Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:29 UTC

  Argentina's Judiciary releases Nisman's complete prosecution charges against Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's judiciary released late Tuesday the complete version of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman's charges against President Cristina Fernandez, foreign minister Hector Timerman and other close officials, accusing them of 'conspiring a cover up of Iran's' alleged involvement in the bombing of the Jewish institution in Buenos Aires back in 1994, which killed 85 and injured 300.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:10 UTC

  Opposition demands protection of Nisman's records; protest marches in Argentine cities

  

  A group of Argentine opposition senators and lawmakers went ahead on Monday with an informal meeting in Congress which prosecutor Alberto Nisman was expected to address and called for the official's alleged evidence relating to the AMIA case to be protected from interference.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 04:45 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez adds yet another conspiracy chapter to Nisman's death

  

  The usually verbose Argentine president Cristina Fernandez preferred a lengthy letter in Facebook to comment on special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death (suicide), arguing it was yet another tragic chapter of the ongoing confusion, question and lies that have surrounded for 21 years the AMIA case.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 04:35 UTC

  Nisman's death: “no sign of third-party involved” but it was classified as “suspicious”

  

  Argentine prosecutor Viviana Fein confirmed that there was no sign of a third-party being involved in the death of AMIA investigator Alberto Nisman, who was found early Monday morning with a gunshot to the head. However the official refused to rule out the possibility that the deceased was obliged to take his own life by some as yet unknown factor.

• Monday, January 19th 2015 - 07:48 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez meets with economist Piketty expert on wealth distribution

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez met with Thomas Piketty at the Olivos official residence for two hours on Saturday as part of the French economist's tour of Latin America.

• Monday, January 19th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Found dead prosecutor who denounced Argentina president for covering up Iran

  

  The body of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found in the bathroom of his apartment in the Buenos Aires City neighbourhood of Puerto Madero late on Sunday.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  Timerman accuses Nisman of 'investigating the president clandestinely'

  

  Argentina's government called a leading prosecutor a 'despicable liar' on Thursday for accusing President Cristina Fernandez of secretly negotiating with Iran to avoid punishing those responsible for the country's worst terrorist attack, and insisted the whole thing was a 'media show'.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Prosecutor Nisman confirms case against Cristina Fernandez and reveals further evidence

  

  Argentina's AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman confirmed his complaint against President Cristina Fernandez and several other officials over an alleged “criminal deal of impunity” with Iran and explained the role of every one of those he accused for “covering up” Teheran’s involvement in the attack against the Jewish centre in 1994 in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentine president accused of 'covering up' Iran's role in Buenos Aires deadly attack

  

  An Argentine federal special prosecutor on Wednesday accused President Cristina Fernandez of seeking to cover up the involvement of Iran in a 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that claimed 85 lives and 300 injured.

• Tuesday, January 13th 2015 - 08:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to Beijing in February; more financial support from China

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez will be travelling to Beijing next month, reciprocating a visit from her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last July, it was officially announced by chief of staff Jorge Capitanich. The meeting was anticipated last Friday in a meeting of the two countries foreign ministers on the sidelines of the CELAC/China ministerial forum held last week in Beijing.