Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 20:46 UTC

  Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary “can't perform miracles”

  

  Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti Thursday admitted that the inflation figures for the month of March “will be bad” following the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the local economy.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  CFK and her son praise Memory Day rally demonstrators

  

  Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Thursday sent a message through social media to the groups who marched onto Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo during the Memory Day commemorations of those fallen under the military dictatorship which came to power March 24, 1976.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Demonstrators attack Argentine Congress building during IMF deal debate

  

  While Argentina's Lower House was debating the approval of the refinancing agreement with the International Monetary Fund, demonstrators staged several incidents in and around the Congress building in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 21:46 UTC

  Argentine Lower House passes IMF deal

  

  Argentina's House of Deputies greenlighted the deal reached between the administration of President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund in the wee hours of Friday by 202 votes in favor, 37 against, and 13 abstentions.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Argentine President launches 2023 candidacy. Ties broken with CFK?

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday announced his intention to run for reelection in 2023 during an event marking Women's Day celebrations in José C. Paz, a suburb in Greater Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  “Nobody is happy with the IMF understanding, we all despise the Fund,” Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez admitted “nobody is happy” with the latest understanding reached with the International Monetary Fund, but under no circumstances does it condition the Argentine government economic policy, finally confessing he “despises” the IMF.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  IMF deal draft due at Argentine Congress Thursday

  

  Argentina's Finance Ministry looked all set Wednesday to send over to Congress the intended deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it was reported. But it was still unclear how things would play out since the ruling Frente de Todos does not have an absolute majority in either House.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  CFK decries double standards within UN Security Council regarding Ukraine and Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Sunday said Western powers had double standards when addressing the Ukraine crisis. The former head of state (2007-2015) recalled that in 2014 -under her presidency-, Argentina supported Kyiv against Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula by force.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner still complaining about Falklands' 2013 referendum

  

  Argentina's main leader and vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled on Sunday in Twitter that her government strongly supported Ukraine back in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, but also complained about the double standard of the “great powers” in their stance regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands issue.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 22:55 UTC

  Cristina Fernández indicted in case of alleged bribes

  

  A Federal Argentine Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal filed by the former president (2007-2015) and current vice president of the South American country, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in relation to the so-called “case of the notebooks”.