Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  When the Kirchners are over, Argentina will be a “minefield not a country”

  

  According to new Wikileaks cables unveiled by Spanish daily El Pais, Argetnina’s former Santa Fe governor Carlos Reutemann told US diplomats that “whoever comes after the Kirchner administrations will inherit a mine field” instead of a country.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Argentina declares compulsory conciliation to end crippling strike at export ports

  

  Argentina's government has ordered unions to suspend a week-old strike at leading grains ports for a 15-day period to hold talks with company bosses, a Labour Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  Trade deficit main “concern” for Argentine/Brazilian relations

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Timerman revealed Tuesday that the trade deficit Argentina has with Brazil is “concerning”, and indicated that both nations are working “to reduce it.”

• Tuesday, February 1st 2011 - 00:06 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina ratify “strategic relation” and commit greater integration

  

  In her first overseas visit as Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff ratified Monday in Buenos Aires the “special strategic” relation with Argentina while her counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, called for an “increased productive integration” between the two leading Mercosur partners.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 20:52 UTC

  Dilma Rousseff Makes First Trip Abroad As President to Argentina

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will arrive in Argentina on Monday on her first foreign trip as president.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2011 - 17:10 UTC

  New Poll Shows Argentine President as Favorite in Next Elections

  

  According to a poll published today, President of Argentina Cristina Fernández is shown as the favorite to win next October’s elections, even though she has kept quiet her intentions of running.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2011 - 14:15 UTC

  Argentine Government questions present relevance of 1999 Falklands Agreement with Britain

  

  The Argentine Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that the “provisional understandings” signed by London and Buenos Aires were in complete disuse and that the “unilateral actions of the United Kingdom” with regard to oil exploration and military exercises on the Islands constituted an “unsolveable obstacle” to the continuation and development of the “bilateral cooperation”

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 09:07 UTC

  Drought stricken-Uruguay praises Argentina’s “formidable gesture”

  

  President Jose Mujica described as a “formidable gesture” the Argentine government’s decision to facilitate the export of grains and fodder to Uruguay which in under an “agriculture emergency” because of a severe drought that threatens much of the cattle to the north of the country.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 23:58 UTC

  Venezuela crucial to consolidate “energy front” says Cristina Kirchner

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner underlined the significance of Venezuela as a full member of Mercosur which should enable the group to consolidate an energy front.

• Thursday, December 16th 2010 - 12:05 UTC

  CFK names first Security Minister to address the challenge of “social problems”

  

  In an attempt to cope with what has been described as “social problems”, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner swore in Nilda Garré as new Security Minister and Arturo Puricelli as new Defence Minister during a ceremony at Government House.