Tag: Mauricio Macri

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 13:10 UTC

  Argentina will honor payments this week of bonds totaling some US$ 850 million

  

  The Argentine government announced that this week it will honor payments of some US$ 850 million, which correspond to two different sovereign bonds, one of them a century maturing bond issued in 2017 during the administration of ex-president Mauricio Macri.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentine individuals and corporations hold some 322.3 billion dollars outside the domestic financial system

  

  Argentines ever so suspicious of their currency and so fully confident in the all mighty US dollar, they have some US$ 322 billion hidden in the “mattress”, which means mostly overseas in bonds, shares, real estate, according to the latest figures released by the country's stats office, Indec.

• Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Peronism is back in Argentina: Alberto Fernández assumes as President

  

  Peronism will return to power in Argentina from Tuesday. The political force will do it in the hands of the elected President, Alberto Fernández, who will go to the Casa Rosada, the presidential headquarters, at noon after presenting the oath in the Congress to the outgoing vice president, Gabriela Michetti

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Macri and Fernandez embrace, for a few seconds, at the Lujan Basilica

  

  Outgoing Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his successor Alberto Fernandez embraced for a few seconds on Sunday at the Lujan Basilica, the country's main sanctuary to the Virgin Mary. The gesture was minimum and a few seconds but it was done on request from the Catholic Church.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Macri addresses the Mercosur summit for the last time

  

  In what was his last international activity, outgoing president Mauricio Macri attended the 55th Mercosur leaders summit in Bento Goncalves, southern Brazil, which he described as a special diplomatic occasion for his administration's strive to put Argentina back in the wide world map.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Paraguay takes the chair of a quarrelsome strained Mercosur

  

  Brazil on Thursday handed over the six-month rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc (Southern Common Market) to Paraguay. During a ceremony at the bloc's 55th summit in Bento Goncalves, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro expressed confidence in his Paraguayan counterpart Mario Abdo Benitez and his leadership skills.

• Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina's central bank chief Guido Sandleris resigns ahead of the new government

  

  Argentina central bank chief Guido Sandleris resigned on Wednesday, an expected step as Latin America’s third-largest economy transitions to Peronism next week under newly elected President Alberto Fernandez.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina and UK agree to extend Humanitarian Plan to identify remains in multiple grave

  

  The outgoing government of Argentine president Mauricio Macri and the United Kingdom are in talks for an extension of the humanitarian plan which, with Falkland Islands consent and under the guidance of the International Committee of the Red Cross had enabled the identification of 115 remains buried in the Islands with the sole reference, “Argentine soldier, only known to God”, the tragic legacy of the 1982 conflict.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez renounces to IMF loan: “I want to stop asking for money”

  

  Argentina's president-elect Alberto Fernandez said on Tuesday he would renounce the remaining US$11 billion tranches of the country's International Monetary Fund loan as soon as he takes office next month.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2019 - 21:05 UTC

  Bolivia warns Argentina of possible shortage in gas supply due to seizure of plants

  

  The Bolivian state-run oil company YPFB Monday notified Argentina that due to the taking over of some of its facilities in the hands of the groups leading to the overthrow of President Evo Morales, there could be problems with the supply of gas. But the Mauricio Macri administration sees no reason to fear shortages thanks to the reserves stocked, it was reported.