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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 00:10 UTC

Tag: Mauricio Macri President

  • Thursday, February 16th 2017 - 11:31 UTC

    Trump on the phone with Macri; invitation to the White House

    Macri speaking with Trump from his office at the Olivos presidential residence

    United States president Donald Trump was on the phone on Wednesday afternoon to speak with his Argentine peer Mauricio Macri. The five minute talk, according to Argentine sources, addressed the bilateral agenda, the Venezuela situation and an invitation for Macri to visit US sometime in April/June.

  • Wednesday, February 15th 2017 - 09:18 UTC

    Argentine prosecution accuses President Macri of conflicts of interest

    Prosecutors and Macri's opponents allege the president's family business benefited from the financial terms of the deal, which they say canceled part of the debt.

    An Argentine prosecutor on Tuesday demanded a judicial investigation into alleged financial conflicts of interest by the country's President Mauricio Macri and family. Macri is accused of a conflict of interest in overseeing a deal as president to settle debts incurred by the postal service in a period when it was controlled by his father's business. His government has denied any wrongdoing.

  • Monday, February 13th 2017 - 10:14 UTC

    Vice-president Pence: Trump looks forward to speaking with president Macri

    It was the first official contact between the Trump administration and the government of president Macri

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri and US vice-president Mike Pence spoke last Friday on the phone and agreed that the two countries need to redouble their efforts to enhance job creation and economic growth. The vice-president also noted that president Donald Trump looks forward to speaking with president Macri.

  • Monday, February 13th 2017 - 09:20 UTC

    Mercosur/EU technical discussions in Brussels ahead of Buenos Aires meeting

    Earlier this month in Brasilia, presidents Mauricio Macri and Michel Temer agreed to give a new thrust to Mercosur trade negotiations with the European Union

    Mercosur representatives will be meeting their European Union counterparts this week, beginning Monday, in Brussels in anticipation of another round of trade and cooperation discussions scheduled for March in Buenos Aires. Mercosur members, under the coordination of Argentina, which currently holds the group's chair are attending with a common position reached after several days of videoconferences.

  • Saturday, February 11th 2017 - 07:36 UTC

    Mercosur meeting in March to address internal tariffs and Mexico

    Argentine and Brazilian presidents Macri and Temer agreed in Brasilia that approaching the Pacific Alliance must also be a priority for Mercosur

    Mercosur foreign ministers will be meeting next March 9 in Buenos Aires in the framework of Argentina's pro tempore chair and following on the Argentine/Brazilian presidents recent meeting when it was decided to give the group a new thrust taking advantage of the new world scenario.

  • Wednesday, February 8th 2017 - 08:02 UTC

    Macri and Temer agree to open Mercosur and to closer ties with Mexico

    In a state visit to Brasilia Macri said that Mercosur would focus on strengthening its relationship with Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy after Brazil.

    The leaders of Brazil and Argentina said on Tuesday they would pursue closer ties with Mexico and other Latin American nations alarmed by U.S. President Donald Trump's promises to tear apart trade deals and build a wall in the Mexican border to protect American jobs.

  • Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 06:47 UTC

    Temer and Macri meet next week to make Mercosur an effective free trade space

    The intention of Temer and Macri is to achieve a free trade zone for all Mercosur goods, and “the sooner barriers are eliminated, it's the best possible scenario”

    Brazil and Argentina will attempt to eliminate trade barriers which limit or impede Mercosur trade, ensuring a free trade space, “the sooner the better”, revealed Brazilian diplomats in anticipation of the presidential summit next week, when Mauricio Macri is received by Michel Temer in Brasilia.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:33 UTC

    Argentina issues US$ 7bn in 5 and 10-year bonds at 5.625% to 7% rate

    Investors see plenty of upside as President Macri rolls back the populist policies of his predecessor and tries to steer the economy back onto a sustainable growth path

    Argentina launched a US$7bn two-part bond on Thursday, covering its planned dollar issuance for the year in one fell swoop on the back of more than US$21bn of orders. The deal was the sovereign's third in US dollars since being welcomed back to the international capital markets last year after a protracted fight with creditors, and demand was strong.

  • Friday, January 20th 2017 - 20:10 UTC

    Hopes in Argentina that major terrorist actions will be finally investigated

    Two years ago, Nisman accused former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez of reaching a secret deal with Iran to cover up a terrorist attack

    Two years after the death of Alberto Nisman, organizers of tributes to the deceased Argentine prosecutor appear hopeful that the circumstances of his death will be clarified. Tributes were held for Nisman who was found dead at his home in the Argentine capital in January, 2015, in the midst of his investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center.

  • Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

    Macri announces program to boost development of Vaca Muerta shale formation

    YPF, BP-controlled Pan American Energy, France's Total, Shell, Chevron and US Dow, pledged to invest a combined US$5bn this year in Vaca Muerta

    Argentina's government has agreed to extend a natural gas wellhead price subsidy until 2020 and reduce labor costs in a bid to jumpstart investment in the Vaca Muerta shale formation. The agreement, reached between the national government, the provincial government of Neuquen, industry and labor unions, comes at a time of lackluster upstream activity, reflecting an uncertain price environment and cost concerns.