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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 04:43 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentina: Máximo Kirchner resigns as Lower House majority leader

    President Fernández said CFK did not approve of her son's decision

    The recent deal between the Argentine Government of President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is taking its toll on the country's political leadership front after Lower House Majority Leader Máximo Kirchner announced Monday he would resign that position.

  • Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

    Chávez's daughter praises CFK in Tegucigalpa

    It is not easy to be a female President, CFK said

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and María Gabriela Chávez Contreras, daughter of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez Frías, met Wednesday at the National University of Honduras, where the former Argentine head of state delivered a speech under the title “Peoples always return”.

  • Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

    Nisman was a special prosecutor appointed to try to establish the alleged connection of Iran in two bomb attacks against Israelite targets in Buenos Aires

    On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.

  • Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

    Argentina will not jeopardize growth, president says

    “Argentina is a symbol of human rights throughout the world,” Alberto Fernández said

    President Alberto Fernández Friday said his country will not accept any imposition which may put growth at risk when negotiating with foreign creditors. The Argentine head of state made those remarks from a stage in front of Casa Rosada he shared with former Presidents José Mujica of Uruguay, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of Brazil and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's current Vice President.

  • Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

    Lula to appear at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires this week

    Like Cristina, Lula has also been persecuted by the judges, Máximo Kirchner said

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva will attend celebrations in Buenos Aires on Dec. 10 marking a new anniversary of the return to democratic rule, which was announced in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

    CFK acquitted in corruption cases: Operations were legit, judges said

    No crimes committed, said the judges

    Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her children will not be tried in the so-called Hotesur so-scandal case because there were no illegal actions involved, a federal court in Buenos Aires ruled Friday. Hence, all charges have been dismissed.

  • Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:29 UTC

    Florencio Randazzo makes it to the House after edging Libertarian candidate

    Randazzo was Interior Minister under CFK

    Former Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo finally made it through to the House of Deputies on his own Vamos con Vos front after the final vote count ended up granting him the votes he needed to snatch the seat from the Libertarians, who had already secured victories for José Luis Espert and Carolina Piparo.

  • Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 22:50 UTC

    Argentine surrealism: turning a major defeat into a victory celebration

    President Alberto Fernández wants to fill Plaza de Mayo to celebrate “victory”

    “On Wednesday, I'm inviting you to celebrate this great triumph by filling the Plaza de Mayo with militants,” Argentine president Alberto Fernandez announced calling the trade unions and the organizations of picketers in support of Sunday's midterm election “great win”. Likewise one of his most loquacious candidates Victoria Tolosa Paz argued, actually “losing we are winning, and those winning are losing”.

  • Monday, November 15th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

    Argentina’s ruling party loses Congress majority

    President Alberto Fernández still has two years left in office but with less Congressional support

    Preliminary but seemingly conclusive results from Argentina's mid-term elections Sunday showed the ruling party of President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would be losing its majority in Congress after 38 years.

  • Friday, November 12th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

    The Government has heard the voice of the people, Argentine President says

    “It is useless to grow 9 points of GDP if it does not reach all Argentines,” President Fernández said

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday assured his Government had listened to the demands of the people after the Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections in September and taken the necessary steps to deserve the popular support Sunday.