Tag: May Revolution Day

• Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 05:03 UTC

  Macri's government in “100% agreement” with the Church's dialogue message

  

  Argentina's cabinet chief Marcos Pena said president Mauricio Macri administration was “100% in agreement” with the Catholic church 25 May Day message “to leave aside statistics, think in the Argentine people and not fight among ourselves”.

• Sunday, May 1st 2016 - 08:55 UTC

  International Trade Union Confederation May Day Statement - 2016

  

  ”Today is a day to celebrate the achievements that through generations union men and women have won: peace, democracy, rights and decent work for millions of people.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 20:07 UTC

  Argentine Church calls for responsible leadership and end to political bickering

  

  The long influential shadow of Buenos Aires born Pope Francis was again present on Monday 25 May at two significant religious and official ceremonies, calling for responsible leadership and an end to political bickering.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 07:04 UTC

  CFK anticipates to huge rally that Kirchnerism will continue after December

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (CFK) demanded that the “current twelve year transformation process of Argentina” and Peronism continue in office and underlined that this objective does not depend on one person, but on the people's voting and defending all that was conquered in the last twelve years.

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez leads ceremony returning San Martin's saber to the National History Museum

  

  President Cristina Fernandez led a ceremony on Sunday where the National History Museum received, after 48 years, the saber that belonged to Argentina's Liberator General José de San Martín currently at the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment.

• Sunday, May 24th 2015 - 08:13 UTC

  Obama and Putin congratulate Cristina Fernandez and Argentina on 25 May, National Day

  

  US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have sent letters to President Cristina Fernández to salute the head of state and congratulate the Argentine people on the anniversary of the May Revolution.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:40 UTC

  Pope Francis prays for Argentina on the country's National Day

  

  Pope Francis has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernández to mark festivities for May week, during which Argentina commemorates the formation of the First Patriotic Government on 25 May 1810.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez launches May Revolution week with strong messages

  

  President Cristina Fernández led on Wednesday a rally in the Buenos Aires City central railway station of Retiro where she praised the renovation of Argentina's railway system in an event that was part of the official celebrations marking a new anniversary of the May Revolution, which in 1810 was the beginning of the country's road to independence.

• Monday, May 26th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  Argentina: CFK returns to the fold: attends Tedeum and read Francis de Assisi Peace prayer

  

  President Cristina Fernández, CFK, addressed on Sunday the crowd which had gathered in the historic Buenos Aires Plaza de Mayo to mark the anniversary of Argentina's May Revolution, calling on those present to remember all the people who helped create an independent nation.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:16 UTC

  CFK calls for ‘empowerment of the people’ and another ten years of Kirchnerism

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, “won not by a government but by the people” and called for “the empowerment of the people” to defend what has been achieved in the ‘won decade’.