Tag: Néstor Kirchner

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 19:01 UTC

  For The Economist, Kirchner’s death represents “The end of an era”

  

  With the passing of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, The Economist forecasts “the end of an era”. The president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is widowed, politically as well as personally, so what happens now, asks The Economist.

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  After two days of spontaneous popular support Kirchner is laid to rest in Rio Gallegos

  

  The coffin carrying the remains of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was buried late Friday at the family’s pantheon in his home town of Rio Gallegos in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, where he died last Wednesday following a massive heart attack.

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s name sounds strongly as next Unasur secretary general

  

  Following the death of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, the Union of South American Nations, Unasur must find a new consensus leader and the outstanding figure and possible candidate is Brazilian president Lula da Silva recognized as a great promoter of regional integration.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2010 - 14:37 UTC

  Argentina’s most powerful political leader dies in Patagonia

  

  Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner (2003/2007), the current president's husband and one of the country's most powerful politicians, died early Wednesday, confirmed state television.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 05:07 UTC

  Unasur chairman Kirchner condemns FARC and its ‘pre-Cold War’ attitude

  

  UNASUR (Union of South American nations) Secretary General Nestor Kirchner currently in New York with the Argentine delegation for the United Nations General Assembly, said that the Colombian guerrilla FARC “are so back in time, that they are even far behind the Cold War”

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 03:49 UTC

  Former president Kirchner leaves hospital and recovering satisfactorily

  

  Former Argentine president left Los Arcos hospital Sunday a few minutes after 20:00 hours next to his wife President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. A presidential press officer said the Argentine leader would be leaving at 23:00 hours given the “satisfactory evolution” of the emergency angioplasty he underwent Saturday night.

• Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Ex Argentine president Kirchner undergoes emergency angioplasty

  

  Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner is back in the Los Arcos hospital with heart trouble. There were no immediate announcements from the government, but according to the local Noticias Argentinas news agency, the husband of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Fernandez underwent an angioplasty after he was rushed to a clinic in the capital late Saturday night with numbness in his legs.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:52 UTC

  Kirchner praises Chilean Senate approval of Unasur Constitutive Treaty

  

  Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary-General, Néstor Kirchner, celebrated the Chilean Senate's approval of the regional organization's Constitutive Treaty and highlighted the “compromise” of Chile with the “unity of South America.”

• Tuesday, September 7th 2010 - 05:06 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner, puppet of her raging husband

  

  Life in the pink palace of Argentina's ruling couple is no bed of roses, says a new biography of President Cristina Kirchner. It portrays her as the puppet of an authoritarian husband who once punched her in the face for defying his will.

• Sunday, August 22nd 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  The Economist on Argentina's economy: happy-go-lucky Cristina

  

  Earlier this year, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s president, proffered some advice to European governments facing recession and market panic. Its essence was “stuff the IMF and carry on spending.” It is what she and her predecessor and husband, Néstor Kirchner, have practiced since 2003. Argentina is one of only a handful of countries that refuse all dealings with the IMF. Almost a decade after it defaulted on $90 billion of debt when its economy collapsed, it still has few financial ties with the world and very little bank credit. Yet contrary to repeated forecasts of doom from orthodox economists, the economy is roaring.