Tag: #Argentine
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Fire Sweeps Through Argentine MotoGP Racetrack
Fire has swept through the Argentine MotoGP racetrack.
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How rich is Messi than other Soccer players?
16th September: Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine professional footballer, who has topped the wealth charts this year. According to reports, Messi has earned $126 million this year. Out of his $126 million, $92 million was from his salary while $32 million was from endorsements. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFE7Nh9iSmV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Lionel Messi decides not to leave FC Barcelona Unarguably,…
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Kirchner or Fernandez? Who’s really going to run Argentina?
Buenos Aires, Nov 2 (AFP/APP): Alberto Fernandez has just been elected president of Argentina but before even taking charge he faces suggestions that he is a puppet for ex-president Cristina Kirchner. Fernandez may have defeated incumbent Mauricio Macri at the polls on Sunday, but he did so with Kirchner as his running mate — and…
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Iran hopes new UN nuclear chief will act ‘neutrally’
Tehran, Oct 31 (AFP/APP): Iran said Thursday it hopes the UN nuclear watchdog will act “neutrally” under its new head and vowed to maintain cooperation with its inspectors monitoring a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Argentina’s Rafael Grossi took the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday following the death of his predecessor, Yukiya…
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Argentina tightens exchange controls to stem capital flight
Buenos Aires, Oct 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina introduced strict exchange controls Monday to preserve depleting reserves as president-elect Alberto Fernandez and incumbent Mauricio Macri held talks, seeking to reassure investors over the country’s impending swing from market-friendly policies to protectionism. The country’s central bank said the currency exchange controls would help stem a surge in capital…
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Argentine frontrunner calls for unity after presidential poll
Buenos Aires, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s leftist presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez vowed Sunday to end sharp divisions between his Peronist movement and supporters of the business-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri, as the country seeks to emerge from a crippling economic crisis. Exit polls put the 60-year-old lawyer, whose running mate is ex-president Cristina Kirchner, in the…
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Moderate Peronist Fernandez closes in on Argentine presidency
Buenos Aires, Oct 26 (AFP/APP): Alberto Fernandez has been a discreet backroom operator throughout a long career in Argentine politics, but all that could change after Sunday’s elections. Little known outside Buenos Aires politics, the 60-year-old law professor and Bob Dylan fan burst onto the international stage by trouncing President Mauricio Macri in August primaries…