Argentina (Crazy History)

People's Federal Republic of Argentina
Argentina, officially the Federal Republic of Argentina, is a single-party federalist socialist republic, located mainly in the southern half of South America. Sharing most of the Southern Cone with neighboring Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Pass to the south. Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, the second largest in Latin America and the largest Spanish-speaking country. It has the second largest economy in the world, behind the Brazilian, and the largest socialist economy. Subdivide in twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires, that is the capital of the nation (Spanish: federal capital) as decided by the congress The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but they exist under a federal system. The first human presence recorded in the area of ​​modern Argentina goes back to the Paleolithic period. The country has its roots in the Spanish colonization of the region during the 16th century. Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, a Spanish foreign deputy government founded in 1776. The declaration and struggle for independence (1810-1818) was followed by a protracted civil war that lasted until 1861, culminating in the reorganization of the country as a federation of provinces with Buenos Aires as its capital. First, Argentina underwent a period of great economic growth. But during the reign of Reynaldo Huásques (1870 - 1898), Argentina became a centrally governed nation, and failed to follow the rest of the world. The oligarchic economy based on the rural environment, coupled with growing European immigration after the Alpine War, led to a period between 1870 and 1910, when Argentine GDP rose by only 10%, while poverty tripled. oligarchic dictatorship led to the Argentine Revolution of 1914, leading to the creation of the first socialist state in the world in 1917 after the Argentine Civil War. During the 1920s and 1940s, Argentina went through a dictatorial period, rivaling Brazil. World War II (1938-1944), Argentina emerged as the world superpower alongside Brazil. Argentina launched the world's first satellite in 1955, the Condor-1, and was the second country to take man to the Moon, after Brazil, in 1971. During 1966 and 1983, Argentina was governed by the Socialist Military Junta of the Argentine People, which temporarily replaced the UCR and the bureaucrats of total power. After 1983, Argentina returned to the socialist with the control of the UCR, and gradually attempted to open itself up to democracy with the opening up of the private initiative of small businesses in 1986, which led to an economic crisis and inflationary downturn that led to the authoritarian government of Rafael Ignácio Estrada, Argentina is a nation in transition to democracy, and a nation in a constant state of rivalry with Brazil, its northern neighbor. Argentina is a member of the CSP (Community of Socialist Progress), the Security of the United Nations, the UN, the ECSN (Economic Community of Socialist Nations) of several other organs,