Tag: Crisitina Fernandez

• Monday, September 9th 2013 - 02:29 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez now refers to the IMF chief as “Madame (Christine) Lagarde”

  

  IMF Managing Director ‘Madame (Christine) Lagarde’ had words of support for Argentina’s position in the dispute with ‘vulture’ (hedge) funds during an informal encounter with Argentine officials on the sidelines of the recent G20 summit in Russia.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2013 - 02:19 UTC

  LAN appeals hangar eviction in Buenos Aires airport; unions pledge strike in support of Chilean carrier

  

  Lan Chile went to court in Argentina on Monday to appeal its eviction from a hangar at the metropolitan Buenos Aires Aeroparque airport, which is a crucial element of its national and regional operations. Several unions have anticipated that if the eviction is not stopped they will go on strike and interrupt domestic flights.

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 03:30 UTC

  Malvinas alleged ‘militarization’ again the obsession of Cristina Fernandez at anti-nuclear conference

  

  During an anti-nuclear weapon conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Cristina Fernández criticised the right to veto used by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council which she described as an “out of time” instrument and again attacked the UK for ‘sending nuclear submarines’ to the Falkland Islands and called for a region of peace in the South Atlantic.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:54 UTC

  Protests and pot banging against Cristina Fernandez administration in Buenos Aires

  

  Protesters gathered around Buenos Aires obelisk and other neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires City to participate in a new protest against the administration of Argentine president Cristina Fernández, forty eight hours ahead of primary elections.

• Saturday, July 13th 2013 - 13:28 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez admits few European countries are a flying option for her

  

  President Cristina Fernandez revealed during the Mercosur summit in Uruguay on Friday that as a result of the judicial dispute between Argentina and the hedge funds, a few countries in Europe are not a flying option for her.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 10:08 UTC

  Brazil furious with Cristina Fernandez non-kept promises freezes relation

  

  Brazil has virtually frozen political and economic relations with Argentina following serious discrepancies that were confirmed during the recent summit of presidents Cristina Fernandez with Dilma Rousseff who cut short the originally scheduled two-day visit to Buenos Aires.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wins slander case in Rome: she did not go on a shopping spree

  

  President Cristina Fernández said she would like to see “some more justice in Argentina” after referring to a court case she won against an Italian newspaper which in 2008 claimed that while in Rome she went on an extravagant shopping spree: “Hunger and dolce vita in Rome”.

• Monday, April 22nd 2013 - 08:13 UTC

  More praise from Mujica to Cristina Fernandez stubbornness and determination

  

  President José Mujica said Uruguay “must always talk and maintain close relations with Argentina” following the recent controversy that flared up when he was caught by an open microphone calling Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez “the old lady” and her deceased husband Néstor Kirchner “the one-eyed.”

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  Mujica ‘deepest apologies’ to Cristina Fernandez for the ‘coarse, jail-language’

  

  “My deepest apologies to those whom I might have hurt with my words in recent days” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in his daily broadcast on Thursday, the first public apology for the controversial expressions he used last week to refer to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 20:14 UTC

  Cameron, ‘the most robust PM in the Falklands’ issue in the last 30 years’, says Professor Dodds

  

  Britain went to war over the Falkland Islands over thirty years ago when the Argentine military invaded the Islands, but the issue of sovereignty disputed by Argentina has never really gone away. Germany’s Deutsche Welle looks at the current UK government's policy towards the Falklands and the coming referendum, in an interview with Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.