Tag: Cristina Kirchner

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Nisman's death controversy reignited: “there isn't a shred of proof” he was murdered, says president Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday he doubts that a prosecutor who died two days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre committed suicide. But he insisted “there isn't a shred of proof” that Alberto Nisman was murdered, as his family insists.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina: calls for a rational transition starting O-28 and the pancake syndrome

  

  On Sunday 33.8 million Argentines will vote for a president, for the renewal of the 130 members of the Lower House and a third of the Senate, 24 out of 72. But results should come as no surprise since a majority of the Argentine electorate has zapped to an old déjà vu show, fed up with president Mauricio Macri and his pro-business policies.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro warns next Argentine government: Mercosur must continue with Macri's trade policies

  

  A possible victory of opposition candidate Alberto Fernández in Argentina's presidential election on Sunday could put the Mercosur trade bloc at risk, Brazil's right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Wednesday.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina's opposition confirms and displays a unified front in a massive rally

  

  With less than ten days for the Argentine presidential election, the catch-all Peronist movement that has dominated the country's political scene for decades managed a family picture with all groupings united in support of the presidential ticket headed by Alberto Fernandez and ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Hundreds of women dress up as Eva Peron in support of Argentina's opposition

  

  Women dressed as Eva Peron, old political anthems blaring in the streets, flash-mobs with step-perfect choreography - it's all part of the present-day cut and thrust of politics in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner leads call to free ex Brazil president Lula da Silva

  

  Presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez and running-mate Cristina Kirchner led calls by dozens of Argentine personalities on Tuesday to free Brazil's jailed leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Human rights activists, lawmakers, trade unionists, artists and scientists signed a petition published in the left-leaning Pagina 12 daily.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Another corruption charge for ex president Cristina Fernandez: fraudulent import of liquid gas

  

  Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner was charged in yet another corruption investigation on Monday, in this case over the fraudulent import of liquid gas. Judge Claudio Bonadio, who Cristina Kirchner accuses of political persecution, requested that the ex-president be placed in pre-trial detention, but her partial immunity as a senator shields her from imprisonment.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Macri's father and brother to testify in court over alleged corruption practices

  

  The brother and father of Argentina's President Mauricio Macri are to testify in court this week over their alleged involvement in a huge kickbacks scandal known as the “corruption notebooks” case, reports said on Monday.

• Saturday, June 26th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  Plain and clear: the Kirchner couple planning for the next ten years

  

  Former president Nestor Kirchner said Argentina needs a “strategic project for the next ten years” and forecasted that investors will arrive knowing the country has an established proven development model.