Tag: Maximo Kirchner

• Friday, February 14th 2014 - 07:12 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez undergoes 'satisfactory' brain and cardiac controls

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández attended on Thursday evening the Favaloro Foundation Hospital in Buenos Aires for a medical check-up, including a brain scan and an electrocardiogram which were described as “satisfactory”.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2013 - 00:21 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez returns to office next Monday 18, but tests will continue

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will resume official functions as of next Monday 18 November, after completing a month of convalescence, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announced on Monday. However further tests are programmed to check when the president can again travel by air.

• Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:51 UTC

  “Mother is recovering and improving” said Maximo, son of Cristina Fernandez

  

  Maximo Kirchner, the eldest son of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said his mother's medical condition was 'improving' from the cranium surgery to drain a blood clot to which she saw submitted at the beginning of the month, but did not advance any date as to when the head of state will return to her job.

• Friday, October 25th 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Argentine first time 'young voters' remain distant from Sunday's mid-term election

  

  Argentines aged 16 and 17 will be able to vote for the first time in Sunday's midterm elections but the incidence of their ballot in the final result is considered marginal since many of them did not register. In Argentina voting is mandatory for the 18 to 70 age group, and 600.000 teen agers of 16 and 17 have registered to vote on 27 October when half the Lower House and a third of the Senate seats are renewed.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:24 UTC

  Government is run by a solid team following Cristina Fernandez instructions’

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina guaranteed there will be no political or institutional crisis due to President Cristina Fernández health condition and underlined that ‘the president’s team is solid and working with no difficulty”, following her instructions.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:24 UTC

  Zanini, admirer of Mao’s China, the strongman in absence of Cristina Fernandez

  

  His nickname is ‘El chino’ (the Chinese) because of his strong Maoist tendencies when a law student. Long a solicitor, Carlos Zanini is Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (and of her deceased husband Nestor Kirchner) most trusted aide and top of the Kirchnerite ‘nomenclature’.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Boudou is Argentine caretaker president but power remains in Cristina’s inner circle

  

  “There are no uncertainties or any weird things here, we just have to keep up with the performance”, said Argentine Vice-president and caretaker president Amado Boudou speaking on Monday from Government House a few hours after signing to replace Cristina Fernandez for thirty days while the head of state undergoes cranium surgery and a recovery period.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2013 - 01:22 UTC

  Mujica and Cristina Fernandez seal peace at a de-sulphuring plant inauguration

  

  Uruguay and Argentina presidents Jose Mujica and Cristina Fernandez seem to have ironed out differences, at least in public and in the pictures, during the inauguration of a gasoline and diesel de-sulphuring plant in Montevideo, which was financed with Venezuelan funds and Argentine technology.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2013 - 02:19 UTC

  LAN appeals hangar eviction in Buenos Aires airport; unions pledge strike in support of Chilean carrier

  

  Lan Chile went to court in Argentina on Monday to appeal its eviction from a hangar at the metropolitan Buenos Aires Aeroparque airport, which is a crucial element of its national and regional operations. Several unions have anticipated that if the eviction is not stopped they will go on strike and interrupt domestic flights.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 04:55 UTC

  Lan back in the air in Argentina after yielding to ground services boycott

  

  Chilean company Lan Airlines said on Saturday it was “gradually resuming” domestic and international flights in Argentina that it had suspended on Friday due to a conflict with state-run Intercargo company. Intercargo said it had re-established the service to Lan after the airline agreed to cancel a debt.