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Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 19, 2013. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that he does not rule out an attack of the Western countries that support his opponents because he will never give up to their "inadmissible" demand of stepping down, although asserting that he is willing to negotiate a way-out to the war in his country. 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. Dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has died today at the age of 87, of natural causes. He took power in 1976 after the coup d'état and commanded the bloodiest dictatorship of Argentina until 1981.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina stressed that former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has died "at an ordinary jail" and "repudiated by all the Argentine nation".

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. March 24, 2004 was the day when the then president Néstor Kirchner took a historical decision by ordering the Army head, Roberto Bendini, to take down the pictures of Jorge Rafael Videla and Reynaldo Bignone from the galleries of the Military College.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. The head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group referred to the passing away of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla by saying that “history will assess the genocide and opprobrium of the civil-military dictatorship he headed, and what he did not regret doing”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. Human Rights Secretary Martín Fresneda referred to the death of the oppressor Jorge Rafael Videla at the age of 87 when saying: "I do not celebrate the death of anybody, but an Argentina that has known how to achieve justice." 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met today with Cabinet Chief, Juan Manuel Abal Medina, and the Presidential General Secretary, Oscar Parrilli.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wondered "how are erased those inaugurated schools, those youths that could attend the universities, those netbooks, and the employment.”

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. The President of Syria, Bashar Al Assad offers to Télam an exclusive interview during an encounter for news agencies that took place in Damascus. It will be released on Saturday.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013.The ex Brazilian head of state Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva defended the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner when stressing that "when the governments build social justice, all the television channels may say the opposite, but that fact is not forgotten." 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. The currency voluntary exteriorization promoted by the National Government “abides by all the international standards on fiscal transparency" due to the incorporation of the same parameters of the Tax Agreement implemented in 2009, according to the Federal Public Incomes Agency (AFIP).

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. The Government went a step further in the judicial reform process by making official the creation of three federal courts of cassation. The norm was published in the Official Gazette on Friday.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. Industry Minister asserted that the National Government will continue with its defending policy of the industrial production, the development of the domestic market and the continuity of the work positions. 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 17, 2013. Argentina and Venezuela signed a memorandum of understanding by which Argentina will be able to present a list of slaughter, manufacturer and storing plants that want to export their products and by-products of animal origin to Venezuela.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva head on Thursday afternoon the opening ceremony of the Metropolitan University for the Education and the Job (UMET, in Spanish).

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. President Cristina Fernández remarked yesterday during a rally headed in Ituzaingó district, the need to “count with more people committed to obtain a new justice and people who dare denounce when there is complicity with the police or politicians”.                             

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. The Cabinet Chief, Juan Manuel Abal Medina asserted today that the Government's draft bill to legalize undeclared foreign currency aims at "recovering the Argentine savings", adding that there are "guarantees" to avoid funds of "spurious origin" to be declared.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. President Cristina Fernández met yesterday at the Government House with a group of labor leaders who represent six unions that have signed wage agreements with an average of 24 percent increase for their members, following the collective bargaining negotiations conducted with their employers, and supervised by the Labor Ministry.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. Argentina's Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman participated of the II Conference of States Parties to the American Convention on Human Rights that took place in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, in which Argentina reinforced its "position of commitment with a more universal and efficient Interamerican System." 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. May 16, 2013. The president of State oil company YPF, Miguel Galuccio, and his counterpart oil major Chevron head for Latin America and Africa, Ali Moshiri, signed a commercial agreement for the development of shale oil at the Vaca Muerta shale formation in Patagonia, Neuquén. It is foreseen an initial investment of up to US$1.5 billion.