Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 04:38 UTC

  Argentina expected to return to international credit markets at the end of 2011

  

  Barclays Capital expects the administration of President Cristina Fernandez might issue bonds on international credit markets towards the end of this year in a bid to prop up Argentina's fast-growing economy.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 22:57 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez plans to launch re-election bid June 23, says close associate

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may announce her bid to run for re-election at a rally on June 23, according to ruling-party lawmaker and close associate of the head of state, Carlos Kunkel.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  CFK praises Mexico and thanks Calderón for understanding Argentine trade policy

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, described relations with Mexico as “splendorous” and said links are solid because both countries “have helped each other through out difficult times in history”.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 07:32 UTC

  Argentine provincial elections confirm support for President Cristina Fernandez

  

  “This victory belongs to the President (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner)” said governor elect of the Argentine province of La Rioja, Luis Beder Herrera after he swept with 67% of ballots in Sunday’s election.

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 05:51 UTC

  CFK ratified her administration’s economic policies before Mexican business elite

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner ratified before Mexican businessmen that her government will continue to advance the current ‘development inclusion model’ with strong policies in support of the domestic market and exports with added value.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 07:45 UTC

  Moyano cools down, says publicly he’s “tamer than Lassie on a leash”

  

  Argentina’s organized labour leader Hugo Moyano described his relation with the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as “excellent” and blamed the press for all the stories of alleged clashes over political differences with the government.

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 07:46 UTC

  CFK recalls in tears that eight years ago her husband took office as president

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner with eyes full of tears and a shaky voice recalled that eight years ago 25 May 2003 her late husband Nestor Kirchner took office and called on Argentines to build a different country and a different society.

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 07:21 UTC

  Buenos Aires Archbishop calls for more humbleness from the ruling establishment

  

  Buenos Aires Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio called for more humbleness from Argentina’s ruling establishment during the traditional Independence Day Tedeum at the Metropolitan cathedral which as has been the case in previous occasions did not count with the attendance of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  Reutemann says CFK will seek re-election and downplays clashes with organized labour

  

  A leading and respected Argentine Senator forecasted he is certain that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be seeking re-election in the October presidential elections, and assured that her recent clash with the organized labour CGT unions’ umbrella are “nothing but mere disagreements.”

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 10:04 UTC

  Argentine organized labour will support CFK but “without being obsequious”

  

  Argentina’s organized labour said “there are no differences in the relationship with the government” despite President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK criticisms and further stated that they will support the president’s re-election bid “without being obsequious”.