Tag: Mauricio Macri

• Monday, October 14th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentina recognizes Guaidó's ambassador as Venezuelan government representative

  

  Elisa Trotta is the new Venezuelan ambassador in Argentina, following the acceptance of her Credentials by Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie. According to an Argentine foreign ministry release, Ms Trotta will make her official presentation to president Mauricio Macri sometime this week.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  “Argentina's financial downturn is a crisis of confidence in political institutions”

  

  Argentina's financial crisis has been exacerbated by the political uncertainty facing the country with its president Mauricio Macri now most likely to be voted out of office at the national elections at the end of the month. However, according to Claudio Zuchovicki, the secretary-general of the Iberoamerican Stock Exchange Federation, the financial downturn is mostly a crisis of confidence in political institutions.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina: Oil industry fearful of tariffs' freezing as suggested by Alberto Fernandez advisors

  

  Argentina's front-running candidate for president, Alberto Fernandez, has been asked by advisors within his left-leaning coalition to freeze natural gas and power tariffs and to peg oil product prices to pesos instead of dollars as measures to contain inflation and spur economic growth.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Opinion Polls in Argentina indicate Fernandez will be the next president

  

  Caution minded since Argentine public opinion polls were so far off the mark during the August Primary mandatory elections which triggered the current major political and financial upheaval in the country...

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  The IMF after Argentina

  

  By Kenneth Rogoff (*) - It’s high time to ask how to refocus the International Monetary Fund’s mandate for dealing with emerging-market debt crises. How can the IMF be effective in helping countries regain access to private credit markets when any attempt to close unsustainable budget deficits is labeled austerity?

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Some 15.8 million Argentines living in poverty according to the latest data

  

  Poverty in Argentina rose to 35.4% of the population in the first half of the year, the highest officially recorded level since 2001, the INDEC national statistics bureau reported today. This means that some 15.8 million Argentines are now considered poor, INDEC's data indicates. At the end of 2018, 32% of Argentines were said to be living in poverty.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's recurring nightmare

  

  By Andrés Bello (*) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri seems almost certain to lose his country’s presidential election next month, after committing the same kinds of economic policy mistakes that so many of his Peronist predecessors made. It is a tragic and catastrophically disappointing denouement.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Macri launches his presidential campaign convinced “Yes, I can win”

  

  Argentina’s embattled President Mauricio Macri took to the streets on Saturday with a defiant message: “Yes we can,” he told crowds of supporters in Buenos Aires as he looks to launch an unlikely comeback ahead of general elections next month.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 06:41 UTC

  Argentine ruling coalition wins election in Mendoza, but keeps Macri well away

  

  The province of Mendoza has delivered to the Argentine ruling coalition of president Mauricio Macri a much needed great stimulus with its landslide governorship victory.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Resumption of Argentina's financial program with IMF frozen... and “will have to wait”

  

  Argentina’s financial program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be on hold for some time as the nation grapples with severe political and economic uncertainty, the Fund’s Acting Managing Director David Lipton said an interview.