Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 12:24 UTC

  Reedition of Kirchner's aggressive policy towards Falklands announced by Alberto Fernandez

  

  The Kirchnerite government headed by president Alberto Fernandez announced on Sunday, at the opening of the 138th congressional session, the new focus of the Malvinas Islands/Antarctica policy which will emphasize the sovereignty claim over the South Atlantic Islands, particularly the Falklands, and sanction those fishing companies operating in the area.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  IMF chief denies any haircut on the Argentine loan; Alberto Fernandez questions the decision

  

  The International Monetary Fund, as the lender of last resort, won’t offer a haircut on its Argentina loan after Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on the institution to take a loss.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 21:08 UTC

  Fernandez insists Argentina needs more time to honor its debt with IMF

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez said that the country “needs more time” to honor its debt with the IMF and underlined he would like “a commitment of the Fund with Argentina”. He also welcomed what he described as a “common sense dialogue with the IMF mission” currently in Buenos Aires for a review of the country's finances and economic prospects.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez: Argentina will not pay “even half a cent” of its IMF debt until the country exits recession

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said on Saturday in Havana that the government will not pay “even half a cent” of its debt back to the International Monetary Fund before the country has exited recession.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 17:48 UTC

  The Argentine judge who prosecuted vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dead

  

  Argentine federal judge Claudio Bonadio, notorious for bringing cases involving the former president and current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), died Tuesday morning at his home it was reported.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Despite the rhetoric, Argentina close military collaboration with the US and Brazil

  

  Last week the Argentine lower house of Congress, voted 214–2 to allow the “entry of foreign troops” and the participation of Argentine troops in exercises abroad. Several of the military exercises listed in the bill are being organized and financed by the Pentagon.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  “Cristina Fernandez, the most brilliant woman of Argentine history”, praise from Macri's electoral advisor

  

  He was considered the guru of Argentine electoral campaigns, the man who helped Mauricio Macri jump from president of one of the two most popular soccer teams in the country, to twice mayor/governor of the City of Buenos Aires and finally to occupy during four years the Pink House, Casa Rosada, defeating the hegemonic Peronist movement.

• 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.