Tag: Cristina Fernandez

Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:58 UTC
Netanyahu praises Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday congratulated Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 08:25 UTC
Cristina Fernandez again president, but will not move from her office in Congress

Vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is again president of Argentina, although on an interim basis, while the head of state Alberto Fernandez is off to Israel for a summit of world leaders to a homage to Holocaust victims.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:21 UTC
Ex president Mujica calls Argentines “swindlers”; Buenos Aires media demand an apology

Uruguayan ex-president Jose Mujica is well known for his eclectic statements, expressed in the most coarse language, and in these austral summer days, with much sun and hard-drinking, was again at it, this time mocking the Argentines and his Kirchner friends which he openly supported in the recent election that meant the return of the Ks' populism.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Justice demanded for Argentina's slain terrorism prosecutor

By Toby Dershowitz - Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost Nisman his life five years ago this week. (January 18)
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:33 UTC
Nisman's homage turns into allegations of an impunity pact between president Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner

Thousands marched in downtown Buenos Aires, on Saturday. demanding an answer to the still unsolved mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found with a gunshot to the head, exactly five years ago ( January 18).
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:48 UTC
Cristina Fernandez again considered the most influential Argentine

After eight years in office, back in 2015, when ex-president Cristina Fernandez left office, she ranked ninth among the most influential Argentines, according to an ongoing national opinion poll from Giacobbe & Associates which was started in the nineties.
Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Iran upsets Argentine president with comments on the still unsolved death of special prosecutor Nisman

An Iranian accused of involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina has added to speculation over the mysterious death of a prosecutor who investigated the attack.
Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Nisman's death controversy reignited: “there isn't a shred of proof” he was murdered, says president Fernandez

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday he doubts that a prosecutor who died two days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre committed suicide. But he insisted “there isn't a shred of proof” that Alberto Nisman was murdered, as his family insists.
Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:49 UTC
In a surprising move, Argentine members of Congress freeze their salaries and allowances for 180 days

In a surprising decision and probably for the first time in Argentina history, the two chambers of Congress agreed to freeze their salaries for the next 180 days, that is until the end of June.
Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 13:44 UTC
Evo Morales cries “privatization” despite terms of his asylum in Argentina

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales, now under political asylum in Buenos Aires, claimed Friday on Twitter that his country's interim government, headed by Jeanine Añez, intends to privatize companies and natural resources.