Tag: Cristina Fernandez

Saturday, December 10th 2011 - 00:46 UTC
Five leaders miss CFK inauguration ceremony to be aired live in Youtube

The presidents of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico, Hugo Chávez, Juan Manuel Santos, Ollanta Humala, Rafael Correa and Felipe Calderón have cancelled their trips to Buenos Aires and won’t attend President Cristina Fernández inauguration ceremony on Saturday.
Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:51 UTC
Mujica changes his mind and will be present for CFK taking office ceremony

Uruguayan President José Mujica changed his mind and will attend Argentine President Cristina Fernández inauguration ceremony next Saturday, official sources confirmed.
Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:35 UTC
UK “feeling uneasy” with Argentine diplomatic campaign to recover the Malvinas

Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli rejected the announced UK plan to create a huge marine protection zone in South Georgia saying the British are feeling “uneasy” because of the Argentine diplomatic work displayed to claim the South Atlantic Islands.
Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:29 UTC
Peruvian group in support and solidarity with Argentine Falklands/Malvinas Islands

Peruvian diplomats, jurists and academia presented the Argentine ambassador in Lima Dario D’Alessandro a document formalizing the Peruvian Group in Support and Solidarity with Argentine Sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands
Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:41 UTC
US about turn: now it supports loans to Argentina in multilateral credit organizations

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced on Wednesday the unanimous approval of a 400 million dollar credit to Argentina in order to improve the infrastructure of the country’s poor neighbourhoods.
Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 05:54 UTC
In the best Kirchner style: the new cabinet is more continuity than change

Under the heading of “More continuity than change”, Argentine political analyst Rosendo Fraga describes the incoming cabinet of re-elected president Cristina Fernandez as something very much in the style of the Kirchner.
Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 05:39 UTC
CFK begins her second mandate with the budget and energy bill in the red

Cristina Fernandez takes the re-election oath on Saturday with government accounts and the energy bill in red, which contrasts with the surplus condition enjoyed by Argentina when she first took office four years ago.
Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 04:02 UTC
Argentina new cabinet minister, a political scientist from Peronist nomenclature

Argentina’s new cabinet chief and former Media Secretary of the Executive, Juan Manuel Abal Medina, 43, besides his own proven merits carries an illustrious name in the Peronist nomenclature.
Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 17:25 UTC
Argentina keeps to the book: (“traitor”) Cobos will swear-in re-elected Cristina Fernandez

Argentine Vice-president Julio Cobos confirmed that he will be part of the swearing-in ceremony of re-elected president Cristina Fernández, and that he is “ready to face any uncomfortable situation that may happen.”
Monday, December 5th 2011 - 21:30 UTC
Uruguay’s prospects entangled in Mercosur senior members’ policies, says EIU

Uruguay will have to learn to live with Argentina’s ‘unpredictable policies” and its growing tendency to protectionism, both from President Cristina Fernandez as from Brazil in a context where both economies growth is slowing down.