query: country_of_citizenship marcelo birmajer
supports: Lithuania (UK and US: ), officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in Northern Europe. One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.9 million people , and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians are a Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. Marcelo Birmajer ( born November 29 , 1966 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine Jewish author . The grandson of Romanian , Polish , Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants . Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido . Birmajer 's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants . Most stories feature Jewish characters , and he frequently uses for them the names Javier , or Mordejai ( Hebrew :   ) depending on the character 's level of religious observance . He also addresses Jewish issues such as synagogue attendance , Bar Mitzvahs , and the ever present alternative to immigrate to Israel . Other recurrent subjects are married life , especially in his series `` Stories of married men '' ( Spanish : Historias de hombres casados ) , and the Argentine society and its crisis . Many of Birmajer 's works have clear autobiographical lines , presenting a main character who is himself a writer . An important part of his bibliography , specially in his beginnings , is youth literature . Birmajer is a frequent contributor to one or two newspapers throughout the Spanish - speaking world . His brother , Rabbi Eduardo Birmajer , was assassinated by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem on 23 December 2015 . The Río de la Plata ("River of Silver")  rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries  is the river and estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean, forming a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America. The Americas, also collectively called America, encompass the totality of the continents of North America and South America. Together they make up most of Earth's western hemisphere and comprise the "New World".  Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million. Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a federal republic in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor 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 Passage to the south. With a mainland area of , Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the second largest in Latin America, and the largest Spanish-speaking one. The country is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (singular "provincia") and one autonomous city ("ciudad autónoma"), Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress.
  The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Lithuanians (singular "lietuvis/lietuv") are a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,561,300 people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland. Their native language is Lithuanian, one of only two surviving members of the Baltic language family. According to the census conducted in 2001, 83.45% of the population of Lithuania identified themselves as Lithuanians, 6.74% as Poles, 6.31% as Russians, 1.23% as Belarusians, and 2.27% as members of other ethnic groups. Most Lithuanians belong to the Roman Catholic Church, while the Lietuvininkai who lived in the northern part of East Prussia prior to World War II, were mostly Evangelical Lutherans.
candidates: argentina argentine bolivia british chile earth uruguay
answer: argentina