Argentina’s Senate unanimously approved a bill that offers one-time compensation to the families of the 85 people killed in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center. Under the bill approved Wednesday without debate, the compensation will be about $170,000 for each fatality in the Buenos Aires attack. Also, for those whose injuries were “extremely…
An Argentine union leader who called a government minister “little Jew boy” defended himself by saying “Everybody calls him this.” In a radio interview Wednesday, Luis Barrionuevo, who heads the Blue and White CGT union, in discussing a national general strike initiated the previous day by his union, said the Minister of the Economy, Axel…
A team of archeologists and researchers discovered what they believe was a refuge for Nazis in an Argentinian forest, near the border with Paraguay. It is believed that the Nazis prepared the hideout during the first half of the 1940s as a place to flee to should World War II not go in their favor,…
Israel’s Agriculture Minister blamed Iran for two terrorist attacks in Argentina in the ’90s and said prosecutor Alberto Nisman died because he tried to reveal the truth on the matter. Yair Shamir reiterated Israel’s position on the attacks on Thursday, when he visited the Argentine capital as the head of a delegation to commemorate the…
(Reuters) — The Argentine prosecutor found dead after accusing the president of whitewashing a deadly 1994 bombing embezzled state funds to take prostitutes on lavish vacations, the government said on Thursday, deepening the scandal over his death early this year. Alberto Nisman, found dead two months ago after accusing President Cristina Fernandez of trying to…
Iran financed the 2007 campaign of Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner, in exchange for impunity for Iranians in the AMIA bombing, a magazine is reporting. The Brazilian magazine Veja on Saturday reported that the deal, brokered by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, also provided the Iranians with nuclear know-how. “I need you to broker with Argentina for aid…
A Venezuelan-born Jewish producer making a movie about the 1994 AMIA bombing case and its special prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, said he has been threatened for his choice of topics. Stan Jakubowicz, who currently lives in Miami, will produce the movie, to be called “The Prosecutor.” “This film is not Nisman’s biopic. The film takes a…
Gerardo Sofovich, an Argentine Jewish TV host and producer, writer for theater, cinema and TV, and businessman, has died Sofovich died Sunday of internal bleeding in Buenos Aires. He had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Knows by his nickname “El Ruso”, or the Russian, popular slang used by Jews in Argentina, Sofovich was declared…
