Tag: Luis D’Elía

• Saturday, January 13th 2018 - 07:58 UTC

  Argentine union leaders warn Macri, and forecast he may not end his mandate

  

  The Argentine government approach to the power challenge from strong unions has managed so far to have several of its leaders indicted for money laundering, fraud, racketeering and widespread corruption, including one who is jailed in neighboring Uruguay and which the Argentine justice expects to extradite.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  Judge indicts Cristina Fernandez for treason and puts Timerman under house arrest

  

  A federal judge in Argentina indicted former President Cristina Fernandez for treason and asked for her arrest for allegedly covering up Iran’s possible role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people and injured hundreds, a court ruling said.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Macri accuses the Argentine government of a fear-mongering campaign

  

  Argentine opposition candidate Mauricio Macri accused the ruling party of fear mongering after a weekend barrage of online attack ads warned he would throw people off welfare and reduce living standards by devaluing the currency. The same kind of spots were reiterated during the final match of the Argentine football league.

• Wednesday, February 19th 2014 - 04:48 UTC

  Kirchnerite picket leader tells Maduro he should have Lopez shot for being a traitor and CIA agent

  

  An Argentine picket leader closely aligned with the administration of President Cristina Fernandez openly supported the Venezuelan government of president Nicolas Maduro and called for the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to be sentenced to a firing squad.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2013 - 10:55 UTC

  Timerman denies any Argentine government plot to discredit election of Francis

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman rejected allegations about an alleged “discrediting operation” by Argentina’s ambassador to the Vatican Juan Pablo Cafiero to stop the election of former Buenos Aires city archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope and denied that the government has changed its opinion about now Francis.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Kirchner ‘social grassroots leader” proposes celebrating “Son of the b… Day”

  

  A thug described as a “social grassroots leader” belonging to the Kirchner couple’s ‘black shirts’ cadres has proposed Argentina celebrate August 2 as the Day of the “Son of a b….” which is when former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was born.