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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 00:11 UTC

Tag: Mauricio Macri

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 22:08 UTC

    British PM expected in BA Thursday evening

    Theresa May will become the first British Prime Minister ever to visit Buenos Aires.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May is arriving Thursday evening at the Ezeiza Airport to participate in the G20 Leaders Summit hosted by Argentina, during which she will hold a series of bilateral meetings with some of her peers, including President Mauricio Macri.

  • Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 20:11 UTC

    Air link from Cordoba to the Falklands confirmed by UK and Argentina

    This additional regular flight is part of a “gradual trust-building process, aimed at strengthening links between mainland Argentina and the Islands.”

    The governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom reached an understanding to establish a second commercial air link to the islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) confirmed on Tuesday followed by an official statement of the embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 21:39 UTC

    Dollar climbs in Argentina as Macri worries about football violence

    Macri was publicly addressing the issue of football violence flanked by Ministers Patricia Bullrich and Germán Garavano while the US dollar was going up against the Argentine peso.

    Buenos Aires was still shaking around noon Monday from the weekend's Libertadores Cup fiasco. President Mauricio Macri was publicly addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference escorted by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Germán Garavano. And with the spotlight there, the US dollar crept back up against the Argentine peso after a two-month nadir, closing at AR$ 39.9 per 1 US dollar at the end of the business day.

  • Sunday, November 25th 2018 - 14:29 UTC

    Argentine football hooligans bring shame to their country days before G-20 Summit

    Left: The Boca Juniors bus under attack from hooligans. Right: Boca's Pablo Pérez as he returned to the stadium from the clinic released the picture on social media.

    River Plate hooligans attacked the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players to the Monumental stadium Saturday afternoon for the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final, causing injuries to some of them, which resulted in the suspension of the game and its eventual rescheduling for Sunday at 5 pm local time.

  • Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 14:37 UTC

    The only real “Summit” in Buenos Aires is hours away

    One half of Argentines will have won the battle of all battles, the derby of all derbies and the other will bite the dust of defeat.

    Fake bomb threats, loose World War II grenades, actual explosions that kill nobody and leave one perpetrator seriously injured at a cemetery, the mayor's entourage becoming 35 percent wealthier on average since in office, airline strikes, and the looming G20 Summit with the most prominent world leaders all in one place, an air traffic ban in addition to land circulation restrictions are just a part of the landscape to the people of Buenos Aires who are becoming more and more used to living in a war-like zone since the beginning of the century.

  • Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 12:46 UTC

    South Korean President confirms attending BA G-20 Summit, will meet Macri and hopefully Trump

    Moon-Macri will be the first meeting between heads of state of both countries in 14 years.

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in has confirmed he will be attending the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires next week, during which he will meet President Mauricio Macri in the first encounter of heads of state from both countries in 14 years, a spokesperson for his office announced.

  • Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

    CFK: Macri merely a manager of policies imposed from abroad

    “Today, supermarkets are literally empty,” said CFK at the anti-G20 Summit.

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández Kirchner (CFK) Monday criticized the administration of her successor Mauricio Macri in a speech that lasted over an hour at the anti-G20 summit in Buenos Aires, saying - among other things - that by taking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the current president merely manages what is dictated to him.

  • Friday, November 16th 2018 - 18:18 UTC

    Macri vows not to give up on ARA San Juan but knows words can't heal pain

    Macri praised the “courage and professionalism of each of the 44 crew” members.

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri that nothing he would “say could take away the pain” off relatives and friends of the 44 crewmembers of the ARA San Juan submarine which was last heard of on November 15, 2017.

  • Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 21:05 UTC

    Double victory for Argentina's Macri ahead of the G20 leaders' summit

    For Macri the Senate vote means he can comfortably host G20 leaders' summit and comply with the confidence deposited on him by US, China and the EU

    Argentina's Senate on Thursday gave final approval to an unpopular austerity budget designed to meet the stiff requirements of a US$ 57.1 billion International Monetary Fund bailout. Approval came as a great relief for battered president Mauricio Macri, but also a double victory, since it opens the way for his reelection aspirations next year.

  • Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

    Argentina's Senate approves austerity budget agreed with IMF

    Social movements called protests in the vicinity of the Congress

    After 13 hours of debate, the Argentine Senate approved the draft Public Administration Budget for 2019 early on Thursday. The project, presented by Mauricio Macri’s government, went ahead with 45 votes in favor, 24 against and just one abstention.