Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Thursday, May 9th 2013 - 05:13 UTC

  Do you trust this Lady to look after your dollar savings?

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez sent on Wednesday to congress the tax amnesty bill to tap undeclared dollar assets, in the country and overseas, generating a cascade of critical reactions from well known economists while the ‘blue dollar’ in the parallel market seemed to ignore the announcements and kept climbing to a new record high.

• Thursday, May 9th 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Argentine official pledges to look into ‘blue’ dollar market and admits problems in real estate sector

  

  Argentina Deputy Economy minister Axel Kicillof pledged “to look into” the growing parallel market for the US dollar because it is harming many innocent people who have nothing to do with speculation and claimed that ‘certain economists’ and media are encouraging speculation with the greenback.

• Thursday, May 9th 2013 - 04:56 UTC

  Argentina: Dollar kept climbing on Wednesday and reached 10.45 Pesos

  

  Despite the tax amnesty bill and investment options pledged by the government of President Cristina Fernandez, the dollar kept climbing in Argentina. After breaking the key psychological barrier of 10 Pesos to the dollar on Tuesday, the “blue” dollar which trades on the parallel market climbed again on Wednesday another 37 cents to reach 10.45 Argentine Pesos.

• Monday, May 6th 2013 - 00:48 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina working to find a long-standing agreement on trade, says Marco Aurelio

  

  Brazil and Argentina are trying to address their economic and trade differences so that they can reach a long-standing, long term solution, said Marco Aurelio García, the Brazilian Executive advisor on foreign issues and trouble shooter for this kind of conflicts.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez leads ceremony to honour 323 crewmembers from torpedoed ‘General Belgrano’

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez honoured the memory of the 323 crew members from the cruiser “General Belgrano” who lost their lives during the Malvinas war, “today, 31 years ago” and described the British torpedo attack on the vessel as “a criminal and coward action”.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 05:54 UTC

  US Congress to discuss devastating report on Cristina Fernandez administration

  

  “Under the corrupt populist government of President Cristina Fernandez Argentina is back on the road to ruin” is the kick off for an extremely critical report to be discussed by the US Congress and which was drafted by Douglas Farah, senior research fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Centre under the heading of “Back to the future”.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  In a continent of tweeting chiefs, should presidents message immediate reactions?

  

  When a million angry Argentines flooded the streets earlier this month to protest her government, President Cristina Fernandez decided to post a message on Twitter, but then could not stop and kept twitting.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 20:08 UTC

  Argentine minister forecasts solid victory in October election; polls say the contrary

  

  Argentina’s Federal Planning minister Julio de Vido called on Buenos Aires province mayors to defend the Cristina Fernandez government model and predicted a solid victory in the mid term legislative elections of next October.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  President Rousseff calls on Vale to dialogue with Argentine authorities

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said during a joint conference with her Argentine peer Cristina Fernández at Government House in Buenos Aires that she was certain the Vale mining company “would find a way to reach an agreement with the Argentine authorities” on the suspended project.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  In chaotic session Argentina approves controversial bills of the judicial reform

  

  Argentina’s Lower House passed early Thursday morning after an overnight and at time chaotic debate the most controversial bills contained in a judicial reform which the administration of President Cristina Fernandez is obsessed in having approved before mid May.