Tag: Kirchner

Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 07:49 UTC
Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter

Argentine vice president Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter who has been under medical treatment in Havana for a year. The two immediately left for their home where they will comply with the mandatory fourteen day self isolation for any passengers arriving in Argentina from overseas because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Talks in Geneva for further remains identifications at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery

Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks in Geneva, with the International Red Cross for a new agreement on the identification of soldiers' remains in the Argentine Memorial cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands, where there is still at least one grave with uncertainty as to the name/names of who are buried.
Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:56 UTC
Cristina Fernandez: Argentina will not pay “even half a cent” of its IMF debt until the country exits recession

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said on Saturday in Havana that the government will not pay “even half a cent” of its debt back to the International Monetary Fund before the country has exited recession.
Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 17:48 UTC
The Argentine judge who prosecuted vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dead

Argentine federal judge Claudio Bonadio, notorious for bringing cases involving the former president and current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), died Tuesday morning at his home it was reported.
Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:59 UTC
Despite the rhetoric, Argentina close military collaboration with the US and Brazil

Last week the Argentine lower house of Congress, voted 214–2 to allow the “entry of foreign troops” and the participation of Argentine troops in exercises abroad. Several of the military exercises listed in the bill are being organized and financed by the Pentagon.
Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 13:44 UTC
Evo Morales cries “privatization” despite terms of his asylum in Argentina

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales, now under political asylum in Buenos Aires, claimed Friday on Twitter that his country's interim government, headed by Jeanine Añez, intends to privatize companies and natural resources.
Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Fernandez unveils his cabinet and heterodox economic team with a growth led recovery plan

Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez unveiled his cabinet and new central bank chief on Friday evening, laying out his core team days before the center-left leader takes office facing a stalled economy, rising debt fears and painful inflation.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 19:32 UTC
Fernández's government “won't change” its vision regarding Venezuela for debt renegotiation

The Peronist Felipe Solá, one of the candidates for minister of foreign affairs in the government of the president-elect of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said Monday that the next administration, to renegotiate the debt, will not change its vision regarding Venezuela.
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.
Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 08:52 UTC
Argentina’s Economic Crisis: Who to blame?

Argentines remember the role the IMF played in the last depression. They also remember the improvement in their lives under Kirchnerism. The following was published by The New York Times.