Tag: Ernesto Samper

• Monday, August 4th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

  Ernesto Samper pays CFK a visit at Buenos Aires apartment

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) was visited at the apartment where she is under house arrest by former Colombian President Ernesto Samper and former Ecuadorean National Assembly Speaker Gabriela Rivadeneira.

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Puebla Group supports CFK at Buenos Aires gathering

  

  The Puebla Group Tuesday expressed its support to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) during a convention at Buenos Aires' Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK).

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:23 UTC

  Puebla Group approaches Argentine President to funnel agenda

  

  The forum bringing together leftwing leaders known as the Puebla Group is to bring Argentine President Alberto Fernández a proposal for the convergence of the different integration mechanisms existing in the region, former Colombian President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) announced Friday.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Former Cali Cartel capo dies in US prison

  

  Wednesday's death at a US prison of former Cali Cartel capo Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, aka El Ajedrecista (The Chessman), who used to wage his own war against rival trafficker Pablo Escobar of the Medellín Cartel, has revived stories of the 1980s and 1990s which have been romanticized through the entertainment industry.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  CFK: Macri merely a manager of policies imposed from abroad

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández Kirchner (CFK) Monday criticized the administration of her successor Mauricio Macri in a speech that lasted over an hour at the anti-G20 summit in Buenos Aires, saying - among other things - that by taking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the current president merely manages what is dictated to him.

• Sunday, April 30th 2017 - 09:02 UTC

  Unasur to be purged of its “ideological bias”, anticipates Paraguay

  

  Paraguay has stated it is time to put an end to the “ideological bias” of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, and recover its integration profile which was the main purpose of its creation. A foreign ministers summit of the region will address and advance the issue.

• Monday, May 16th 2016 - 05:46 UTC

  Brazil warns neighbors about “propagating falsehoods over the internal political process”

  

  Brazil's interim government dismissed criticism by populist countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia, over the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended as president by the senate.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 08:12 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Unasur message in support of Argentina's claims

  

  Unasur and Argentina made public on Tuesday a letter dated last 5 April in which the regional group' Secretary General and former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, strongly supports Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands plus the adjoining maritime spaces.

• Friday, April 17th 2015 - 04:40 UTC

  Unasur opens Defense School to elaborate a shared doctrine of peace and stability

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur will celebrate this Friday its eighth anniversary with the official opening of the South American Defense School (Esude) created to instruct on defense and security issues, both at civil and military level, following 'the principles of a regional strategic vision'.

• Tuesday, November 11th 2014 - 04:16 UTC

  Unasur ready to help Venezuela organize a “major social pact” to overcome the current situation

  

  Venezuela needs a 'major social agreement' to adjust its economy and overcome the current and persistent political conflicts in the country, said Ernesto Samper, chairman of Unasur (Union of South American Nations) during a visit to Brasilia.