Argentina

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The flag of Argentine Republic.

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina), is a country in South America. With a total surface area of 2,766,890 km² (1,078,000 sq mi), it is the second largest country in the continent, next to Brazil, and eighth largest in the world. It is bordered by Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is a federal republic, currently lead by President Néstor Kirchner since May 25, 2003, and will be succeeded on December 10, 2007, by his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Its official language is Spanish. It has a total population of 40,301,927, as of a July 2007 estimate, making it the 30th country in the world by population. Its currency is the Argentine peso, issued by the Central Bank of Argentina. It is divided in 23 provinces and its capital and largest city, Buenos Aires. It gained its independence from Spain in July 9, 1816.

Bibliography

• Blustein, Paul. And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina.;; PublicAffairs, 2005. 278 pp.
• Boyce, D. George. The Falklands War. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 246 pp.
• Cleary, Matthew R. and Stokes, Susan C. Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico. Russell Sage Found., 2006. 244 pp.
• Helmke, Gretchen. Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. 221 pp.
• Levitsky, Steven and Murillo, María Victoria, ed. Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. Pennsylvania State U. Press, 2006. 325 pp.
• MacLachlan, Colin M. Argentina: What Went Wrong. Praeger, 2006. 221 pp.
• Robben, Antonius C. G. M. Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 467 pp.
• Rocchi, Fernando. Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930. Stanford U. Press, 2006. 394 pp.

Cultural

• Baim, Jo. Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon. Indiana U. Press, 2007. 232 pp.
• Garth, Todd S. The Self of the City: Macedonio Fernández, the Argentine Avant-Garde, and Modernity in Buenos Aires. Bucknell U. Press, 2005. 236 pp.
• Gordillo, Gastón R. Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco. Duke U. Press, 2005. 304 pp.
• Thompson, Robert Farris. Tango: The Art History of Love.' Pantheon, 2005. 360 pp.

• The United States Central Intelligence Agency. Argentina. Retreived on November 27, 2007.