Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, April 16th 2012 - 04:55 UTC

  Obama confirms at the summit US neutrality on the Falklands/Malvinas question

  

  The US will remain on the sidelines in the dispute between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands sovereignty, said President Barack Obama on Sunday at the conclusion of the Summit of the Americas in Colombia.

• Sunday, April 15th 2012 - 20:57 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez abandons summit with no declaration on Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández left the 6th Summit of the Americas held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, before the official closing meeting allegedly in protest against a lack of regional support for Argentina’s claims in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with the UK.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Falklands veteran Royal Marine and yomper, feels Falklands are well defended

  

  Retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner, who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war, thinks a new Argentine attack on the Islands is unlikely.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 15:32 UTC

  Argentina denies ‘political opportunism’ in Malvinas sovereignty-claim campaign

  

  The Argentine government said that the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim is “not political opportunism” or geared “to remove other issues from the country’s political agenda” and is coherent with the political and ideological thinking of both Presidents Cristina Fernandez and her late husband and former president Nestor Kirchner.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 - 06:54 UTC

  Uruguay will enjoy “positive discrimination” in bilateral trade with Argentina

  

  Argentina and Uruguay presidents Cristina Fernandez and Jose Mujica agreed Monday evening to discuss their trade differences in the framework of Mercosur and promote “positive discrimination” measures for Uruguayan exports to help compensate the restrictions imported to all imports by the Argentine government.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez repudiates Monday attack against British embassy in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández condemned the attacks of the extreme left-wing organization Quebracho to the British embassy in Buenos Aires occurred last Monday, date of the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas War.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:49 UTC

  Argentina has decided to take control of YPF, says pro-government newspaper

  

  The Argentine government has made the decision to take control of leading energy company YPF and is discussing whether to renationalize it or intervene in its administration, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:28 UTC

  Rootyling for cash, the central bank has become Argentina’s Piggy bank

  

  The Economist argues that with the latest legislation, the Argentine central bank has lost its legal independence and become the piggy bank of President Cristina Fernandez government.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2012 - 11:25 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to lead main Malvinas war commemoration from Ushuaia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will head next 2 April the main ceremony remembering the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas war when Argentine forces invaded the Falklands and held them for 74 days until ousted by a British Task Force

• Saturday, March 24th 2012 - 08:38 UTC

  Argentina declassifies scathing review of blunders committed during Malvinas war

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has finally declassified a scathing review of the mistakes made by Argentina's military junta in going to war with Britain in 1982 trying to recover the Falkland Islands.