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Montevideo, April 24th 2024 - 23:31 UTC

Tag: Mauricio Macri

  • Tuesday, December 4th 2018 - 05:42 UTC

    British PM May appoints Mark Menzies MP as Trade Envoy to Argentina

    Mark Menzies MP and Trade Envoy to Argentina with Marcos Pe;a, Argentina's cabinet chief. The picture was taken last June when Peña visited London

    Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Mark Menzies MP as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Argentina. The announcement was made on Monday by the Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox, in a message to both Houses of Parliament.

  • Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

    Strong message from Merkel to Macri: How the world sees and expects Argentina to perform

    The German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her meeting with President Macri

    She was the last to arrive, but together with French president Emmanuel Macron one of the most popular leaders during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. Her official aircraft had to turn back because of communications problems so German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a commercial flight from Madrid directly to Buenos Aires, a day late for the inauguration but not for the other activities including a couple of outings in the Argentine capital.

  • Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 07:48 UTC

    President Xi on official visit to Argentina signs 30 agriculture and investment deals

    “China's development benefits Argentina, our region and the world,” Macri said during a ceremony at the presidential residence

    China's president on Sunday signed new trade deals with Argentina as the Asian giant expands its growing role in Latin American economies. Presidents Mauricio Macri of Argentina and Xi Jinping of China announced the more than 30 agriculture and investment deals during a state visit following the Group of 20 summit of leaders in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 21:40 UTC

    Anti-globalist protests and controversy over the use of lethal weapons: Argentine Minister of Security came out to clarify in the framework of the G20

    Patricia Bullrich assured that force weapons would not be used during the protest, something only reserved for situations in which there is “imminent danger”

    After the controversy generated by a resolution in which the Ministry of Security of Argentina allows the police to use lethal weapons against a person who flees in the framework of the summit of the Group of 20 in Buenos Aires, the minister Patricia Bullrich went to clarify that this disposition “has nothing to do with the mobilization” against the G20 crowded by social organizations this Friday.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Air Force One touches down - Trump is in BA for G-20 Summit

    Donald Trump and his wife leave the Air Force One behind at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

    The famous Air Force One, a veritable Flying White House, landed in Ezeiza at 10.10 pm amid tight security measures right on time for US President Donald Trump to rest and get ready for Friday's breakfast meeting with his Argentine colleague Mauricio Macri.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 22:08 UTC

    British PM expected in BA Thursday evening

    Theresa May will become the first British Prime Minister ever to visit Buenos Aires.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May is arriving Thursday evening at the Ezeiza Airport to participate in the G20 Leaders Summit hosted by Argentina, during which she will hold a series of bilateral meetings with some of her peers, including President Mauricio Macri.

  • Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 20:11 UTC

    Air link from Cordoba to the Falklands confirmed by UK and Argentina

    This additional regular flight is part of a “gradual trust-building process, aimed at strengthening links between mainland Argentina and the Islands.”

    The governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom reached an understanding to establish a second commercial air link to the islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) confirmed on Tuesday followed by an official statement of the embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 21:39 UTC

    Dollar climbs in Argentina as Macri worries about football violence

    Macri was publicly addressing the issue of football violence flanked by Ministers Patricia Bullrich and Germán Garavano while the US dollar was going up against the Argentine peso.

    Buenos Aires was still shaking around noon Monday from the weekend's Libertadores Cup fiasco. President Mauricio Macri was publicly addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference escorted by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Germán Garavano. And with the spotlight there, the US dollar crept back up against the Argentine peso after a two-month nadir, closing at AR$ 39.9 per 1 US dollar at the end of the business day.

  • Sunday, November 25th 2018 - 14:29 UTC

    Argentine football hooligans bring shame to their country days before G-20 Summit

    Left: The Boca Juniors bus under attack from hooligans. Right: Boca's Pablo Pérez as he returned to the stadium from the clinic released the picture on social media.

    River Plate hooligans attacked the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players to the Monumental stadium Saturday afternoon for the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final, causing injuries to some of them, which resulted in the suspension of the game and its eventual rescheduling for Sunday at 5 pm local time.

  • Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 14:37 UTC

    The only real “Summit” in Buenos Aires is hours away

    One half of Argentines will have won the battle of all battles, the derby of all derbies and the other will bite the dust of defeat.

    Fake bomb threats, loose World War II grenades, actual explosions that kill nobody and leave one perpetrator seriously injured at a cemetery, the mayor's entourage becoming 35 percent wealthier on average since in office, airline strikes, and the looming G20 Summit with the most prominent world leaders all in one place, an air traffic ban in addition to land circulation restrictions are just a part of the landscape to the people of Buenos Aires who are becoming more and more used to living in a war-like zone since the beginning of the century.