Tag: Néstor Kirchner

• Wednesday, February 15th 2012 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentina on the verge of “unprecedented energy shortage”, say former ministers

  

  Argentina’s Energy Institute, IAE, warned that the country faces an “unprecedented energy crisis” with strong drops in hydrocarbons reserves, production and the loss of self sufficiency.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 19:48 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: One can only hope for a new realistic perspective

  

  This is the seventh of a series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler. John is a former Superintendent of Education and a former Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 21:23 UTC

  ”Cristina Fernandez, the (elected) president with most power in the history of Argentina”

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has more power than Juan Domingo Peron “ever had” and Peronism in Argentina is guarantee of governance, according to Carlos Corach a former Interior minister from former President Carlos Menem administration and a respected solicitor and political analyst.

• Saturday, January 28th 2012 - 07:26 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner, the ‘favourite son’ with ever growing influence in her mother’s administration

  

  The French newspaper Le Monde dedicated last week ample coverage to the son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, Maximo Kirchner, 34, who has a growing influence in her mother’s administration given his double condition as ‘favourite son’ and leader of a youth group La Campora which he founded and is moving full steam ahead.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  In the best Kirchner style: the new cabinet is more continuity than change

  

  Under the heading of “More continuity than change”, Argentine political analyst Rosendo Fraga describes the incoming cabinet of re-elected president Cristina Fernandez as something very much in the style of the Kirchner.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 04:02 UTC

  Argentina new cabinet minister, a political scientist from Peronist nomenclature

  

  Argentina’s new cabinet chief and former Media Secretary of the Executive, Juan Manuel Abal Medina, 43, besides his own proven merits carries an illustrious name in the Peronist nomenclature.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:00 UTC

  CFK moved to tears on receiving picture of her husband painted by Chavez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández signed on Thursday nineteen cooperation agreements in different fields with her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF denies Argentine court info on how to calculate inflation: “files are inviolable”

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) avoided replying to an inquiry required by Argentine Judge Alejandro Catania, who handles the case of the lawsuit filed by the Domestic Trade Secretariat against private consulting agencies.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 16:46 UTC

  Labour leader reminds CFK that the ‘profit sharing bill’ is still pending approval

  

  The head of the Argentina’s powerful CGT labour confederation renewed his claims for the approval of the profit sharing bill to allow workers to be part of the businesses’ profits, during a rally to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Néstor Kirchner.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 23:13 UTC

  CFK opens huge mausoleum on first anniversary of her late husband death

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, attended Thursday a small private ceremony at the Río Gallegos cemetery (Santa Cruz province) and paid tribute to her late husband and former president, Néstor Carlos Kirchner, on the first anniversary of his death.