Tag: Alberto Fernandez

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 20:52 UTC

  IMF meets Argentine opposition leader: “constructive talks”, but the Fund is blamed for the current situation

  

  A team from the International Monetary Fund met on Monday with opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez, the front-runner for October's presidential election, according to a spokesman for Fernandez.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 18:07 UTC

  IMF mission in Argentina looking into the books and trying to sort out the future

  

  An IMF mission is in Argentina and is going over the country's accounts with government top officials, to assess future disbursements of the US$ 57bn standby credit granted to the country, currently facing financial and political uncertainty, and on Monday are scheduled to meet with representatives from the opposition.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  IMF mission arrives to Argentina this Saturday: US$ 5.3bn disbursement to be considered

  

  Delegates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) land in Buenos Aires Saturday as concerns about Argentina’s economy cast doubt upon the future of its record US$56 billion bailouts. The date of the trip was agreed with the Argentine central bank chairman, Guido Sandleris.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Opposition candidate pledges to respect Argentina's debts and rejects defaulting

  

  Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernández said on Thursday that no one wants a default for the country and he's ruling it out if elected. The center-left candidate appeared to be trying to calm investors who reacted to his strong finish against conservative President Mauricio Macri in an initial round of voting by battering Argentina's stocks and currency.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine presidential candidate Fernandez favors the Mexico/Uruguay position in the Venezuela conflict

  

  Argentine presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez said on Tuesday that if he wins the October election he would join Mexico and Uruguay in promoting dialogue with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner leads call to free ex Brazil president Lula da Silva

  

  Presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez and running-mate Cristina Kirchner led calls by dozens of Argentine personalities on Tuesday to free Brazil's jailed leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Human rights activists, lawmakers, trade unionists, artists and scientists signed a petition published in the left-leaning Pagina 12 daily.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Alberto Fernández is like a matryoshka doll, “you open it and out pops, Cristina, Lula, Chavez...”

  

  Argentine primary winner, Alberto Fernandez is like the Russian mamushka doll, “you open it and out pops Cristina Fernandez, again you open it and out pops Lula, and again, Hugo Chavez”, said Brazilian foreign minister Ernesto Araújo.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  Francis involvement in Argentine politics, is “an idea belonging to science fiction”

  

  A bishop had denied point-blank any involvement of Pope Francis in Argentine politics, following on August 11 presidential primaries, which have quashed President Mauricio Macri's reelection aspirations, increasing opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez chances of taking office next 10 December, while Latin America's third economy was driven into financial chaos as the word default creeps intensely as a possibility in the near future.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Fernandez wants to renegotiate IMF loan terms, in current conditions Argentina can't repay its debts

  

  Opposition candidate, Alberto Fernandez, said that Argentina would struggle under present conditions to repay a loan to the International Monetary Fund and he would seek to renegotiate the repayment terms, according to an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper Clarin.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:53 UTC

  Dollar volatility in Argentina eases in line with political dialogue

  

  Argentine markets bucked the dismal three-day losing streak on Thursday, amid signs of political compromise and a new central bank measure to prop up the embattled currency.