today they are still working, making the colorado and national party the eldest political parties in the world.
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The Installation of Celulose processing plants and a difference of oppinion with argentina, which has got us a virtual economic blockage from them to us.\n\nThe economic development, current but permanent.\n\nThe closage of a cooperative of credit and savings, known as cofac and the funding of a new enterprise coming from international investors and the ashes of cofac.
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Italy , Argentina , Iran
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Argentina did participate in all the world cup tournaments except. 1938,1950,1954,1970. They won the cup in 1978 with their best player Mario Cempes, and their captain Passarella, and in the 1986 Diego Armando Maradona, the best player in the history of the game gave them there second title and led them to the finals in 1990 where they lost against Germany 1-0 with a false penalty scored by Andreas Brehme in the 76 as i recall
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Clothing (wool), meat, bookstores/publishing houses, restaurants/food, tourism.  \n\nArgentina is a beautiful country, with many different landscapes to explore, so tourism is a major industry there.  And tourism makes other industries grow there: restaurants and clothing, for example.  Argentinians are well-known in South America as good readers, so it would be interesting to open bookstores or even a publishing house there.  And it is the land of meat - sheep, cows and others.
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Try the FIFA official site. It tells you all about its history.\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,4,00.html
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This is the full history of the band\nhttp://www.abba-world.net/#\nhope this helps
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Uruguay gano en 1930, Argentina eran 2do
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Mexico 1986...Argentina played Germany at AzTeca Stadium, Mexico city...\nMARADONA´s AGE!
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Argentina.  The European settlers wiped them out.
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Argentina mainly, but originated in Colombia
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here:\n\nhttp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/mex_am/chronology.html