Word: argentinas
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...Trotskyite and you’re a Fascist shit, said Claudia…And there’s no way around that? [Luz] asked, desperately lovesick…What about poetry? Poetry is pretty irrelevant these days, with what’s going on in Argentina. Maybe you’re right, Luz admitted, on the verge of tears, but maybe you’re wrong.” After briefly allowing this novelistic flourish to enter the story, Bolaño concludes by again taking on the dispassionate voice of the encyclopedist. After Claudia’s death...
...quitting New York City, an idea generally scuttled when residents realized that a lot of Manhattanites didn't know it was part of the club to begin with, and at least a few were confusing it with the little triangular island also named Staten at the southernmost tail of Argentina - which would at least explain why the ferry takes so long. Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley have similarly talked of seceding from greater Los Angeles, but the deal has repeatedly gotten hung up over merchandising rights...
Meanwhile, Britain too was looking for support from its allies, and finding it. At the urging of the Thatcher government, all ten members of the European Community announced an embargo against Argentina on arms and military spare parts. The Europeans also decided to impose a ban on all imports from Argentina (amounting to about $1.76 billion per year) effective this week. The British had already cut off all Argentine imports, restricted export credits and frozen Argentine assets worth about $1.5 billion. The ally upon whom Britain was counting the most, however, was the U.S. Said Sir Nicholas Henderson, Britain...
...intelligence officials discovered that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
Reagan's weak response reflected an Administration desire to go as easy as possible on the Argentines, although the U.S. had supported the U.N. resolution calling for Argentina to get out of the Falklands. Reversing Jimmy Carter's policy, which denied aid to Argentina because of its human rights violations, the Reagan Administration was trying to work closely with the junta. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had singled out the Argentine regime as an example of a "friendly authoritarian" government...