Tag: Mauricio Macri President

• Monday, June 6th 2016 - 14:44 UTC

  Presidential arrhythmia: 'Stress' and 'ministers who make the president's blood to boil'

  

  Argentina's presidential medical team and the head of the powerful trade unions umbrella organization gave their opinions on what could have caused President Mauricio Macri's heart arrhythmia and heart tests that followed and forced him to rest over the weekend.

• Monday, June 6th 2016 - 11:01 UTC

  Support for Macri remains strong despite tough economic measures

  

  A majority of Argentines continue to support president Mauricio Macri despite a raft of unpopular measures, public utilities rate increases, inflation, redundancies and slower activity, which his administration has been forced to implement in the first six months of his mandate in an attempt to reorganize the country's economy.

• Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 09:05 UTC

  Macri suffers a mild arrhythmia; back in Olivos after hospital checkup

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri was taken to hospital on Friday to be evaluated by doctors after he suffered a “mild arrhythmia”, or irregular heartbeats, the government said.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 07:30 UTC

  Macri pledges to repatriate overseas savings in Bahamas and buy Argentine bonds

  

  President Mauricio Macri said Monday that he will repatriate $1.3 million in savings from the Bahamas and use the money to buy Argentine treasury bonds because he is confident the struggling economy will recover and thrive.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 06:51 UTC

  “Argentina needs its armed forces for peace; they have been ignored for years”, says Macri on Army Day

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri said Monday that Argentina needs armed forces adapted to the 21st century, ready to carry out peace missions and come to the rescue in times of disaster, after “years” of being ignored by the government. He made the statement at an Army Day event.

• Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 05:53 UTC

  Falklands claim and UN chief post bid', “not incompatible” for Argentine minister Malcorra

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra said on Friday she believes there's no conflict of interest between her bid to be the next U.N. secretary-general and her ministerial work including pressing Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 05:03 UTC

  Macri's government in “100% agreement” with the Church's dialogue message

  

  Argentina's cabinet chief Marcos Pena said president Mauricio Macri administration was “100% in agreement” with the Catholic church 25 May Day message “to leave aside statistics, think in the Argentine people and not fight among ourselves”.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Macri's administration admits the Catholic church criticism of Argentina's 'labor market fragility'

  

  Leaders from Argentina's ruling “Let‘s Change” (Cambiemos) administration acknowledged on Tuesday that the country is “going through the worst time” yet since president Mauricio Macri took office but also underlined all the measures that have been taken over the last few months to overcome the situation.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2016 - 08:05 UTC

  Macri's Argentina and Temer's Brazil seal close political and working relationship

  

  Argentina and the new interim government of Brazil sealed this Monday their close relationship when foreign minister Jose Serra in a brief visit to Buenos Aires, his first overseas trip, met privately with President Mauricio Macri. . Earlier in the day the Brazilian official signed a memorandum of understanding for a bilateral mechanism of political coordination with his peer Susana Malcorra.

• Saturday, May 21st 2016 - 08:46 UTC

  Malcorra successfully completes negotiations with China and meets on Monday in Buenos Aires with Serra

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra held another round of talks with high level Chinese officers in Beijing, as part of her official visit to China to promote trade, investment and the special strategic relation between the two countries. But also cut short her visit to other countries to be back in Buenos Aires next Monday in time to meet with her new Brazilian peer, Jose Serra to address the bilateral agenda and Mercosur among other issues.