Tag: Cristina Fernandez

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.
Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 06:50 UTC
Cristina Fernandez hosts Rousseff to address political and trade issues

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will travel to Buenos Aires on Thursday for a two-day meeting with her Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernández and discuss political and trade matters between the two countries after an imports drop in Argentina last year and the cancelling by Brazil of a major investment project.
Monday, April 22nd 2013 - 06:40 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Mujica tell Cartes, Mercosur ‘is waiting for the return of Paraguay’

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez congratulated Paraguayan president-elect Horacio Cartes for his ample victory in Sunday’s election and said Mercosur was waiting for the return of the country to the trade block.
Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:03 UTC
Two million Argentines across the country join the biggest anti-government protest in years

Almost two million Argentines marched on Thursday evening across the country’s cities and towns in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy, corruption, street crime and President Cristina Fernandez efforts to reform the media, the courts and the constitution so she can bid for a third consecutive four year mandate.
Friday, April 19th 2013 - 03:14 UTC
May peace prevail: Cristina and Mujica fly together to Peru on Tango 01

Sooner than expected Argentine President Cristina Fernandez seems to have accepted her Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica’s apologies following his coarse words: “this old lady is worse than the one-eyed man” to refer to the Argentine leader and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.
Thursday, April 18th 2013 - 10:19 UTC
Urgent meeting of Unasur in Lima to express support for Venezuela’s Maduro

Argentine President Cristina Fernández will travel to Lima for a UNASUR meeting on Thursday in which regional countries are expected to express their support for the elections results in Venezuela and President elect Nicolas Maduro.
Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 08:06 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Mujica could overcome incident at Maduro’s ceremony in Caracas

Argentina and Uruguay presidents could hold an unofficial meeting next Friday in Caracas when they attend the taking office ceremony of Venezuelan president next Friday, according to Montevideo diplomatic sources.