Tag: Argentina

• Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Peronism is back in Argentina: Alberto Fernández assumes as President

  

  Peronism will return to power in Argentina from Tuesday. The political force will do it in the hands of the elected President, Alberto Fernández, who will go to the Casa Rosada, the presidential headquarters, at noon after presenting the oath in the Congress to the outgoing vice president, Gabriela Michetti

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Brazil will send no delegate to Argentine president Fernandez inauguration, media reports

  

  Brazil’s government scrapped plans to send a delegate to Alberto Fernandez’s inauguration ceremony in Argentina, representing an escalation in tensions between South America’s top economies.

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Macri and Fernandez embrace, for a few seconds, at the Lujan Basilica

  

  Outgoing Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his successor Alberto Fernandez embraced for a few seconds on Sunday at the Lujan Basilica, the country's main sanctuary to the Virgin Mary. The gesture was minimum and a few seconds but it was done on request from the Catholic Church.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Fernandez unveils his cabinet and heterodox economic team with a growth led recovery plan

  

  Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez unveiled his cabinet and new central bank chief on Friday evening, laying out his core team days before the center-left leader takes office facing a stalled economy, rising debt fears and painful inflation.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Future Argentine economy minister is US trained and an academic expert in sovereign debt

  

  Argentina’s Martin Guzman, a whiz-kid economist with close ties to influential U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz, will bring a sharp academic intellect but little policy-making experience to the daunting task of reviving Latin America’s third-largest economy and averting a damaging default.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Next Argentine agriculture minister sets warning alarms among farmers

  

  The next agriculture, livestock and fisheries minister of Argentina, as anticipated by MercoPress, will be Luis Basterra, president-elect Alberto Fernandez confirmed on Friday, an appointment met with some scepticism by farmers worried about a possible revival of interventionist policies.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina formally requests to exhume a collective grave at the military cemetery in the Falklands

  

  The Argentine government has formally requested the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, for an expansion of the humanitarian project which has helped so far to identify the remains of 115 Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine Military Cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls on Mercosur for a quick implementation of the trade agreement with the EU

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that Mercosur trade block needs to hurry up and implement agreements the group has negotiated.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Fernandez sends friendly message to Bolsonaro; confirms Solá as foreign minister

  

  Argentine president elect Alberto Fernandez confirmed Felipe Solá as his foreign minister and Daniel Scioli as ambassador in Brazil, following a meeting with a delegation of Brazilian lawmakers at his Buenos Aires headquarters. The Brazilian delegation was headed by the Lower House president, Rodrigo Maia.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina: Surveys indicate 40.8% of the population lives below the poverty line

  

  A third of Argentine homes and 40.8% of people were below the poverty line at the end of the third quarter according to the Social Debt Observatory from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, which regularly releases the data.