Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, December 12th 2011 - 19:54 UTC

  Mercosur planning to change rules to ensure full incorporation of Venezuela

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica announced Mercosur is considering the modification of legislation so that Venezuela can definitively be incorporated as a full member to the South American trade block, which has been blocked for several years now by the Paraguayan Congress.

• Monday, December 12th 2011 - 00:18 UTC

  Argentine organized labour admits a “difficult relationship” with CFK

  

  Argentina’s organized labour has admitted a “difficult relationship” between the government of President Cristina Fernandez and the CGT Labour Confederation, but there’s “no break-up or anything like it”.

• 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.