Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Thursday, April 28th 2016 - 07:37 UTC

  Corruption network ever closer to Cristina Fernandez as associates are investigated

  

  Argentina's Lower House member and former Secretary of ex president Cristina Fernandez, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro is under prosecution investigation following claims he over billed travel expenses while overseas in 2015 as part of the presidential delegations.

• Friday, April 22nd 2016 - 07:48 UTC

  Singer praises Macri and calls him a great 'reformist' in a Time weekly column

  

  United States hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer is a big fan of Argentina’s new president. For one thing, Mauricio Macri doesn’t call him a “vulture lord” or a “bloodsucker,” as his predecessor Cristina Fernández did. More important, the newly elected Macri recently paid Singer’s firm US$2.28 billion in debt.

• Thursday, April 14th 2016 - 02:50 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez back on stage; attacks Macri and his policies and the Judiciary

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernández addressed thousands of militants that rallied outside Buenos Aires City main courthouse building where earlier in the day she testifies on the dollar future probe conducted by a Federal Judge.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 06:07 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to testify on dollar/futures; supporters camping outside the courthouse in Buenos Aires

  

  Hundreds of supporters are expected to cheer former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez during a court appearance on Wednesday after returning to Buenos Aires for the first time since November's election.Fernandez who governed Argentina for eight years, has been called to testify about alleged irregularities in dollar futures trading that led to losses of almost US$4 billion for the central bank. Her allies say no crime was involved and that she's being politically persecuted.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 08:30 UTC

  Hero's welcome for Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, where she faces first court investigation

  

  Supporters of former President Cristina Fernandez gave her a hero's welcome Monday night at a Buenos Aires metropolitan airport before she faces a court over her possible role in an alleged scheme to manipulate Argentina's currency.

• Monday, April 11th 2016 - 06:46 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to be questioned in money laundering investigation; militants organizing support march

  

  A Prosecutor decided on Saturday that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner must be included in a money laundering investigation following the testimony given by whistleblower Leonardo Fariña before Judge Sebastian Casanello on Friday.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:19 UTC

  Ex Transport Secretary involves Nestor and Cristina Kirchner in purchase of out of service trains

  

  Discouraging week for the Kirchner family and followers, despite the fact that he name of their main political enemy, Mauricio Macri, has cropped up in the Panama Papers. Not only Lazaro Baez, the dominant public works contractor in Santa Cruz province, and believed to be a straw man for the Kirchner family has been arrested and faces questioning on a money laundering investigation, but also former Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime implicated the Kirchner couple and a former minister in a multimillion purchase of damaged railway materials.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:03 UTC

  Kirchnerite businessman arrested; faces charges of money laundering and fiscal fraud

  

  An Argentine powerful public works contractor from the province of Santa Cruz and close associate of the Kirchner family, Lazaro Baez was arrested on Tuesday afternoon when he arrived in his private Lear Jet to a Buenos Aires airport. Considered one of the wealthiest men in the southern province, political turf of the Kirchner family, and with an 'unrivaled' talent for business, Baez is a main suspect of an investigation into alleged money laundering.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 22:54 UTC

  Argentine congress overwhelmingly approves deal with creditors to end 15-year conflict

  

  After 13 hours of debate, Argentina's senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a deal with creditors in the US, putting an end to a sovereign bonds' dispute that had lasted 15 years. The deal was reached in late February, and the Lower House passed it earlier this month. The senate began debating on Wednesday morning and on early Thursday passed the measure by 54 votes to 16.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 22:41 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over Malvinas invasion date: Macri will not attend any of the April 2 anniversary events

  

  Malvinas veterans expressed great displeasure with the official announcement that Argentine president Mauricio Macri will not be attending any of the programmed events in different cities and provinces on the 34th anniversary of the Argentine April 2 invasion of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, according to Buenos Aires media.