Tag: Cristina Fernandez

Monday, February 14th 2011 - 03:36 UTC
Argentines accept inflation is in the range of 25%, but divided on the causes

A majority of Argentines, 74%, believes that inflation is harming their finances and a similar percentage, 74%, considers the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is hardly interested in the issue, according to a public opinion poll published Sunday in Buenos Aires La Nacion.
Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:52 UTC
Argentine business leaders urge government to “stop denying inflation”

The head of Argentina’ powerful Business Leaders Association (ADE) urged the government to “stop denying inflation” and rejected the notion that businessmen are responsible for price hikes.
Wednesday, February 9th 2011 - 20:13 UTC
A former secretary of Nestor Kirchner claims she was his mistress

A former secretary of Nestor Kirchner, the late ex-president of Argentina, has claimed she was his long-term mistress weeks after being sacked by his widow and successor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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”