Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:45 UTC

  Loyal unions give Argentine government 40 days to raise the income tax floor

  

  The branch of Argentina’s organized labour that supports President Cristina Fernandez gave the government forty days to raise the income tax floor, which with double digit inflation is including an ever increasing number of wage earners.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:20 UTC

  CFK’s positive image “rapidly melting”; Macri rising to main opposition reference

  

  The melting of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, positive image is increasing and has fallen to 37%, while the mayor of Buenos Aires City is increasingly occupying the position of head of the opposition, according to comments from Sergio Berensztein, head of Poliarquía one of the most respected pollsters in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 01:55 UTC

  Argentine soft-porn film star named as official ambassador of pop culture

  

  In one of her latest surprise moves to prop gender and culture, President Cristina Fernandez has named soft-core porn film star Isabel Sarli, as the country’s official ambassador of pop culture.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 20:34 UTC

  Brazil’s slowdown impacts on neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay says Fitch

  

  Brazil's deeper-than-expected economic slowdown is amplifying the deceleration already being experienced by Argentina and Uruguay as a result of the global slowdown, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 03:41 UTC

  Ambassador Castro delivered credentials to Queen Elizabeth in ‘warm meeting’

  

  Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, delivered on Tuesday her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II in a meeting deemed as “warm,” that will help improve bilateral relations between both countries.

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  Global editors warn on ongoing campaign in Argentina against independent media

  

  The Global Editors Network (GEN) called on the world’s media to focus attention on a press freedom crisis in Argentina where independent journalism is facing a major threat on 7 December 2012, the day announced by the government for the break-up of the Clarin Group, the country’s main independent media organization.

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 00:46 UTC

  Argentine energy policy further limits methanol production in south Chile

  

  Canada’s Methanex Corporation announced on Thursday that because of severe restrictions in the provision of natural gas to its plant in the extreme south of Chile, Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, the company is forced to another re-structuring which will leave 48 people redundant.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 20:53 UTC

  Cristina, get serious

  

  By Jorge Araya - The Argentine president’s misguided perspective threatens her country.
  (The following piece was published in the Harvard Crimson from Harvard University. It is considered the US oldest continuously published daily college newspaper, was founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967).

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 00:03 UTC

  Designer brands fleeing from Argentina’s imports and exchange restrictions

  

  Kenzo, Louis Vuitton, Armani, Calvin Klein, Polo Ralph Lauren, Cartier are some of the designer luxury brands that have left or are leaving Argentina forced by the very strict import restrictions and money exchange controls.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ruffling feathers with the Falklands to mask domestic failings

  

  Several British newspapers have turned their eyes on Argentina arguing that the challenging situation faced by President Cristina Fernandez both domestically and internationally is making her increasingly take advantage of the Falkland Islands dispute as a smokescreen to mask domestic failings.