Tag: Mauricio Macri

Friday, June 28th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
IMF's financial deal with Argentina “harmful” and will be “reworked”, anticipates main opposition candidate

Alberto Fernandez, the main challenger to incumbent President Mauricio Macri in October elections, said on Thursday that if elected he would seek to “rework” Argentina’s huge financing deal with the International Monetary Fund, calling it “harmful.”
Friday, June 28th 2019 - 09:22 UTC
Argentine president Macri meets IMF's Lagarde at the G20 summit in Japan

The IMF through its spokesperson at its daily press meeting confirmed that Managing Director Christine Lagarde and her deputy David Lipton effectively met with Argentine president Mauricio Macri, and Economy minister, Nicolás Dujovne at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina claims Boris Johnson is willing to dialogue on the Falklands issue

Boris Johnson, the leading candidate in the current process to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister is open to dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, said Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie during a meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:51 UTC
The Economist: “In Argentina, the IMF has been neither toxic nor triumphant”

“What good is it to throw a man ten feet of rope if he is drowning in 20 feet of water?” asked Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist of the IMF, to The Economist 15 years ago. His question still bothers the institution he used to advise.
Monday, June 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Argentina lines up for the August primaries; three leading presidential tickets

Months of intense political negotiations and last minute nerve breaking deals came to an end in Argentina on Sunday's zero hour deadline, when the different political groupings had to present to electoral authorities their list of presidential hopefuls, as well as future lawmakers.
Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:46 UTC
Unemployment in Argentina jumps to 10.1% in the first quarter of 2019

Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 10.1% in the first quarter from 9.1% in the first three months of last year, the official INDEC statistics agency said. This is the highest level since current president Mauricio Macri took office, and the worst in thirteen years.
Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 09:59 UTC
Argentine political scenario prepares for the October presidential election

Argentine politician Sergio Massa, who recently pledged his support to the main opposition challengers to President Mauricio Macri, is in line to play a key role in the country's Congress if his new allies win national elections later this year.
Monday, June 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Massive blackout hits Mercosur; Argentina and Uruguay in the dark for six hours; major investigation promised

A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and parts of Chile and southern Brazil on Sunday. The Argentine president called it an “unprecedented” failure in the countries' interconnected power grid.
Monday, June 17th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Argentine authorities admit they have yet to detect the cause of the major blackout

Argentina's Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui described the massive blackout suffered mostly by Argentina and Uruguay, but which also affected areas of neighbouring countries, Paraguay, Chile and Brazil as “an extraordinary event that should have never happened, there are no reasons for it occurring and leaving Argentina completely in the black”.
Wednesday, June 12th 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Macri stuns Argentina and markets with his vice presidential candidate, a respected leader of the opposition in Congress

President Mauricio Macri stunned Argentines and markets on Tuesday by naming the head of the congressional opposition as his vice-presidential candidate in October's general election. Miguel Angel Pichetto, a 68-year-old lawyer and Senator from the province of Rio Negro has been a loyal and pragmatic member of the Peronist movement since he started in politics in the early eighties.