Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• 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).

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:07 UTC

  Lagarde leaves Argentina out of tour for not complying with understanding

  

  IMF chief specifically excluded Argentina from its coming Latinamerican tour because the government of President Cristina Fernandez still has to comply with what was agreed last July, basically normalizing the controversial INDEC stats office and open its books to auditing as happens with all other members of the G20.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 06:27 UTC

  CFK promises pro-growth model, industrial “fine tuning” and dialogue

  

  In a milestone speech on Tuesday anticipating the four years of her next mandate, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez disclosed she would continue with pro-growth policies but also added that a time of ‘fine tuning’ had arrived in which she was willing to address all issues including “investment and inflation” but not through the newspapers.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Oil might lubricate the process to real dialogue in the South Atlantic

  

  The second of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 07:29 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez admits “the model has distortions which must be corrected”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez promised on Monday to continue defending with ‘tooth and nails’ the powerful wheel of domestic consumption that has boosted the current economic model but also admitted the existence of ‘distortions which must be corrected’.