Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Tuesday, June 9th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Argentina is paradise: poverty below 5% rate Cristina Fernandez tells the world

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández sparked controversy on Sunday when in a speech before the FAO conference in Rome, she endorsed widely disputed government figures on poverty, saying the rate was “below five percent,” adding that destitution in the country stood at 1.27%. If this was correct Argentina's poverty rate is below that of OECD rich league members.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Francis receives Cristina Fernandez, but is criticized for mingling in Argentine politics

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was received on Sunday in the Vatican by Pope Francis for an encounter that lasted almost two hours, in the fifth meeting between the pontiff and head of state since the ex-Buenos Aires archbishop was elected to the Holy See. The meeting however was not without criticism from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez met Snowden in Moscow to talk about UK spying on Argentina, reveals BAH

  

  President Cristina Fernandez met with former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden when she visited Moscow in April, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Snowden became world famous when in 2013 when he revealed the extent of Washington’s global Internet and phone surveillance.

• Thursday, June 4th 2015 - 09:06 UTC

  “No one can teach us how to make the economy grow”, blasts Cristina Fernandez

  

  In a speech broadcasted live on Argentine national television and radio, President Cristina Fernández used most of the time to praise her government’s achievements insisting no one “can give us lessons on how to make the economy grow” and highlighting the role of the State.

• Thursday, June 4th 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and her grouping lead comfortably ahead of elections

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández will end her second term with an approval rating of 60%, according to the Equist political consultancy firm. On the other hand, PRO presidential candidate and Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri enjoys a positive image among 30% of the country's population.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2015 - 04:44 UTC

  Merkel remains most powerful woman in the world; Brazil's Dilma, seventh

  

  Angela Merkel has retained her place as the world's most powerful woman for the fifth year in a row, U.S. business magazine Forbes said on Tuesday. Merkel has made the list 10 times in the past 12 years, nine of them as number one. She was first elected in 2005 and won an historic third term in 2013.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 20:07 UTC

  Argentine Church calls for responsible leadership and end to political bickering

  

  The long influential shadow of Buenos Aires born Pope Francis was again present on Monday 25 May at two significant religious and official ceremonies, calling for responsible leadership and an end to political bickering.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 07:04 UTC

  CFK anticipates to huge rally that Kirchnerism will continue after December

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) demanded that the “current twelve year transformation process of Argentina” and Peronism continue in office and underlined that this objective does not depend on one person, but on the people's voting and defending all that was conquered in the last twelve years.

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez leads ceremony returning San Martin's saber to the National History Museum

  

  President Cristina Fernandez led a ceremony on Sunday where the National History Museum received, after 48 years, the saber that belonged to Argentina's Liberator General José de San Martín currently at the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez launches May Revolution week with strong messages

  

  President Cristina Fernández led on Wednesday a rally in the Buenos Aires City central railway station of Retiro where she praised the renovation of Argentina's railway system in an event that was part of the official celebrations marking a new anniversary of the May Revolution, which in 1810 was the beginning of the country's road to independence.