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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 15:38 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

    Two million Argentines across the country join the biggest anti-government protest in years

    Hundred of thousands congregated in downtown Buenos Aires emblematic sites

    Almost two million Argentines marched on Thursday evening across the country’s cities and towns in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy, corruption, street crime and President Cristina Fernandez efforts to reform the media, the courts and the constitution so she can bid for a third consecutive four year mandate.

  • Friday, April 19th 2013 - 03:14 UTC

    May peace prevail: Cristina and Mujica fly together to Peru on Tango 01

    The two leaders meet at Aeroparque before boarding the Argentine presidency carrier

    Sooner than expected Argentine President Cristina Fernandez seems to have accepted her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica’s apologies following his coarse words: “this old lady is worse than the one-eyed man” to refer to the Argentine leader and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.

  • Thursday, April 18th 2013 - 10:19 UTC

    Urgent meeting of Unasur in Lima to express support for Venezuela’s Maduro

    Cristina Fernandez, Rousseff, Mujica and Correa have confirmed attendance in Lima

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández will travel to Lima for a UNASUR meeting on Thursday in which regional countries are expected to express their support for the elections results in Venezuela and President elect Nicolas Maduro.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 08:06 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez and Mujica could overcome incident at Maduro’s ceremony in Caracas

    The old lady and the cross eyed man with their Uruguayan friend

    Argentina and Uruguay presidents could hold an unofficial meeting next Friday in Caracas when they attend the taking office ceremony of Venezuelan president next Friday, according to Montevideo diplomatic sources.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:54 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez calls on the US to recognize the Venezuelan government

    For the sake of peace, said the Argentine president

    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez demanded the United States “recognizes the Venezuelan government” following on Sunday’s election in which Nicolas Maduro was confirmed as president despite a very tight margin (just over 1% of ballots) and challenges by the opposition candidate.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 02:06 UTC

    Despite invitation Argentine ambassador will not attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral

    The Foreign Office excluded Cristina Fernandez from the guests’ list but included Ambassador Alicia Castro

    Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro has declined the official invitation to attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, Downing Street reported. Lady Thatcher was Britain’s PM when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and she sent a task force to successfully recover them in June 1982 after a 74-day armed conflict.

  • Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:10 UTC

    Mujica envoy to Buenos Aires to try and re-establish ‘normal contacts’ with Cristina Fernandez

    Apologies, a personal letter and waiting for Cristina Fernandez to answer the phone

    Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign minister Roberto Conde is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires this week as part of President Jose Mujica’s administration efforts to rebuild bilateral relations with Argentina following his ‘coarse, jail-slang’ descriptions of president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, which were refuted as ‘unacceptable and denigrating”.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

    Details of Lady Thatcher’s funeral; Cristina Fernandez not in the invite list

    Over 2.000 invitations will be sent out for the funeral service at St Paul’s

    Britain has decided not to invite Argentine President Cristina Kirchner to the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street said on Thursday. The decision follows on a special request from the Thatcher family.However Ambassdor Alicia Castro will be invited since according to diplomatic protocol Britain has normal relations with the UK, and it is a state to state issue.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

    Cooperate and move on

    Falklanders celebrating the March 10/11 referendum

    By Fabian Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein (*) - In Argentina, the passing of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brings memories of a seemingly irresoluble conflict. The conflict stands as a metaphor of a larger history of global misunderstandings.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

    When oil is involved, compromise is key

    Professor Terry Karl

    By Terry Karl (*) - The death of Margaret Thatcher will not change the necessity for or the timing of negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas issue. This political football has re-emerged repeatedly – regardless of the leaders in power – usually for domestic reasons in both Argentina and the United Kingdom. There is little political will for a settlement in the short-term on either side, especially now that offshore oil is publicly and definitively in the picture.