Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, July 8th 2013 - 07:11 UTC

  Opinion polls are not enthusiastic about Cristina Fernandez ahead of October mid-term election

  

  Five weeks ahead of primaries and three months away from mid term congressional election, public opinion polls indicate that President Cristina Fernandez could be heading to a serious defeat, particularly in the province of Buenos Aires, which with 37% of the national vote is decisive for any victory pretension.

• Monday, July 8th 2013 - 07:06 UTC

  Teamsters bring Argentina to a stop and challenge fiscal policy and income tax

  

  Argentina’s teamsters union headed by the powerful leader Hugo Moyano, a former ally of the government and currently one of her most aggressive adversaries, has declared a national strike on Monday which in practical terms means the country is in full campaign ahead of the mid term October election when President Cristina Fernandez will try by all means to retain control over Congress.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 04:08 UTC

  Give Us Your Real Dollars for Our Fake Dollars: Argentina Credit

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s wish of being able to print dollars is coming true as the central bank begins issuing dollar-denominated certificates today that trade in pesos.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  ‘Artigas never wanted to be Argentine; he was too smart for that’, a barrage of twits tell Cristina Fernandez

  

  Never in his life did Artigas (Uruguay’s liberator from Spain and Portugal 200 years ago) wanted to be an Argentine, and since then all Uruguayans feel the same way, was the spirit of the barrage of twits from Uruguayan opposition leaders condemning President Cristina Fernandez interpretation of history events.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 04:41 UTC

  After a rough year Cristina Fernandez names new top heads of the Armed Forces

  

  In a surprise move Argentine President Cristina Fernández replaced the top heads of the armed forces and appointed Brigadier General Luis María Carena as the new head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The changes announced on Wednesday come just a few weeks after former lawmaker Augstín Rossi was named new Defence minister.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2013 - 21:02 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez regrets Uruguay is not part of Argentina and praises Uruguayan liberator

  

  President Cristina Fernandez deeply regretted that history did not allow Uruguay to be part of Argentina and blamed ‘so many other events that divided and separated’ the two neighbouring countries preventing them from being ‘a great, great nation’.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 17:08 UTC

  Argentine indigenous people ask Francis to intercede before Cristina Fernandez

  

  Leaders of an Argentine indigenous community together with Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel met on Monday with Pope Francis and requested he intercedes before Argentine president Cristina Fernandez so that she receives a delegation from the Qom community.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  Argentine central bank has lost 17% of reserves since the ‘dollar clamp’

  

  Argentine central bank international reserves dropped 17% since the government of President Cristina Fernandez imposed the ‘dollar clamp`, first limiting operations in the US currency and later savings in greenbacks. While this happened in Argentina in other regional central banks, international reserves kept climbing, according to a report from consultants Economia&Regiones (E&R).

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:31 UTC

  Ironic Argentine president attacks Supreme Court: “Cristina will run for Judge in 2015”

  

  Still licking the wounds from her defeat at the Supreme Court that ruled unconstitutional several articles of her attempted and controversial judicial reform, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez ironically said she would be running for judge in 2015 and pledged to continue fighting.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 02:45 UTC

  British tapped phones and computers of G20 summit held in London, claims The Guardian

  

  Foreign politicians could have had their telephones and computers intercepted in G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, a group to which Argentina belongs, according to an exclusive report carried out by British newspaper The Guardian after it gained access to certain documents that could cause problems for the British government.