Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner

When the State Takes Stock

Elana Shever | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Repsol YPF, Oil, Argentina, Argentina Oil, Repsol, Repsol Argentina, South America, Latin America, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Foreign Affairs, Ypf, World News
Elana Shever

The Argentine government has seized control of Spanish oil giant Repsol's stake in what was Argentina's national oil company. The takeover is being celebrated in Argentina and criticized elsewhere as a repudiation of the neoliberal reforms that opened up Argentina's crisis-plagued economy.

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Argentina's Critics Get It Wrong Again

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Repsol, Ypf, Argentina Inflation, Latin America Inflation, Argentina Gdp, Argentina Economy, World News
Mark Weisbrot

It is interesting that Argentina has had such remarkable economic success over the past nine years while receiving very little foreign direct investment and being mostly shunned by international financial markets. Maybe that's another reason why Argentina gets so much flak.

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Argentina Boots Repsol, Nationalizes Petroleum Company

AP | LUIS ANDRES HENAO | Posted 04.22.2012

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Less than a decade ago, Argentina was an exporter of oil and natural gas. Now the government has to spend billions of ...

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Argentina's Expropriation and the Lessons of History

Daniel Wagner | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Repsol YPF, Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Argentine Crisis, Ypf, World News
Daniel Wagner

Given how entrenched oil politics have become in Argentine political culture -- and given how deftly both the current president and her husband played the nationalism card -- only a naïve investor would agree to invest in YPF believing that expropriation was impossible.

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Argentina's President Never Had Thyroid Cancer

Reuters | Posted 03.08.2012

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BUENOS AIRES, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez never had cancer despite having been diagnosed with the disease last month an...

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Argentina's President Undergoes Cancer Operation

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Cristina Fernandez Thyroid Cancer, Argentina President Cancer, Video, Cristina Kirchner, Cristina Fernandez, Cristina Fernandez Cancer, Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Cancer, World News

A little over a week after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that she has thyroid cancer, the Argentine President is undergoing surgery in a ho...

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Our Leadership Crisis

Richard Attias | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Silvio Berlusconi, European Debt Crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou, Silvio Berlusconi Resigns, Greek Debt, Italy Debt, Papandreou Berlusconi Resign, Business News
Richard Attias

When people are fighting adversity every day they want politicians whom they trust, and if those don't appear there is trouble.

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Obama Congratulates Argentine President

AP | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Argentina Economy, Obama Fernandez, Argentina, G 20 2011, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Obama, Cristina Fernandez, G-20, Fernandez, World News

CANNES, France -- President Barack Obama says a meeting with Argentina's president gave them a nice opportunity to build on the long history between t...

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'Bittersweet' Election For Argentine President After Landslide Victory

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 12.23.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's vice president-elect is a hoodie-wearing, Harley-riding rock 'n roll guitarist who plays up the pace of th...

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Argentine President Wins Reelection In Landslide Victory

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 12.23.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Cristina Fernandez was re-elected in a landslide Sunday, winning with one of the widest victory margins in A...

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Power, Grief Forged Argentine Leader's Character

AP | By MICHAEL WARREN and DEBORA REY | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Juan Domingo Peron, Cristina Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Nestor Kirchner, Latin America, Latino Voices News

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- There is a before and after to Cristina Fernandez, the combative Argentine leader likely to win a landslide re-election vic...

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Bout Of Low Blood Pressure Forces Argentine President To Cancel Event

AP | Posted 12.11.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's president has had to cancel an event because of a bout of low blood pressure. President Cristina Fernandez was...

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Argentine President Tweets: A Grandmother-To-Be

AP | Posted 09.12.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is tweeting that she will soon be a grandmother. "I'm going to have a grandchild! C...

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New Tango Argentino... Peronism and Globalism Hook Up

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Robert Morganthau, Hugo Chavez, Cristina Kirchner, David Graiver, Food Price Inflation, Goldman-Sachs, Juan Peron, Evita Peron, Amado Boudou, Dilma, G-20, Brazil, Theodore Kheel, Venezuela, Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, Moises Graiver, Isabel Peron, Peronismo, Ricardo Alfonsin, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Inflation, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Cristina Kirchner has moved her image to the political center to attract dollar investors. Instead of a dirty war, Argentina is fighting a war against food price inflation and syndicalists.

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Nobel-Winning Author's Argentina Trip Stirs Controversy

AP | ALMUDENA CALATRAVA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The choice of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to inaugurate Argentina's annual book fair is turning into a political...

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Women Leadership: Voters Launch A Power Surge Of Women

The Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iceland, Global Women's Issues, Argentina, Dilma Rouseff, Global-Womens-Movement, Angela Merkel, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Women Leaders, Brazil, Women in Leadership, Women in Government, World News

Over the past decade, almost every region of the world has seen exponentially more political seats -- legislative and executive -- go to women. Icelan...

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WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Hugo Chavez, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Rainbow-Warrior, Falkland Islands, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Pacific, Atlanci, Latin America, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

From the South Atlantic to the South Pacific, governments are paranoid about environmentalists and worry that activists might get in the way of inhumane or polluting industries.

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Wikileaks: Psychologically Profiling Latin American Leaders

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Hugo Chavez, Charles Ford, Wikileaks, William Brownfield, Manuel Zelaya, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

American diplomats view Latin American leaders as naïve vassals who need to be controlled in the event that they get out of line? Not much has changed in the last hundred years.

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Wikileaks: So Much for Left Wing "Solidarity" in South America

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Nestor Kirchner, Wikileaks, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

In Oliver Stone's recent documentary South of the Border, leftist regimes in Latin America are depicted rather idealistically. In country after coun...

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WikiLeaks and Latin America: Same Old Imperious U.S. Diplomats

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venezuela, Argentina, Hillary Clinton, Evo Morales, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Nestor Kirchner, Wikileaks, Arturo Valenzuela, South America, Hugo Chavez, Pink Tide, Brazil, World News
Nikolas Kozloff

While it's no secret that the Bush and Obama administrations have sought to isolate the so-called "Pink Tide" of leftist regimes in South America, the WikiLeaks documents give us some interesting insights.

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Heartbreaking: Argentina's President Addresses Nation In Tears

AP/The Huffington Post | DEBORA REY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's president emerged from mourning Monday vowing to honor the memory of her husband and predecessor, Nes...

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Nestor Kirchner DEAD: Ex-Argentine President Dies In Calafate

The Huffington Post/AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner – the country's most powerful politician along with his wife, cu...

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This Is What a Fierce Advocate Looks Like

Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, President Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, Argentina, Argentina Gay Marriage, World News
Bil Browning

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supports Argentina's same-sex marriage legislation and gave this interview to a Chinese news crew while visiting the country on a diplomatic mission.

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Don't Cry for Argentina?

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Videla, Carlos Gardel, Falklands War, Financial Crisis, Credit Default Swaps, Amado Boudou, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Nestor Kirchner, Argentina Bonds, Greek Debt Crisis, Ford Motor Co, Augusto Pinochet, Argentine Peso Forwards, Martin Redrado, World News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

After nearly a decade of depression, recession and resurrection, Argentina wants to retire its remaining unpaid debt at about 50 cents on the dollar and rejoin world financial markets.

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Investors Can't Trust Argentina

Nancy E. Soderberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bond Market, Argentina, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Business News
Nancy E. Soderberg

In the months ahead, President Kirchner faces a stark choice between a legacy of terminal decline or a new beginning for her country based upon economic responsibility and a willingness to rejoin the world economy.

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