Tag: Amado Boudou

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:51 UTC

  Argentine government authorizes the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat

  

  Argentina's government authorized this week the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat as farmers advance with early plantings, officials said.

• Monday, May 28th 2012 - 01:22 UTC

  Argentina thanks Bolivia for its standing support to the Malvinas sovereignty

  

  Argentine vice-president Amado Boudou publicity thanked Bolivia for its standing and unyielding support to Argentina’s claims over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:05 UTC

  Argentina has a Jewish president for two days, Beatriz Rojkes

  

  For the first time, Argentina has a Jewish president, at least temporarily. Beatriz Rojkes, the provisional president of the Argentine Senate, is in charge of the government for several days because both President Christina Fernandez and Vice-President Amado Boudou are overseas.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Argentina insists before Red Cross on identifying remains of combatants buried in the Falklands

  

  Vice President Amado Boudou called for a ‘concrete reply’ to Argentina’s request for the International Red Cross to collaborate with the identification of the combatants fallen during the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982 and whose remains are buried at the cemetery in Darwin.

• Tuesday, May 15th 2012 - 08:35 UTC

  Argentine Vice-president and business partners charged with embezzlement

  

  Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou, his girlfriend the journalist Agustina Kampfer, his personal friend and business partner José María Nuñez Carmona, and the Belgian citizen and businessman Alejandro Vandenbroele, were charged on Monday of embezzlement by Federal Prosecutor Jorge Di Lello.

• Tuesday, May 15th 2012 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentina’s top journalists demand “we want to ask” and list the ten issues ‘banned’ by CFK

  

  Tens of leading Argentine journalists gathered in Buenos Aires in a television program where each of them was invited to make public what question they would like to ask President Cristina Fernandez in obvious reference to the difficulties to have access to the Argentine head of state and her very limited contact with the press.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentine Vice President, in Washington, invited US oil companies to invest in YPF

  

  Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou on Tuesday urged US companies to invest in YPF, the nationalized oil company that Argentina recently expropriated from Spain's Repsol.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentina’s Prosecutor General resigns, looses first round to Vice-president Boudou

  

  Argentina’s Prosecutor-general Esteban Righi officially resigned to his post on Tuesday, following Vice-President Amado Boudou’s decision to press charges against the prosecutor leading the investigation into the politician's role in the Ciccone currency printing company investigation.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  Argentine government in full force support Vice-president accused of embezzlement

  

  The Argentine government came out in full force over the weekend to back Vice-President Amado Boudou after he was accused of embezzlement in what become known as the “Ciccone Case”.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  Union leader defies Cristina Fernandez: Moyano fears nobody and only bends before God

  

  The head of Argentina’s organized labour confederation, CGT, Hugo Moyano, asked the Government of President Cristina Fernandez to say whether they are going to accept their demands included in the collective bargaining talks or not, after warning that he “fears nobody” and that he only “bends before God.”