Tag: Mauricio Macri

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Macri pledges to Malvinas relatives that Argentina will continue to struggle for the Islands' sovereignty

  

  President Mauricio Macri received at the Olivos residence the relatives of the 90 soldiers buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands and pledged that Argentina will continue to struggle for the sovereignty and recovery of the Islands.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:28 UTC

  The Economist: Mauricio Macri fights Argentina’s tradition of handouts for votes

  

  Just off Leonardo da Vinci Avenue, a long street of modest shops and foul-smelling gutters in the district of La Matanza outside Buenos Aires, stands La Juanita, a co-operative. Founded by unemployed workers in 2001, it occupies a former school.

• Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentina expanded 2.9% last year; 2018 challenging given the persistent drought effect on crops

  

  Argentina's economy expanded 2.9% in 2017 from the prior year and 3.9% in the fourth quarter versus the same period in 2016, the Indec statistics agency said this week. The year-over-year figure was slightly above the 2.8% annual growth rate given last month by Argentina's monthly economic activity indicator, seen as a proxy for gross domestic product.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  Macri announces debt relief for farmers struggling with drought

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri said the government would provide some debt relief to farmers struggling through what he described as the country’s worst drought in 40 years, which has resulted in dramatic cuts to soybean and corn crop outlooks.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:06 UTC

  Hammond and Johnson will be visiting Argentina

  

  British Chancellor Philip Hammond and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are scheduled to visit Argentina as part of the G20 ministerial round of meetings in coming weeks, announced UK ambassador Mark Kent following talks on Thursday with foreign minister Jorge Faurie.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 06:56 UTC

  “Legacy” argument no longer stands for the Macri government, warns political analyst

  

  The argument of the “legacy” from the Kirchner years no longer stands, since normally on the third year of an elected government public opinion becomes more demanding, explained Argentine political analyst Rosendo Fraga commenting on the latest events in Argentina and the administration of president Mauricio Macri.

• Monday, March 5th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Macri's ¨coffin¨ and insulting songs MMSOB, the latest fad in Argentine football stadiums

  

  The police of Argentina's second city, Rosario seized four cardboard “coffins” one of them with the name of president Mauricio Macri, before a football match of the Argentine premier league, involving one of the city's leading teams Rosario Central.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Macri confirms gradualist approach to economic reforms in speech to Congress

  

  In his speech to Congress marking the opening of this year’s legislative session, Argentine president Mauricio Macri defended his business-friendly government’s so-called “gradualist” approach to economic reforms from critics who argue he should move faster to cut government spending and lower taxes in order to boost growth and attract investment.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 09:56 UTC

  Menem forecasts Peronism will rise from the ashes and be government in 2019

  

  Former Argentine president Carlos Menem rated the government of Cristina Fernandez one, out of a scale of ten, and with a smile told a CNN interviewer that all Argentine governments had been exposed to corruption except his. He also anticipated that Peronism will “rise from the ashes” and return to government in 2019.

• Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 06:32 UTC

  Argentina's foreign policy according to Jorge Faurie: Intelligent Insertion

  

  Argentina foreign minister Jorge Faurie has written a long column, (full tabloid page) in Buenos Aires daily Clarin, under the heading of “Intelligent Insertion” describing motives and objectives of the country's foreign policy under president Mauricio Macri, driven by the principle of an intelligent insertion in the international scenario. The final commitment of Macri's administration is reducing poverty and improving Argentines' life quality.