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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The trial of former President of Argentina Reynaldo Bignone has begun in Argentina, according to the BBC . Also on trial are five of his former army officers, including intelligence chief General Santiago Omar Riveros, and a Buenos Aires police commissione. The seven are accused of the kidnapping,torture and murder of 56 people, committed in the Campo de Mayo dentention centre between 1976 and 1978,...
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We The Free (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
clipped from online.wsj.com The story of how Argentina got here is important to recall. The economy was flat on its back after the 2001-2002 collapse of "convertibility," the monetary arrangement that pegged the peso to the dollar. A demoralized nation was looking for a savior It thought it found one in Néstor Kirchner. He became president in 2003 and set about to restore the state-run...
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We The Free (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
clipped from www.bloomberg.com Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s Senate approved a government-backed bill that puts new limits on television and radio ownership and will probably force Grupo Clarin SA, the country’s biggest media company, to sell off assets. The Senate handed President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a victory, passing 44-24 a law she said will “democratize”...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Later today, the spouses of the G-20 leaders will be heading next door to Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts high school to meet students and hear a performance by famed cellist Yo-yo Ma and country star Trisha Yearwood. But former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, whose wife is now running the show in Buenos Aires, won't be among them -- he didn't make it to Pittsburgh (guess that means...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The last time the G-20 Wives gathered was in London in April. The next time will be this Thursday in Pittsburgh, where the first ladies are sure to enjoy each other's fashion. From the April 3rd entry: On Wednesday night Prime Minister Gordon Brown hosted a working dinner for G-20 leaders at 10 Downing Street. The delegates dined on baked Scottish salmon, Welsh lamb, and something called lovage (see...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
BUENOS AIRES | An epic battle between Argentina's two reigning powers -- the presidency and media giant Grupo Clarin -- started with a political cartoon, the way one editor tells it. When President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was drawn with an X taped over her mouth, she called it a "mafia-like" threat and accused "media generals" of using their newspapers and TV stations to...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Another government bail-out BETWEEN them, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez, and her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, have nationalised their country’s post office, its airline and the private pension system. Now, it seems, it is the turn of football to come under the state’s aegis. This week the Argentine Football Association was poised to accept an offer of $154m...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone.
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Argentina's first couple deliver prosperity – for themselvesRory Carroll, Latin America correspondentguardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 July 2009 20.45 BSTArticle historyArgentina's President Cristina Fernandez and her husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, December 10, 2007. Photograph: Argentine Presidency/Handout/ReutersThey were elected on the promise of delivering prosperity to...
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GatewaytoSouthAmerica.com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Jun 30th 2009 From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire Argentina’s president is dealt a blow in congressional elections President Cristina Fernández’s Peronist ruling party suffered a major defeat, losing its legislative majority, in the nationwide June 28th congressional elections. Argentineans have clearly voted against Ms Fernández and her husband, Nestór Kirchner,...
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The Contentious Centrist (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
A conspiracy of silence Eamonn MacDonagh reminds us that justice has yet to be done, fifteen years after a truck bomb destroyed the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed and hundreds injured: 2. Carlos Menem’s government saw to it that the initial investigation was carried out with the intention of protecting the authors of the...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
An investigation that former President Néstor Kirchner called a national disgrace has received new urgency and is raising hopes among Jewish groups.
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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
Argentina has now been ruled by Cristina Kirchner for nineteen months. A presidency that was launched on the promise of renewal, even if it was inherited in dynastic fashion from her husband Néstor Kirchner, has now lasted long enough for the voters to pass at least a provisional judgment. Their verdict - in the mid-term elections of 28 June 2009 - was not pretty. What does the result say about...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The Kirchners lose a referendum on their rule WHEN Argentines last voted in a national election two years ago they chose Cristina Fernandez as their new president with 45% of the vote and no need for a run-off. They gave the political block controlled by her and her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, healthy majorities in both houses of Congress. In a mid-term election on June 28th not only...
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