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Moebius (1996 Film)
''Moebius'' is a 1996 Argentina, Argentine science fiction film directed by Gustavo Mosquera, and starring Guillermo Angelelli, Roberto Carnaghi and Annabella Levy. It is based on the classic 1950 short story "A Subway Named Mobius" by Armin Joseph Deutsch. - University of Bologna The film is set in the Buenos Aires Underground, in a dark and dystopian Buenos Aires. Plot On one 4 March, the controllers of the Buenos Aires Underground discover that train number UM-86 (a Siemens-Schuckert Orenstein & Koppel train), along with its passengers, has gone missing in the network of tunnels. After searching the entire network (which in the film is shown as being much larger than in reality) they fail to find both the train and its passengers. In an atte ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Mosquera
Gustavo is the Latinate form of a Germanic male given name with respective prevalence in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. It is derived from Gustav /ˈɡʊstɑːv/, also spelled Gustaf, a Swedish name, likely from Slavic Gostislav. People with the name Drama, film and television * Gustavo Alatriste, Mexican actor, director, and producer of films, married to Silvia Pinal * Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953), Argentine artist, curator, writer, and theatre designer * Gustavo Sorola, American actor, podcast host, and co-founder of the American company, Rooster Teeth Engineering, religion and science * Gustavo Colonnetti (1886–1968), Italian mathematician and engineer * Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (1928-2024), Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology at the University of Notre Dame * Gustavo Tamayo, Colombian ophthalmologist * Gustavo Marín, Chilean-French economist and sociologist * Gustavo Scuseria (born 1956), Robert A. Welch Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parque De La Ciudad
The Parque de la Ciudad () is a former amusement park in the Villa Soldati neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. History The park was planned by the administration of Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore in 1978. Cacciatore, appointed by Argentina's last military government, envisaged the park as the centerpiece of efforts to revitalize the dilapidated Villa Soldati ward. The mayor opened the contract to develop a theme park for bidding, and awarded the bid to Interama Parks S.A., a company established for the purpose; Alberto Gourdy Allende was chosen as its first managing director. Interama Parks was formed for use of the military that governed Argentina at that time, but also for civilian use. The company contracted the Swiss firm Intamin to supply imported attractions, including mechanical games, roller coasters, facilities, accessories, shopping trolleys, popcorn machines, and the Interama Tower, an observation tower. The amusement area itself is a relatively small facet of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San José Vieja (Buenos Aires Underground)
San José vieja is a ghost station in the Buenos Aires Underground, which was part of Line E until its closure in 1966. It is one of two ghost stations on the line, the other being Constitución. History The station was part of Line E's original trajectory to Constitución railway station Constitución railway station () is a large railway station in Constitución, Buenos Aires, Constitución, a in central Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full official name of the station is (in English: Constitution Square Station) reflecting the fa ... where it combined with Line C and terminated. However, the line was re-routed further towards the centre of the city in 1966 in order to improve the line's traffic and the station was closed along with Constitución station. In the year the line was re-routed, the station was still used briefly as part of a low-frequency branch of the line. However, when it was finally closed in that same year, it was used as a storage area for the line' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independencia (Line C Buenos Aires Underground)
Independencia is a station on Line C of the Buenos Aires Underground. From here, passengers may transfer to the Independencia Station on Line E and Metrobus 9 de Julio. The station was opened on 9 November 1934 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Constitución to Diagonal Norte. The station lies under Plazoleta Castelao, on the intersection of Avenida Independencia and Avenida 9 de Julio Avenida 9 de Julio () is a major thoroughfare in the city centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its name honors Argentine Declaration of Independence, Argentina's Independence Day, July 9, 1816. The avenue runs around to the west of the Río de la .... Notable sites within walking distance of the station include the Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE) and the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences. References External links Buenos Aires Underground stations Railway stations in Argentina opened in 1934 {{BuenosAires-underground-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catedral (Buenos Aires Underground)
Catedral is a terminal station of the Line D (Buenos Aires Underground), Line D of the Buenos Aires Underground. From here, passengers may transfer to the Perú (Buenos Aires Underground), Perú station on Line A (Buenos Aires Underground), Line A and the Bolívar (Buenos Aires Underground), Bolívar station on Line E (Buenos Aires Underground), Line E. Overview It is located at the intersection of President Roque Sáenz Peña Avenue, Roque Sáenz Peña Avenue and Florida Street, which gave the original name of the station. Its current name comes from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, located in the vicinity of the station. This station had the name ''Florida'', as recorded on maps of the network of 1955. The station was inaugurated on 3 June 1937 as part of the inaugural section of Line D, between Catedral and Tribunales (Buenos Aires Underground), Tribunales. In 1997 it was declared a national historic monument. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abuelas De Plaza De Mayo
