Tag: Alberto Fernandez

• Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina continues talks but moves forward plans for debt restructuring

  

  Argentina will continue talks this week and next with creditors over restructuring its US$ 83 billion in foreign debt, Economy Minister Martin Guzman said after the country missed the March 31 deadline it had set previously.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 12:58 UTC

  Foreign debt must wait: “the pandemic and Argentines' health are priorities”

  

  Honoring foreign debt will have to wait because given the coronavirus pandemic priority is now the health of the Argentines, said president Alberto Fernandez on Monday, adding he would not let local companies fire o declare workers redundant.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 12:45 UTC

  Argentina expected to make a symbolic US$ 225 million interest payment

  

  Argentina will layout “guideposts” this week for a restructuring of its nearly US$70 billion in foreign debt, but the country is not yet ready to make a formal proposal to creditors, according to political sources in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, March 30th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentina satisfied with pandemic quarantine results, extends the circulation ban until 12 April

  

  Mandatory quarantine measures that permit citizens to leave their homes only for essential reasons will remain in place in Argentina until April 12, President Alberto Fernandez announced on Sunday.

• Friday, March 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina: mandatory quarantine and everybody must remain at home until March 31st

  

  Argentina declared a mandatory preventive social isolation extensive to the whole country beginning midnight Friday until March 31st to mitigate the spread of Covid 19. President Alberto Fernandez made the announcement on national broadcast and standing with him were the leaders of the main political parties.

• Monday, March 16th 2020 - 11:20 UTC

  Coronavirus: Argentina closes borders for 15 days and suspends classes until March 31

  

  Argentina will close its borders for 15 days to non-residents in order to combat the spread of coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez announced on Sunday. Public and private school classes would also be suspended until March 31, Fernandez said. National parks would also be closed.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 18:01 UTC

  Argentina ready to begin restructuring of US$ 70bn in foreign law bonds

  

  Argentina will revamp as much as US$ 68.8 billion in foreign law bonds as it restructures its debt, the government said in a decree on Tuesday, paving the way for tense negotiations as the country looks to strike a deal with creditors this month.

• Friday, March 6th 2020 - 11:00 UTC

  IMF has held “productive talks” in Buenos Aires and leaves this Friday

  

  An International Monetary Fund team currently in Argentina has held “productive” talks with local officials, a spokesman said on Thursday, though there was little detail on concrete progress about reaching a deal over the country’s debt crisis.

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 12:24 UTC

  Reedition of Kirchner's aggressive policy towards Falklands announced by Alberto Fernandez

  

  The Kirchnerite government headed by president Alberto Fernandez announced on Sunday, at the opening of the 138th congressional session, the new focus of the Malvinas Islands/Antarctica policy which will emphasize the sovereignty claim over the South Atlantic Islands, particularly the Falklands, and sanction those fishing companies operating in the area.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine president Fernandez announces meeting with his Uruguayan peer Lacalle Pou

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez held a very positive phone conversation on Wednesday with Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou during which they analyzed the bilateral relation and the regional integration agenda.