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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 14:29 UTC

Tag: Néstor Kirchner

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 12:36 UTC

    Milei needs to change the course of his government, warns CFK

    ”What's the use of 60% of the votes if people then go hungry and do not make ends meet? CFK wondered

    Former two-time Argentine head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) made a rentrée under the limelight Saturday at the opening of the President Néstor Kirchner Stadium in Quilmes, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in her first public appearance since completing her first term as vice president on Dec. 9 last year. She seized the opportunity to criticize the Libertarian administration of Javier Milei for the unnecessary hardships imposed on the people.

  • Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 21:43 UTC

    Argentina's presidential elections: CFK did not say it, but she showed it

    From left to right: CFK, Máximo Kirchner, Wado De Pedro and Sergio Massa. The message was there; not so much in the Vice President's speech.

    By Mordechai Taji

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) did not announce on Thursday anyone's candidacy - hers or not - for this year's elections. She did not do it with her voice. But by her side were her son, Deputy Máximo Kirchner, Interior Minister Wado De Pedro, and Economy Minister Sergio Massa. It was a visual message: two of those three will most likely be on one of the tickets to be presented in the primary, mandatory, simultaneous, and open elections (PASO). She also confirmed that she would not run and frustrated the hopes of some unconditional faithful, who expected her to change her mind.

  • Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 21:32 UTC

    Argentina's president breaks protocol during religious service

    Alberto Fernández was full of praise for Pope Francis and former President Néstor Kirchner

    Argentine President Alberto Fernandez broke protocol and delivered a few words during the Te Deum held on Thursday at the Buenos Aires Cathedral on the occasion of the national holiday of May 25. Traditionally, May 25 marks the expulsion of the Spanish viceroy in 1810, but in 2023 it signified the 20th anniversary of Néstor Kirchner's coming to power, which is what Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) would later celebrate under heavy rain in Plaza de Mayo.

  • Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

    “Macri is the enemy,” Máximo Kirchner tells Peronist convention

    Macri may be the enemy but leaders within the FdT do not seem to have many friends, after the Vice-President's son's speech

    Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner said during a Justicialist Party (PJ) Convention in Mar del Plata that “the adversary of the Argentine society, and not only of Peronism, is former president [Mauricio] Macri.”

  • Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 10:24 UTC

    Argentine President closes ranks with CFK over Prosecution's request

    Monday was “a very ungrateful day” for someone who grew up in the family of a judge and has taught Criminal Law for more than three decades, President Alberto Fernández wrote

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday expressed his sympathy to Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) after a prosecutor requested that she be jailed for 12 years for alleged acts of corruption committed during her tenure as head of state (2008-2015).

  • Monday, August 1st 2022 - 20:38 UTC

    CFK's links with Báez proven beyond doubt, Argentine prosecution claims

    Despite all efforts to distance herself from Báez, CFK's links with the corrupt businessman have been established, the prosecution insisted

    Argentine Prosecutor Diego Luciani Monday claimed there was “enormous relevant evidence” against current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and 12 other defendants in a corruption case regarding public works in the province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015.

  • Friday, April 22nd 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    Argentine President launches construction of new gas pipeline

    Argentina's industry needs energy from the country's soil, President Fernández said

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday launched the “Néstor Kirchner” gas pipeline project during a ceremony at the Loma Campana field in Vaca Muerta, province of Neuquén.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 20:46 UTC

    Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary “can't perform miracles”

    Under Néstor and Cristina Kirchner (2003-2015), export taxes were “higher when international prices were lower and nobody lost money,” Feletti argued

    Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti Thursday admitted that the inflation figures for the month of March “will be bad” following the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the local economy.

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentina: Máximo Kirchner resigns as Lower House majority leader

    President Fernández said CFK did not approve of her son's decision

    The recent deal between the Argentine Government of President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is taking its toll on the country's political leadership front after Lower House Majority Leader Máximo Kirchner announced Monday he would resign that position.

  • Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 10:22 UTC

    Argentina: the icon of Kirchners' business friends sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering

    Lazaro Baez, was granted almost a billion US dollar in public works contracts during a decade

    Argentine justice despite its disrepute has inflicted a mighty blow to the dominant force of the country's political system since 2003, the Nestor and Cristina Kirchner couple, currently headed by the widow Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

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