Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  March of torches in Argentine cities to protest soaring costs of public services

  

  Tens of thousands of Argentines marched through Buenos Aires on Thursday evening carrying torches, in the first of a series of planned protests against President Mauricio Macri's austerity program and the soaring cost of public services.

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  YPF 2012 nationalization case reaches US Supreme Court: US$ 2.5bn at stake

  

  The US Supreme Court will hear this Friday an appeal against an intermediate court decision accepting jurisdiction over Argentina and its majority state-owned oil giant YPF, in a case relating to YPF’s 2012 re-nationalization by Argentina, then under the rule of ex-president Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2019 - 07:09 UTC

  Macri and Cristina Fernandez, most influential Argentines during 2018

  

  Who have been the most influential Argentines during 2018, is a traditional public opinion survey which Consultants Giacobbe & Associates have been releasing annually uninterruptedly since 1995. And this last year there were no big surprises: the main characters have been president Mauricio Macri and ex-president Cristina Fernandez.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 07:14 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ex foreign minister, Hector Timerman, dies 65

  

  Hector Timerman, a former Argentine foreign minister who was charged with treason in 2013 for his role in negotiating an agreement with Iran relating to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, died Sunday at his home here. He was 65. His lawyer, Graciana Peñafort, said the cause was respiratory failure. Timerman had been under treatment for liver cancer, she said.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 19:41 UTC

  Court says CFK must be tried for corruption and jailed preemptively

  

  An Argentine appeals court Thursday upheld the September decision by judge Claudio Bonadio whereby Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) must stand trial and be preemptively imprisoned throughout the proceedings for having allegedly received millionaire bribes from businessmen in the Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015).

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is back on stage and preparing for her presidential bid next October

  

  Argentine ex-president and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is back on stage and looking to run in next October's presidential election, hopefully with a united opposition. Mandatory primaries in Argentina are only eight months away and several of her acolytes over the weekend and with her blessing announced she is prepared to run for the presidency.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Government fails to strip Cristina Fernandez of her parliamentary immunity

  

  Argentina ex-president and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will retain her parliamentary immunity for the rest of the year following the ruling coalition's Senate block failed attempt on Tuesday afternoon to address the issue.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  CFK: Macri merely a manager of policies imposed from abroad

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández Kirchner (CFK) Monday criticized the administration of her successor Mauricio Macri in a speech that lasted over an hour at the anti-G20 summit in Buenos Aires, saying - among other things - that by taking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the current president merely manages what is dictated to him.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and “the K money route”, judge asks for further information

  

  Argentine federal Judge Sebastian Casanello ruled lack of admissible evidence in the case involving ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and referred to the alleged laundering of money from public works contracts during the Kirchner couple's rule (2003/2015), better known as “the route of the K money”.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:30 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez, Jose Mujica and Dilma Rousseff in a Critical Thinking forum

  

  Several Latin American presidents and political activists are scheduled to hold the First Forum of Critical Thinking next week in Buenos Aires, just a few days before the G20 summit which this year in being hosted by Argentina and will convene the world's leaders.