Tag: Supreme Court of Argentina

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wins slander case in Rome: she did not go on a shopping spree

  

  President Cristina Fernández said she would like to see “some more justice in Argentina” after referring to a court case she won against an Italian newspaper which in 2008 claimed that while in Rome she went on an extravagant shopping spree: “Hunger and dolce vita in Rome”.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church criticism of judicial reform triggers ironic statements from Senator

  

  The Cristina Fernandez administration renewed relations with the Catholic Church, since the naming of Cardinal Bergoglio from Buenos Aires Pope Francis could be facing their first challenge because of the controversial judicial reform the Argentine president is pushing through congress.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2012 - 06:00 UTC

  Argentine government begins process to dismember Clarin media group

  

  Argentina's government Monday began the process of auctioning off media licenses and related assets held by the media conglomerate Grupo Clarin SA. The move, which government officials say should take about 100 business days to complete, comes after a lower court judge ruled Friday that a three-year-old media law requiring Clarin to be dismantled is constitutional.

• Thursday, December 13th 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez bashes the Judiciary on scandalous forced prostitution case ruling

  

  In the midst of her fight with the courts over the Media Law, Argentine President Cristina Fernández took time to bash the Judiciary after Tuesday’s a scandalous ruling on the disappearance of a young woman, (kidnapped and forced into prostitution) with all suspects acquitted of all charges.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 18:33 UTC

  Congress gives Cristina Fernandez additional tool to dismember Clarin group

  

  Argentina's Congress approved on Wednesday a new legal regulation which critics say President Cristina Fernandez could use to force a conclusion in her long-running battle with the country's biggest media group.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 06:00 UTC

  Argentine Dictatorship Former Economy Minister Arrested Accused of Kidnapping

  

  Former economy minister José Martínez de Hoz, the economic brains behind the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, has been arrested and transferred to a clinic after an amnesty law was lifted, a court official has said.