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Tag: Crisitina Fernandez

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    CFK becomes Justicialist Party Chairwoman

    Argentina should never sign an FTA with th US, CFK insisted

    Former Argentine President (2007-2015) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) Wednesday became chairwoman of the Justicialist (Peronist) Party. In her speech, she called for the formation of political and technical cadres to be part of a national project for the great majorities.

  • Tuesday, December 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Peronist/Kirchnerist leaders discuss unity ahead of next year's mid-terms

    Milei needs to be stopped, the leaders agreed

    Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof and Congressman Máximo Kirchner got together with former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Presidential hopeful Sergio Massa at a residence in Moreno on the outskirts of the country's capital to discuss the future of Peronism / Kirchnerism vis a vis the 2025 mid-term elections. It was their first photo together after the electoral defeat against Javier Milei in 2023.

  • Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Vice-Presidential transition starting Wednesday in Argentina

    Unlike in 2015, CFK is expected to attend the Dec. 10 inauguration

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is to welcome her elected successor Victoria Villarruel Tuesday afternoon to set the transition at the head of the Senate in motion. Villarruel has been highly critical of the former head of state throughout the 2023 campaign.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

    Does Chaco's result herald the demise of Kirchnerism?

    The femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski two weeks before the provincial PASO tipped the scale against Capitanich

    Last Sunday's results in the gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Chaco seem to be heralding new winds of change, as the demise of Peronism and its most recent version -Kirchnerism- appear to be on their way out, according to political analysts in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, March 2nd 2023 - 09:33 UTC

    Argentine President celebrates 40 years of democratic rule

    “We built democracy, we live in freedom, let us achieve equality,” President Fernández said

    During his last Legislature opening speech, Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday lashed out at the country's Judiciary claiming magistrates seek to disenfranchise Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

  • Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:09 UTC

    CFK pushes for universal income for Argentines

    CFK is counting on Lula's return to power to develop her strategies

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been reportedly pressing Economy Minister Silvina Batakis to move forward with a proposal to create the so-called Basic Universal Wage (BUW), as a way out of the current scheme of handouts in the form of endless unemployment subsidies.

  • Friday, July 8th 2022 - 08:28 UTC

    Batakis: Dollars needed from agriculture and from not vacationing abroad

    Batakis also announced there would be no increase in export duties

    Argentina's newly-appointed Economy Minister Silvina Batakis Wednesday insisted the country needed a more efficient agricultural productivity and the ensuing liquidation of assets through the official currency exchange scheme to add to the Treasury's coffers.

  • Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 09:58 UTC

    Argentine president attacks opposition, Judiciary, media and economic powers

    President Fernandez addressing Congress, sitting next to Cristina Kirchner. Photo: Senate Press

    In a defiant speech before the Legislative that launched the campaign for the October midterm elections, Argentine president Alberto Fernandez on Monday opened the 139th Congressional period of ordinary sessions with a barrage of attacks on the opposition, Judiciary, media and the concentrated economic powers.

  • Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

    Argentina: massive protests with display of national flags against government policies

    Government claimed the protests were organized by the opposition and accused some of the leaders of been inspired in hate and even worse promoting contagion. Photo: REUTERS

    Thousands of Argentines flying the national colors on Monday took to the streets across the country's main cities to protest against the government of President Alberto Fernandez and his policies, which after over 200 days of quarantine/isolation have been unable to contain the pandemic, left the economy in shatters and threaten democratic institutions.

  • Friday, February 14th 2020 - 20:46 UTC

    Cristina Fernández/IMF controversy over the Fund's responsibility in Argentina' flight of capital

    “No comments. We Argentines know how to read”, tweeted Cristina Fernandez, where she published some of IMF's charter articles in support of her argument

    Argentine vice-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner insisted in her criticism of the IMF for the alleged violation of its statutes by awarding the previous Argentine administration of president Mauricio Macri a disproportionate credit, despite the fact the Fund rejected the accusation and ratified that no debt shaving is possible under its rules.

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