Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, August 4th 2014 - 07:09 UTC

  Malvinas war and the 2001 and 2014 defaults, Argentina's worst mistakes in 33 years

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas war, the 2001 default and the 2014 default are “the three events that are going to go down, in recent Argentina history, as the three worst strategic mistakes committed by the country”, according to political analyst and historian Rosendo Fraga.

• Saturday, August 2nd 2014 - 08:46 UTC

  Brazilian media call Cristina Fernandez, “inept, arrogant and incompetent”

  

  The leading Brazilian newspapers blasted Argentine president Cristina Fernandez as the sole responsible for the 'default event' which followed the failure of negotiations with holdouts in New York. This despite the fact Brazilian economy minister Guido Mantega denied Argentina was in default and strongly supported the Argentine government.

• Friday, August 1st 2014 - 07:52 UTC

  Argentine president defies Judge Griesa rulings and mocks 'selective default'

  

  President Cristina Fernández said on Thursday she will not “sign an agreement” that compromises Argentina's future, while blasting “vulture funds” for wanting to “collect Griesa's usurious sentence”, following the Wednesday failure of negotiations between the country and holdouts.

• Wednesday, July 30th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez thanks Mercosur support and again attacked Judge Griesa

  

  President Cristina Fernández addressed fellow heads of state at the Mercosur summit in Caracas, where she thanked members of the bloc for their support over the ongoing fight with holdout investors in the New York courts and underlined that Argentina “has paid debt obligations religiously”.

• Tuesday, July 29th 2014 - 05:35 UTC

  “ Argentina Dances With Default”, warns The Wall Street Journal

  

  As Argentina approached the deadline for another default, second in twelve years, the governments of President Cristina Fernandez is trashing a U.S. judge rather than repay creditors, underlines an editorial column from The Wall Street Journal.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 08:09 UTC

  Strong speech from Cristina Fernandez expected at Mercosur summit in Caracas

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez will attend this Tuesday the leaders' summit of Mercosur in Caracas, Venezuela. The president will travel to Caracas in order to participate in a congress originally scheduled for December 17, but which suffered several postponements.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:56 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government again clash over the 'preyed-upon decade”

  

  Argentine Agriculture Minister Carlos Casamiquela and Federal Planning chief Julio De Vido rebuffed the criticism of the head of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Luis Etchevehere, who at the opening of the Palermo livestock show accused the government of President Cristina Fernandez of being “ignorant and arrogant”.

• Saturday, July 26th 2014 - 06:56 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will analyze holdouts' case during her stay in Rio Gallegos

  

  President Cristina Fernandez left on Friday for Santa Cruz province, where she will stay for the weekend and analyze New York Argentine/holdouts case briefings. The Argentine delegation returned on Friday to Buenos Aires after two meetings with appointed mediator Daniel Pollack in New York, where no resolution was reached.

• Friday, July 25th 2014 - 05:58 UTC

  Argentines consider Mujica far “more honest” than Cristina Fernandez

  

  An 'honesty' ranking by Argentine pollster, Giacobbe & Associates, based on 500 names, both alive and deceased, shows the country's public opinion poor belief in the political system, with president Cristina Fernández ranked 38, fourteen positions down from a similar poll last year and behind her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica ranked 11.

• Friday, July 25th 2014 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentina insists on Griesa for some insurance against the RUFO clause

  

  After failing to reach an agreement during Thursday's meeting with court-appointed mediator Daniel Pollack, Argentina reiterated that there could be no negotiations with speculative funds or 'vulture funds' until judge Thomas Griesa provides some insurance against possible liabilities related to the 'Rights upon Future Offers' (RUFO) clause.