Tag: Hugo Moyano

• 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.

• 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.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  “You only have to fear God: and me a little bit”, Cristina Fernandez scolds ministers

  

  “You only have to fear God, and me a little bit, at least while you are staff that depends from me”, said Argentine President Cristina Fernández publicly voicing her discontent towards some of her cabinet members after a court order interrupted a series of public works in the Buenos Aires province.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 05:12 UTC

  Argentina consumers’ 12-month inflation expectations reach 39.8%

  

  Argentine consumers’ inflation expectations for the next twelve months reached a record of 39.8% climbing for the third month running, according to the latest release from the University of Torcuato Di Tella.

• Thursday, August 9th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  For Argentine unions, food basket inflation is 52% higher than the official index

  

  Argentine organized labour CGT, announced that based on their own analysis of the products that make up the basic food basket, on average they are 52% more expensive than those analyzed by the official statistics office, Indec

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentine union leader confesses he never believed in the “official inflation rate”

  

  Argentina’s Metal workers union (UOM) leader Antonio Caló said on Thursday he “never believed in the (official stats office) Indec” and openly estimated that inflation in the country is running at “23% to 24%”.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentine organized labour divided but fearful of Cristina Fernandez intentions

  

  Argentine union leaders said that the conflict inside the CGT umbrella organization is “purely political” and claimed that President Cristina Fernandez is after a “divided and passive” organized labour movement.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:14 UTC

  To vote again for Cristina Fernandez would be a “masochist act” says Moyano

  

  Argentine CGT Labour Confederation head Hugo Moyano said on Wednesday that he would not vote again for President Cristina Fernández but nevertheless sent her a letter requesting she receives the new CGT board which the government does not recognize.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Argentine pro-government unions don’t trust Cristina’s stats and official inflation

  

  Despite having managed to split organized labour and declared war on its most powerful exponent the teamsters boss Hugo Moyano, the government of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez still has to deal with its unconvincing stats office and rampant inflation.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  Moyano says unions will have their own stats office to keep track of inflation

  

  Argentina’s organized labour CGT leader Hugo Moyano began on Monday his new term at the helm of the umbrella union organization and once again targeted the government of President Cristina Fernandez promising to set up his own Indec (stats office) to measure inflation.