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inca kola news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Martin Redrado. (Listen to him, Kirchner. He's actually making sense. ) The fall-out from the decision by the Leader of all Argentina (and his wife) to pay off the country's $6.7Bn Paris Club debt via this Presidential Decree has been totally predictable: The Paris Club Group of Creditors , via its head honcho Xavier Musca, said " We consider that Argentina is making a good decision, if everything...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The president pays her dues EVER since Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner replaced her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as Argentina’s president last December, the country’s economy has been on the skids. Growth has slowed from over 8% a year to an estimated 5-6%; inflation has approached 25%; some $11 billion of capital has departed; and interest rates on government bonds have increased by a third. Although...
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Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The Argentinean government headed by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is pondering the choices it has to meet its financial needs. The first option is to seek funding in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the second one is to sell more bonds to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ( full information )/ El gobierno de Cristina Kirchner busca vías para atender sus necesidades financieras. La primera...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
With economic growth slowing down, an increase in public expenses and worrying inflation - about which President Cristina Kirchner's government may have lied - investors fear a new crisis looming in Argentina.
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Argentina's Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is calling for the nation to decriminalize personal drug use and focus instead on stopping dealers and traffickers. According to CNN, the President argues that users who are addicted are more victims than criminals and that the people who are selling it and trafficking it are really the people [...]
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Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Earlier reports of more substantive drug law reform in Argentina ( see blog coverage / discussion here ) are gathering pace, with the president and justice minister now calling for decriminalisation of drug users. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Kirchner is quoted in the CNN report saying: "I don't like it when people easily condemn someone who has an addiction as if he were a criminal,...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has reiterated her support for decriminalizing possession of drugs for personal use. Her rationale features the traditional distinction between drug users, who are equated with addicts and described as victims, and drug suppliers, who are treated as predators deserving harsh punishment: "I don't like it when people easily condemn someone who has an...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Cristina Kirchner on Saturday used the first news conference by an Argentine president in five years to defend her government after facing the biggest
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inca kola news (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
"Sit up straight at the back...no talking." For one hour and forty minutes yesterday we were treated to the spectacle of Klishtina Fernandesh de Kirchner and her ironic smile, her sarcastic bitchiness towards those she thinks lesser mortals (i.e. journalists) and her bare-faced false statements (check here for the six factual errors) that conjured up the image of Cruella de Ville as second grade
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
After months of political turmoil, Argentina's leader, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, gave the first news conference of her eight-month presidency on Saturday.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Saturday denied opposition claims that her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, runs her presidency….
