Tag: Alberto Fernandez

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina extends debt negotiations deadline to 12 June: “adjustment margin remains thin”

  

  Argentina extended the deadline to negotiate with its creditors to June 12 and may sweeten its most recent restructuring offer, the country said on Monday, after a previous proposal was deemed insufficient by some investors.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Prosecutors open investigations into allegations ex president Macri spied on political opponents

  

  Prosecutors in Argentina have opened an investigation into allegations that former president Mauricio Macri spied on political opponents during his four years in office, judicial sources reported on Friday.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina in “technical default” while negotiations with sovereign bondholders continue

  

  Argentina “technically” defaulted on Friday for the second time this century after failing to pay US$505 million of interest on its bond debt, but it continues to negotiate a restructuring with creditors. “We're not paying but the negotiations are continuing,” a government official said.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  IMF optimistic Argentina and creditors can reach an agreement

  

  The International Monetary Fund expressed optimism that Argentina can reach an agreement with private creditors “to establish a sustainable path in the future” when the government of President Alberto Fernandez formally extended the deadline term to reach an understanding on the US$ 67 billion debt.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina expected to make official the extension of debt offer deadline

  

  Argentina is preparing to extend the deadline to its debt offer to May 22. The government will publish an extension to its debt offer in the official Gazette this Monday, part of President Alberto Fernandez’s next steps in its debt restructuring after extending a deadline over the weekend for creditors to accept an initial offer to exchange $65 billion in overseas bonds.

• Saturday, May 9th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentina extends mandatory lockdown in Buenos Aires and metropolitan area

  

  After 50 days in mandatory lockdown, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández announced on Friday that the quarantine will be extended until May 24th.

• Saturday, May 9th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina open to proposals from bondholders: default deadline stands at 22 May

  

  Argentina will keep pushing for talks with creditors even as a deadline for its US$ 65 billion debt restructuring proposal passed on Friday with little sign it had the support needed from international bondholders to unlock a comprehensive deal. Apparently on averaged less than 20% of bondholders accepted Argentina's conditions

• Friday, May 1st 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Pot banging in Argentina to protest release of inmates; government argues it is to slow spread of COVID-19

  

  Argentines staged loud protests in Buenos Aires and most large cities on Thursday evening, banging pots from balconies, and later applauding, in a show of opposition to the government's release of prisoners, allegedly to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina presidents discuss the future of Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou and his Argentine peer, Alberto Fernandez held a half-hour video conference Tuesday mid-morning to address the recent decision by the current Argentine administration to freeze Mercosur free trade negotiations with potential new partners and instead concentrate efforts in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and its sanitary, social, economic and employment consequences.