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Montevideo, June 30th 2026 - 10:28 UTC

Tag: Mauricio Macri

  • Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 10:58 UTC

    “Mercosur, the most isolated and protectionist block in the world”

    Macri said that decades long protectionist attitude of Mercosur only helped “to deepen poverty in our countries”

    Mercosur is the most isolated and protectionist block in the world, said Argentine president Mauricio Macri on Thursday during a meeting with Argentine media, in Brasilia, in the framework of the current presidential summit during which the six-month rotating chair of the group will passed from Brazil to Paraguay.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina: Approval of reform bills triggers markets

    The president Mauricio Macri administration expects the economy to grow around 3% this year following a 2.2% percent contraction in 2016.

    Merval, the main index of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, rose 1.51% Thursday, closing at 28,494.01 points - close to exceeding the maximum of the year, by 28,500 points. The Argentine stocks were driven by the approval of the pension and tax reforms passed this week in the House of Representatives.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:05 UTC

    President Maduro “cries” for Argentina and pledges to work for the people

    Speaking during the program “La Hora de la Salsa”, Maduro described how sad and miserable what he was seeing in Buenos Aires television made him feel

    The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned the repression carried out by the Argentine security forces of president Mauricio Macri during the debate in Congress of the pensions' reform system, and underlined that the television reports from Buenos Aires called on him to work ever harder for the benefit of the people.

  • Wednesday, December 20th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

    Despite the violence and protests, Argentina's pension reform bill is passed

    “We’ve created a formula that defends (retirees) from inflation and guarantees that they will be better,” Macri said.“Our priority is to take care of the retirees.”

    Argentina’s president defended a pension reform bill approved by Congress in the early hours of Tuesday that has prompted violent protests and a general strike, saying it seeks only to benefit retirees. The measure passed in the lower house by a 127-117 vote after more than 12 hours of debate, much of which came as demonstrators clashed with police outside the chamber.

  • Friday, December 15th 2017 - 07:51 UTC

    Violent protests in Buenos Aires as Congress attempted to discuss a pensions reform plan

    Riot police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrators, who threw stones and burned barricades made of rubbish outside Congress (Pic Clarin)

    A trade union-organized march in Buenos Aires descended into violence Thursday, with thousands of protesters clashing with police as they demanded lawmakers reject a controversial pension reform plan. Riot police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrators, who threw stones and burned barricades made of rubbish outside the doors of Argentina's congress.

  • Wednesday, December 13th 2017 - 07:33 UTC

    May expresses solidarity to Macri over the missing ARA San Juan submarine

    Macri on his side thanked PM May for the British effort as part of the international operation which collaborated in the search of the missing vessel.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May contacted on Tuesday Argentine president Mauricio Macri to express solidarity over the missing submarine ARA San Juan which disappeared on 15 November in the South Atlantic after exchanging messages with its base in Mar del Plata. The news was supplied by the official Argentine news agency, Telam.

  • Friday, December 8th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

    Judge indicts Cristina Fernandez for treason and puts Timerman under house arrest

    Fernandez called a news conference in Congress to deny wrongdoing and accuse Bonadio and President Mauricio Macri of degrading the judiciary.

    A federal judge in Argentina indicted former President Cristina Fernandez for treason and asked for her arrest for allegedly covering up Iran’s possible role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people and injured hundreds, a court ruling said.

  • Friday, December 1st 2017 - 06:42 UTC

    Argentina as G20 chair will combat protectionism, pledges president Macri

    Macri and his market-friendly policies said the G20 chair was a chance to mark the country’s rise as a global “important place”, and boost Latin America’s profile.

    President Mauricio Macri hosted the official launching of the Argentine chair of G20, the world’s major forum for global economic, political, and financial cooperation. In his inaugural speech Macri said Argentina is committed ”to build consensus for fair and sustainable development” and will use its role as the first South American country to chair the G20 group of major economies to combat protectionism.

  • Saturday, November 25th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

    Macri promises the truth about what happened with the missing submarine

    “My commitment is with the truth,’ he said, adding the tragedy ‘will require a serious, in-depth investigation that will yield certainty about what has happened”.

    President Mauricio Macri on Friday ordered an inquiry to ‘know the truth’ about what happened to Argentina's missing submarine, ARA San Juan, which disappeared with the loss of its 44 crew. The 34-year-old submarine had gone through a refit and was ‘in perfect condition,’ Macri told reporters at the Argentine navy headquarters.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:19 UTC

    Putin talks to Macri and sends a oceanographic vessel to help with the search

    The dispatch of a high-tech oceanographic ship was the result of the long phone call between presidents Putin and Macri

    Russia has agreed to dispatch an oceanographic ship to Argentina in order to help with the search for the missing Argentine submarine, ARA San Juan, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday following a telephone conversation between Russian and Argentine presidents Vladimir Putin and Mauricio Macri.