Tag: Buenos Aires

• Thursday, February 13th 2020 - 10:12 UTC

  IMF mission begins talks in Argentina; Government presented his fiscal plan to Congress

  

  Recession-hit Argentina opened talks on Wednesday with a team from the IMF, seeking relief from what President Alberto Fernandez says is an unsustainable foreign debt. The delegation, led by Julie Kozack and Luis Cubeddu, arrived in Buenos Aires for a week-long visit as left-wing groups staged public protests to demand a suspension of debt payments.

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 09:28 UTC

  Challenging week for the Fernandez administration as the IMF mission arrives in Buenos Aires

  

  A challenging week for the administration of Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and his foreign debt strategy. IMF negotiators land in Buenos Aires this Wednesday for their first mission since Fernandez took office in December. Before agreeing to any changes in the terms, negotiators will want to see Fernandez’s blueprint for tackling more than US$ 320 billion in total debt and for rescuing an economy that’s forecast to shrink for a third straight year.

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Margaret Thatcher’s secret dealings with the Argentine military junta that invaded the Falklands

  

  By Grace Livingstone (*) – Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is often lauded in the UK for standing up to the Argentine military junta during the Falklands War, but declassified British documents show that her government had far more cordial relations with this regime than her wartime rhetoric suggests. The following article was published by Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  “Cristina Fernandez, the most brilliant woman of Argentine history”, praise from Macri's electoral advisor

  

  He was considered the guru of Argentine electoral campaigns, the man who helped Mauricio Macri jump from president of one of the two most popular soccer teams in the country, to twice mayor/governor of the City of Buenos Aires and finally to occupy during four years the Pink House, Casa Rosada, defeating the hegemonic Peronist movement.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday congratulated Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine president said no plans to bail out Buenos Aires province, the richest of the country

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Monday night confirmed that the national government had no plan to bail out Buenos Aires province, which has a payment due later this month on hard-currency provincial debt.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Buenos Aires province US$ 227 million debt payment on Jan 26, a major test for creditors

  

  Argentina's debt talks will face their first big test this month with a US$ 277-million payment due on a Buenos Aires provincial bond, seen as a gauge of how the indebted nation's new government will handle its creditors.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Nisman's death controversy reignited: “there isn't a shred of proof” he was murdered, says president Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday he doubts that a prosecutor who died two days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre committed suicide. But he insisted “there isn't a shred of proof” that Alberto Nisman was murdered, as his family insists.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine president calls for “social responsibility” from business people, otherwise government will intervene

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez called for “social responsibility” from business people demanding they don't increase prices above reasonable levels, since “fighting inflation is a battle that involves all of us”.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentine individuals and corporations hold some 322.3 billion dollars outside the domestic financial system

  

  Argentines ever so suspicious of their currency and so fully confident in the all mighty US dollar, they have some US$ 322 billion hidden in the “mattress”, which means mostly overseas in bonds, shares, real estate, according to the latest figures released by the country's stats office, Indec.