Tag: Mauricio Macri

• 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.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Multilateralism, Iran, Venezuela and Falklands in Macri's address to the UN General Assembly

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri defended the trade agreement of Mercosur with the European Union, as part of his government's strategy to open Argentina to the world, demanded Iran cooperates with the judicial system to help clear the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires, condemned the Venezuelan dictatorship of president Nicolas Maduro and called on the United Kingdom for dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, although reaffirming his country's “legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the South Atlantic Islands.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Macri holds a 'constructive meeting' with IMF, but no news about the pending tranche of a major loan

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri met with his International Monetary Fund backers in New York on Tuesday, but there was little light shed on whether the body was likely to approve a key US$ 5.4 billion tranche of funds to the indebted country.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 17:32 UTC

  Argentine research vessel Eduardo L. Holmberg sets sail on mackerel mission

  

  After its repair at the Tandanor Shipyard and a series of adjustments in Mar del Plata, the Eduardo L. Holmberg fishing research boat of Argentina's National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) Monday set sail on a mission to evaluate mackerel (Scomber colias), it was reported.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Argentina Needs Intensive Care

  

  By Anne Krueger (*) - Argentina's President Mauricio Macri knew that he had inherited a sick economy when he took office in 2015, but failed to take his medicine. As a result, the country now has no choice but to face up to a period of painful structural adjustment.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentine president's wife trip to Spain viewed as preparation for future exile

  

  Argentina's political future seems to be no mystery regarding the upcoming October 27 presidential elections. So much so that First Lady Juliana Awada's snap trip Sunday to Madrid citing entertainment and social engagements was announced by the media as a preparation for a post December 10 exile that looks inevitable after the outcome of the August 11 primaries.