Tag: Argentina

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Argentine Justice shrugs off impeachment threat: “I'm used to this kind of attacks”

  

  Argentina's Justice Carlos Fayt, the oldest member of the Supreme Court (97) and questioned by the government of president Cristina Fernandez, which demands evidence of his health and mental conditions, has said through his lawyer, Jorge Rizzo that he is not concerned about a possible impeachment hearing raised against him, since 'he is used to this kind of attacks'.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil wants to review Mercosur 'liberty' rules; sends strong public message to Argentina

  

  Brazil has proposed reviewing Mercosur rules so that its members can enjoy more 'liberty' to negotiate trade agreements with other blocks or third parties, because even when “Mercosur is an indissoluble marriage, this does mean that relations can't be discussed” and thus a 'different speeds' group should not be discarded.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 05:22 UTC

  US for third year running main wheat supplier for Brazil displacing Argentina

  

  For a third year in a row the United States will be the top wheat supplier for Brazil, displacing Argentina from its historic position, according to the latest release from Brazilian consultancy Trigo & Farinhas. This piece of information is significant given the world prices for grains and wheat planting prospects in South America.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentine S. Court ratifies Chief Justice; Cristina Fernandez wants to impeach a second Justice

  

  In another chapter of the ongoing dispute between Argentine president Cristina Fernández and a non-submissive Judiciary, the country's Supreme Court issued a statement on Tuesday ratifying Ricardo Lorenzetti as Chief Justice for three more years starting in 2016, following versions that he was pushing to leave the SC on yet unclear “moral fatigue” grounds.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:35 UTC

  Mujica admits his 'most intimate respect' for Cristina Fernandez, but...

  

  Uruguayan former president Jose Mujica expressed in Buenos Aires his “most intimate respect” for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and revealed that on occasions he came across her when “she was annoyed as a bad, cornered spider”.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wins a battle on her ongoing attack on the non submissive Judiciary

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her followers might be having a rough time in the current round of local elections and primaries leading to the presidential vote next October, but her infighting skills remain intact: on her ongoing battle with the Judiciary branch she managed to put in check the Supreme Court.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:19 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas claim: “Argentina following on Ghandi's teachings”

  

  Argentina is following on Mahatma Gandhi's teachings or ahimsa (truth, love and fraternity) that brought independence to India, to claim the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands, said Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas Issues Desk in the Argentine foreign ministry during his latest incursion this time in Ethiopia.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentine central bank president contracts wife and son; blames lobbies for releasing the news

  

  Argentina's central bank president Alejandro Vanoli strongly defended the recent contracting of his wife and son in the bank, arguing they are 'well trained' for the jobs and blamed local speculative financial groups of being behind the news which was published in the Buenos Aires media.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Tax free imported vehicles for residents from Kirchner's Santa Cruz province

  

  Argentine residents from the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, the Kirchner family political stronghold, will be allowed to buy imported cars free of federal taxes, according to the latest resolution 31/2015, signed by president Cristina Fernandez and published in the official Gazette.

• Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Leading Argentine economist says that we must admit “IMF is incorrigible”

  

  Economist Aldo Ferrer has said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “incorrigible”, questioning the report the multilateral credit organism released this week saying Argentina should devalue on its peso currency and carry out austerity policies to get back on the track of growth.