Tag: Crisitina Fernandez

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  Nisman's ex-wife, fearing for her family, drops out of lawsuit into the death of her former husband

  

  Argentine federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex-wife of the late AMIA Jewish center prosecutor Alberto Nisman, removed herself from a lawsuit that prompted an investigation into the death of her former husband.

• Monday, August 13th 2018 - 10:09 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez testifies on the “K notebooks” corruption scheme

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez has called on her followers not to accompany her when, this Monday, she gives testimony at the Court House before Judge Claudio Bonadío in relation to the so called “K notebooks”.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 10:35 UTC

  One in three Argentines, 8.8 million live in poverty and 1.7 million are indigent

  

  Nearly one-third of Argentina’s population lives in poverty, the government said on Wednesday in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Mauricio Macri’s stated “zero poverty” goal. The ranks of the poor surveyed in Argentina totaled 8.8 million people, or 32.2% of the population in 31 urban areas surveyed.

• Monday, September 21st 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez attends Havana mass and meets with Pope Francis

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández took part in Pope Francis' Sunday's mass from Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion, as she watched the pontiff in the company of her Cuban counterpart Raul Castro. Sitting next to the Cuban president, CFK followed Francis' services as he called for society to “protect the most fragile,” in a service witnessed by more than 100,000 worshippers at the Havana landmark.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 03:28 UTC

  FAO conference to recognize efforts in lowering hunger and elect Director General

  

  Some 130 ministers, 12 heads of state or government, including presidents from Argentina and Chile, Cristina Fernandez and Michelle Bachelet, plus numerous other high-level government representatives will be converging on Rome this week for the 39th session of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) governing Conference (6-13 June).

• Sunday, May 24th 2015 - 08:13 UTC

  Obama and Putin congratulate Cristina Fernandez and Argentina on 25 May, National Day

  

  US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have sent letters to President Cristina Fernández to salute the head of state and congratulate the Argentine people on the anniversary of the May Revolution.

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez leaves for Russia in the midst of energy controversy

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is leaving this week for an official visit to Russia and controversy over the agreements to be signed has erupted following the publication of a letter in a Sunday newspaper signed by a group of former Energy secretaries who claim the accords compromise Argentina with a foreign country in the execution of highly costly works, like it was done with China”.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:29 UTC

  Controversy over Argentine ambassador accounts, dismissed by US bank

  

  Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Nilda Garre denied having accounts neither in the CNB Bank nor in the Felton Bank, saying the US-based entity had written proof that there were no accounts under her name there.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro refers ironically to Foreign Office summons

  

  Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro complained about being summoned to the Foreign Office over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute revealing she asked the British official if it was “an expression of British humor or a political paradox”, since the UK has failed to comply with international law for the last five decades.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

  Pro and against Kirchner rallies on 29th anniversary of 1976 military coup

  

  Human rights, political and social organizations commemorated on Tuesday 24 March the 29th anniversary of the military dictatorship that killed anywhere from 9.000 to 30,000 people, marking the beginning of one the darkest period in Argentina's modern history.