Argentina

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 19:00 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez in ‘good mood’; successful surgery, 30 to 45 days convalescence

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez ‘surgery has been satisfactory and is recovering favourably’ announced early Tuesday afternoon presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro addressing the media and pro-government supporters outside the Fundación Favaloro clinic in Buenos Aires

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:24 UTC

  Zanini, admirer of Mao’s China, the strongman in absence of Cristina Fernandez

  

  His nickname is ‘El chino’ (the Chinese) because of his strong Maoist tendencies when a law student. Long a solicitor, Carlos Zanini is Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (and of her deceased husband Nestor Kirchner) most trusted aide and top of the Kirchnerite ‘nomenclature’.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands sent their well-wishes to President Cristina Fernandez

  

  The Falkland Islands joined the thousands of well-wishers supporting Argentine president Cristina Fernandez who is facing a complicated medical condition and on Tuesday will undergo surgery to extract a blood clot in the cranium.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:54 UTC

  Boudou riding a Harley Davidson in Brasilia while Cristina faced serious medical condition

  

  “While Cristina has to step down, he’s riding a motorbike” printed in the front page one of Brazil’s leading newspapers O Estado de Sao Paulo that caught Argentine Vice-president and now acting president a few hours before he was called back to Buenos Aires because of Cristina Fernandez medical condition.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Boudou: “The worst negative image of the Cristina Fernandez administration”

  

  Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou has “the worst negative image” of the Argentine government, according to a leading pollster in Buenos Aires. Mariel Fornoni from Management & Fit made the statement only hours before Boudou, and according to Article 88 of the Constitution, signed as acting president for thirty days during the medical absence of Cristina Fernandez.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes surgery to remove clot; doctors consider operation ‘low-risk’

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez (60) will undergo surgery on Tuesday morning to remove an accumulation of blood in her skull (subdural haematoma) following a blow in early August, according to a statement issued by the hospital where she is being treated.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Boudou is Argentine caretaker president but power remains in Cristina’s inner circle

  

  “There are no uncertainties or any weird things here, we just have to keep up with the performance”, said Argentine Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou speaking on Monday from Government House a few hours after signing to replace Cristina Fernandez for thirty days while the head of state undergoes cranium surgery and a recovery period.

• Monday, October 7th 2013 - 15:42 UTC

  Breathing space for Argentina’s bonds case: litigation continues at US appeals court level

  

  The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling that may force Argentina to make payments on defaulted government bonds, rejecting that country’s appeal in a clash that has roiled its financial markets. The justices, without comment, on Monday let stand a 2012 U.S. appeals court decision that bars Argentina from making payments on 24 billion in restructured debt unless it also pays owners of the earlier repudiated bonds.

• Sunday, October 6th 2013 - 07:01 UTC

  UPM conflict: Argentine protestors will not be allowed to cross to Uruguay, warn officials

  

  Residents from Gualeguaychú, Argentina confirmed that on Sunday they will attempt crossing an international bridge to Uruguay to protest the production expansion of the pulp mill Botnia/UPM, authorized by the government of President Jose Mujica. This despite the fact Uruguayan officials anticipated that at the most “eight or nine” Argentine officials and representatives from the protestors will be allowed to meet with their Uruguayan counterparts to discuss the situation.

• Sunday, October 6th 2013 - 06:31 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez prescribed 30 days medical rest, until after mid-term election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández was diagnosed “chronic subdural collection” and prescribed one month of rest after suffering cardiac arrhythmia, according to the official release from Government House on Saturday. Vice President Amado Boudou will manage the Cabinet for the upcoming 30 days.