Tag: Carlos Reutemann

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 21:49 UTC

  Argentine Senator and former car racer Carlos Reutemann dies, aged 79

  

  Argentine politician and former Formula One car racing driver Carlos Alberto Reutemann has passed away Wednesday at the age of 79 in his native city of Santa Fe.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 07:06 UTC

  Kirchnerite Senate majority approves whitewashing bill; next week in the Lower House

  

  The Argentine government sponsored whitewashing or ‘tax amnesty’ bill received half approval on Wednesday when the Senate passed the initiative by 39 to 28 votes, a bill which the opposition has labelled ‘immoral’. After seven hours of debate and over twenty speakers the line was clearly drawn between the Kirchnerite group and its allies and the rest of the House.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 14:51 UTC

  Majority of Argentines believe Cristina Fernandez is losing control of government

  

  A majority of Argentines disapproves of President Cristina Fernandez but more significantly 40% believe she is losing control of her administration and another 20% consider it a fact, according to Sergio Berenztein from the respected pollster Poliarquía.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 06:22 UTC

  President Cristina Fernandez “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”

  

  A respected reference in Argentine politics, Senator Carlos Reutemann came out strongly this week in support of farmers saying that the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, (CFK), “disregards and looks down on the rural sector”.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  Reutemann says CFK will seek re-election and downplays clashes with organized labour

  

  A leading and respected Argentine Senator forecasted he is certain that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be seeking re-election in the October presidential elections, and assured that her recent clash with the organized labour CGT unions’ umbrella are “nothing but mere disagreements.”

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  When the Kirchners are over, Argentina will be a “minefield not a country”

  

  According to new Wikileaks cables unveiled by Spanish daily El Pais, Argetnina’s former Santa Fe governor Carlos Reutemann told US diplomats that “whoever comes after the Kirchner administrations will inherit a mine field” instead of a country.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:13 UTC

  Disappearance of Kirchner further splits Argentina’s main opposition group

  

  Argentina’s main opposition group the so called “Federal Peronism”, dissidents from the ruling movement admitted going through a serious “crisis” because of the diverging opinions amongst its leaders, several of them 2011 presidential hopefuls.