Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Wednesday, May 13th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Nisman's criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was buried on Tuesday

  

  The criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was closed Tuesday when federal judges from Cassation Court accepted a prosecutor’s decision not to pursue accusations that she had conspired to shield Iranians suspected of planning the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentine presidential election next 25 October and run-off 22 November

  

  The Argentina government formally announced on Monday the primary and national elections calendar, which for the first time includes direct vote for representatives to the Mercosur parliament. Simultaneous primaries will be held on 9 August while the presidential election on 25 October.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Argentine Justice shrugs off impeachment threat: “I'm used to this kind of attacks”

  

  Argentina's Justice Carlos Fayt, the oldest member of the Supreme Court (97) and questioned by the government of president Cristina Fernandez, which demands evidence of his health and mental conditions, has said through his lawyer, Jorge Rizzo that he is not concerned about a possible impeachment hearing raised against him, since 'he is used to this kind of attacks'.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentine S. Court ratifies Chief Justice; Cristina Fernandez wants to impeach a second Justice

  

  In another chapter of the ongoing dispute between Argentine president Cristina Fernández and a non-submissive Judiciary, the country's Supreme Court issued a statement on Tuesday ratifying Ricardo Lorenzetti as Chief Justice for three more years starting in 2016, following versions that he was pushing to leave the SC on yet unclear “moral fatigue” grounds.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:35 UTC

  Mujica admits his 'most intimate respect' for Cristina Fernandez, but...

  

  Uruguayan former president Jose Mujica expressed in Buenos Aires his “most intimate respect” for Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and revealed that on occasions he came across her when “she was annoyed as a bad, cornered spider”.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:18 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wins a battle on her ongoing attack on the non submissive Judiciary

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her followers might be having a rough time in the current round of local elections and primaries leading to the presidential vote next October, but her infighting skills remain intact: on her ongoing battle with the Judiciary branch she managed to put in check the Supreme Court.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's Jewish community urges for Nisman's death inquiry to continue

  

  The president of Argentina's Jewish organization AMIA, president Leonardo Jmelnitzky urged for prosecutor Alberto Nisman´s suspicious death inquiry to continue, and pointed out that the institution is waiting for the confirmation of the unconstitutional nature of Iran´s Memorandum.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  Jewish organizations 'dismayed' by Timerman's 'threats and slanders'

  

  The Argentine-Israel Association, AMIA, expressed on Wednesday great dismay given the “strong threats” in the letter sent by Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman announcing he was quitting as member of the century old organization.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 01:58 UTC

  Nisman case leads to Timerman indeclinable resignation from Argentine Jewish organizations

  

  Argentine foreign minister Héctor Timerman submitted on Tuesday his “indeclinable” resignation as an affiliate of AMIA, the Argentine Israel organization that is at the center of an ongoing controversy since 1994, when it suffered Argentina's worst terrorist attack with the loss of 85 lives and over 300 injured in downtown Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:08 UTC

  Falklands and replacing the dollar, priorities for Argentina/Moscow agenda, argues Russian ex diplomat

  

  The cooperation agreements recently signed by Argentina with Russia could be a Buenos Aires' response to the situation with the disputed Falkland Islands territories, former Russian ambassador to Argentina Evgeny Astakhov told the Russian news agency, Sputnik International on Friday.