Tag: Alberto Fernandez

Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:49 UTC
Argentina takes over the Mercosur chair for six months next 16 December

Uruguay will hand to Argentina next 16 December the pro tempore chair of the South American trade bloc Mercosur. The ceremony as happened six months before with Paraguay will be virtual given the coronavirus pandemic, according to a release from the Uruguayan Executive Office.
Friday, December 11th 2020 - 23:47 UTC
Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine; President Fernandez will receive first shot

Argentina said it has secured doses to begin administering Russia’s Sputnik vaccine before year-end and President Alberto Fernandez will be the first to take it. The government is planning to give the shot to 10 million vulnerable Argentines before March, Fernandez said.
Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:45 UTC
Imaginative Argentine minister almost spoils first video phone dialogue between Biden and Fernandez

Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá was involved in an incident which would have normally demanded his resignation or sacking, because he misinterpreted or simply invented the issues of a conversation between president elect Joe Biden and his Argentine peer, Alberto Fernandez triggering a serious diplomatic misunderstanding in a most delicate moment.
Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 21:20 UTC
Maradona: Three days of mourning and state funeral at Casa Rosada

Considered one of the greatest football players in recent times, Diego Maradona the World Cup-winning legend passed away from a heart attack aged 60 on Wednesday as he recovered from surgery for a blood clot on the brain.
Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 20:48 UTC
Argentina's football star, Diego Maradona, has died at the age of 60

Diego Armando Maradona, an ex-football player and idol for many Argentines and fans around the world, has died on Wednesday at the age of 60 from a heart attack at his home in Tigre, Buenos Aires. His funeral will take place at the government house, Casa Rosada, and will begin tomorrow, Argentine media informed.
Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentine president visits his Uruguayan peer for barbecue and a “relaxed meeting”

The Argentine president Alberto Fernández made a surprise visit to Uruguay on Thursday to meet his peer Luis Lacalle Pou, with whom they shared a barbecue and according to both leaders addressed bilateral and regional affairs with special emphasis on trade prospects such as the Mercosur/EU trade agreement.
Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 09:17 UTC
President Fernandez sends to Congress a bill legalizing abortion

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced on Tuesday he was sending a new bill on legalizing abortion to Congress, re-opening a debate that has bitterly divided the traditionally Catholic nation.
Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Argentine president and several ministers under preventive isolation after an official tested Covid-19 positive

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, and several of his ministers began preventative isolation after coming in close contact with an official infected with coronavirus, the government said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Pfizer vaccines for Argentina should be arriving in December, president Fernandez

Argentina President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday his country could receive 750,000 doses of an eventual coronavirus vaccine from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc in December, a glimmer of hope as cases in the South American nation show signs of receding following months of quarantine.
Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Members of the Malvinas Council appointed on the flag anniversary

The Argentine government announced on Thursday some of the names that will be sitting at the National Council on Issues Relative to the Malvinas, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, as passed unanimously by the Argentine congress last August.