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo () is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship. The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto. The organization was founded in 1977 to locate children kidnapped during the repression, some of them born to mothers in prison who later " disappeared", and to return the children to their surviving biological families. Around 30,000 people between the ages of 16 and 35 are believed to have disappeared; around 30% were women, and of those women, around 3% were pregnant. The work of the Grandmothers, assisted by United States geneticist Mary-Claire King, has led to the location of about 25 percent of the estimated 500 children kidnapped or born in detention centers. During the military era they were illegally adopted, with their original identities hidden.Juan Ignacio Irigaray"Los santos inocentes" '' El Mundo'', 11 June 1998 By 1998 the identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madres De Plaza De Mayo
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo () is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to abuses by the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla. Initially the association worked to find the ''desaparecidos'', people who had disappeared without arrests, trials or judicial process; most were believed dead. Their mothers and supporters investigated to determine the culprits of what were considered crimes against humanity in order to bring them to trial and sentencing. The Mothers began demonstrating in the Plaza de Mayo, the public square located in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in the city of Buenos Aires, on 30 April 1977. They petitioned to have their disappeared children, mostly young adults, returned alive. The women demonstrated in the square on a daily basis and held signs with their pleas, followed by carrying photos of their missing children, and wearing white scarves with their names. By declaring a state of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Condor
Operation Condor (; ) was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983. Condor was formally created in November 1975, when Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's spy chief, Manuel Contreras, invited 50 intelligence officers from Argentina, Brazil, Bolívia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay to the Army War Academy in Santiago, Chile. They were backed by the United States, which collaborated and financed the covert operations. France (which denies involvement), Republic of Venezuela, Venezuela, and Colombia are also alleged to have collaborated. The operation ended with the fall of the National Reorganization Process, Argentine junta in 1983. Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. Some estimates are that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić (; 25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as first gentleman of Argentina during the early tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first (and only) person to serve in this role. Ideologically, he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive, with his political approach called Kirchnerism. Born in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Kirchner studied law at the National University of La Plata. He met and married Cristina Fernández at this time, returned with her to Río Gallegos at graduation, and opened a law firm. Commentators have criticized him for a lack of legal activism during the Dirty War, an issue he would involve himself in as president. Kirchner ran fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process ( PRN; often simply , "the Process") was the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is often known simply as the ("last military junta"), ("last military dictatorship") or ("last civil–military dictatorship"), because there have been several in the country's history and no others since it ended. The Argentine Armed Forces seized political power during the March 1976 coup against the presidency of Isabel Perón, the successor and widow of former President Juan Perón, at a time of growing economic and political instability. Congress was suspended, political parties were banned, civil rights were limited, and free market and deregulation policies were introduced. The President of Argentina and his ministers were appointed from military personnel while Peronists and leftists were persecuted. The junta launched the Dirty War, a campaign of state terrorism against opponents involving torture, extrajudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic () are the combined armed forces of Argentina. It is controlled by the Commander-in-Chief (the President) and a civilian Minister of Defense. In addition to the Army, Navy and Air Force An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ..., there are two security forces, controlled by the Ministry of Security, which can be mobilized on occasion of an armed conflict: the National Gendarmerie, a gendarmerie used to guard borders and places of strategic importance; and the Argentine Naval Prefecture, Naval Prefecture, a coast guard used to protect internal major rivers and maritime territory. Traditionally, Argentina maintains close defense cooperation and military-supply relationships with the United States and to a lesser extent, with Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
