Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• 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.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree greater ‘productive integration mechanism”

  

  Argentine and Brazilian presidents Cristina Fernandez and Dilma Rousseff agreed in Caracas the creation of a Productive Integration Mechanism, MIP, to deepen bilateral relations.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:04 UTC

  “Four years more are more than enough”, says Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez watered down any hopes of a limitless re-election during her visit to Venezuela stating that “four years more are more than enough”.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF denies Argentine court info on how to calculate inflation: “files are inviolable”

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) avoided replying to an inquiry required by Argentine Judge Alejandro Catania, who handles the case of the lawsuit filed by the Domestic Trade Secretariat against private consulting agencies.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  CFK off to Venezuela to meet with Chavez and Dilma Rousseff

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will hold a bilateral meeting next Friday with her Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff in the framework of the first Latin American and Caribbean States Community Summit (CELAC).