Tag: Cristina Fernandez

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  Ecuador’s Correa and El Salvador’ Funes, leaders with the highest approval-rate

  

  Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and El Salvador Mauricio Funes have the highest approval ratings with 80% and 72% among presidents of the Americas, according to a report from Consulta Mitofsky. At the other extreme stand Sebastian Piñera from Chile, Laura Chinchilla from Costa Rica and Paraguayan Federico Franco with the lowest support.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  There will be a Grand Prix in Argentina “when I can deal with serious people”

  

  There will the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Argentina “when I can deal with serious people” said the industry’s pope, Bernie Ecclestone following on Argentina’s aspirations to be included in the competition’s coming calendar.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 02:06 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández arrived on Sunday to the United States for a five-day visit, including her participation in the United Nations General Assembly to be held in the city of New York on Tuesday.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 01:44 UTC

  Opposition begins to organize to prevent the re-re-election of Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine Radical party chairman Mario Barletta said on Sunday that “he is really convinced” that the government of President Cristina Fernandez will advance with a constitutional reform bill and highlighted the petition campaign that the party is carrying out in order to express its discontent.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:32 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez off to the UN General Assembly to claim Malvinas sovereignty

  

  President Cristina Fernandez leaves this weekend for New York to attend the UN General Assembly where two of the main issues of the Argentine agenda will be the Malvinas Islands claim and AMIA, the terrorist attack on an Argentine Jewish institution in which allegedly Iran could have been involved.

• Thursday, September 20th 2012 - 22:59 UTC

  Finance minister tells Congress world crisis will not affect Argentina

  

  Finance minister Hernan Lorenzino said on Thursday that the international crisis will not affect Argentina and attributed this to the policy of drastically cutting the country’s sovereign debt which now stands at only 40% of GDP.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2012 - 05:20 UTC

  Argentina inflation expectations 30% and 20 percentage points above official index

  

  Argentina's 12-month inflation expectations held steady for a seventh consecutive month at 30% in September, according to the median estimate in a survey published by the Torcuato Di Tella University, UTDT. However after three steady months expectations eased with the average response sliding to 34.9% from 39.8% in August.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2012 - 07:02 UTC

  In 2015, “if it’s not Cristina, it will be whoever Cristina nominates as candidate”

  

  The possibility of a constitutional review in Argentina opening the way for the re-re-election of President Cristina Fernandez was again put to consideration by one of her staunch followers who nevertheless anticipated “if it’s not Cristina, in 2015 it will be whoever Cristina nominates as candidate”.

• Monday, September 17th 2012 - 01:25 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez lawmaker says “no formal decision” on constitutional reform

  

  A close advisor to President Cristina Fernandez lawmaker Carlos Kunkel defended the possibility of amendments to the 1994 Argentine constitution but cautioned that “no formal decision about it has been made on a congressional or party level.”

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 05:02 UTC

  A front to counter Argentine presidential re-re-election attempts begins to take shape

  

  Argentine main opposition groups, parties and unions, have been rallying in an attempt to counter the alleged intentions of the Cristina Fernandez administration to sponsor a constitutional reform that would enable her to bid for a third consecutive presidential mandate in 2015.