News of leaders

President Alberto Fernández assails 'coup attempt' in Brazil

09-01-2023 00:00 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner also condemns attack, attributing it to "hate speech in the media and social networks."

GLOBAL REACTION

World leaders condemn anti-government mob attacks in Brasília

08-01-2023 23:44 President Alberto Fernández slams "coup attempt" by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazilian capital, as leaders from across the globe condemn "outrageous" attack on democracy.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

President hospitalised after suffering gastritis at G20 summit in Bali

15-11-2022 10:03 Argentina's president suffers illness at G20 Leaders Summit and is briefly hospitalised. After receiving treatment, he goes ahead with bilateral meeting with Chinese premier Xi Jingping.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Alberto Fernández eyes progress in Bali at G20 summit

14-11-2022 13:37 Russia-Ukraine talks and IMF surcharges on the agenda for the president, who will attend event hosted by US leader Joe Biden and hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jingping.

BRAZIL ELECTION 2022

Lula's leftist triumph: Is this Latin America's second 'pink tide'?

31-10-2022 08:28 From Mexico in the north to Chile in the south, Latin America's constantly see-sawing political map once again resembles that of the early 2000s. But analysts say this time is different: the trend is driven by pragmatism rather than ideology.

INSIDE TRACK

Soap opera over? The private meeting between Alberto, Cristina and Massa

07-07-2022 23:29 On Wednesday, July 6, at 8pm, president, vice-president and lower house speaker sat down for their first face-to-face meeting of the year so far.

by Rosario Ayerdi

G7 SUMMIT

President condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at G7 summit

27-06-2022 17:06 Alberto Fernández criticises “economic system that allows wealth to accumulate in the hands of the few” at meeting of world leaders in Bavaria.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Alberto packs his bags for Germany and the G7

21-06-2022 16:08 Argentina’s president jets off Saturday for the G7 in Bavaria; Beforehand he will virtually attend 14th BRICS summit; Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero heads to New York to restate Malvinas sovereignty claim before the UN.

DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY

President puts domestic tensions on pause with European tour

09-05-2022 15:39 Argentina’s president flies to the Spanish city of Madrid on Monday ahead of meeting with Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez. Tour also includes a two-day stopover in Germany and possible meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

Opposition leader

Macri returns to political foreground as 2023 speculation picks up

15-04-2022 01:36 Former presidents meets with members of the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition as speculation over another run at the Casa Rosada picks up.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Xi’s Olympic guest list is mostly leaders of non-democracies

03-02-2022 12:23 Chinese President Xi Jinping will host 21 world leaders at the Winter Olympics, and a majority of them preside over non-democratic regimes.

EUROPEAN POLITICS

Macron hails Scholz as Europe's new power couple meets

10-12-2021 12:36 French President Emmanuel Macron hailed a "convergence of views" with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday as the two men met for their first talks as leaders.

EDITORIAL

Foreign policy in debt

05-11-2021 18:13 The current administration is a fragmented coalition projecting all its internal splits into external policy, with the result that its diplomatic discourse not only continues to be isolationist, self-indulgent and anachronistic but also ambiguous, inconsistent and unpredictable.

G20 Leaders Summit

G20 disappoints on key climate target as eyes turn to Glasgow

31-10-2021 22:57 G20 major economies commit key goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but negotiators had to water down initial proposals to get everyone to sign off on final communiqué.

G20 Leaders Summit

What's in the global tax reform agreed by the G20?

31-10-2021 08:35 After years of negotiations, G20 leaders on Saturday endorsed an historic deal aimed at ending tax havens, although some developing countries complain it still falls short.

IMF DEBT TALKS

Fernández vows to be 'firm' in talks with IMF

30-10-2021 17:35 President Alberto Fernández vows to negotiate "firmly" with the International Monetary Fund; Meets US President Joe Biden briefly on sidelines of G20 summit.

Bloomberg

In a win for Argentina, G20 statement to mention IMF surcharges

30-10-2021 17:15 In a diplomatic nod to Argentina, leaders at the G20 Summit in Rome are planning to task their finance chiefs to look at the surcharge policy at the International Monetary Fund.

G20 Leaders Summit

Brazil’s Bolsonaro gets G20 cold shoulder as Amazon fires rage

30-10-2021 08:23 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been under constant attack from the Amazon rainforest’s soaring deforestation, is set to be given the cold shoulder at the G20 summit in Rome.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Fernández flies to Rome for G20 with a dozen bilaterals on his agenda

29-10-2021 01:28 President has meetings lined up with Kristalina Georgieva, Angela Merkel, Pedro Sánchez, Úrsula von der Leyen, Queen Máxima and the director-general of the World Health Organisation, among others.

by Rosario Ayerdi

57th IDEA COLLOQUIUM

Fernández warns business leaders over ‘incomprehensible’ price rises

15-10-2021 18:24 President Alberto Fernández, Economy Minister Martín Guzmán and Pope Francis among the names addressing 57th IDEA colloquium.

IMF DEBT TALKS

No IMF deal until early 2021, Fernández tells CEOs

13-10-2021 13:02 President Alberto Fernández reportedly tells a group of eight top businessmen that a deal with the IMF won’t happen until 2022 at the earliest.

PANDORA PAPERS LEAK

World leaders scramble to limit 'Pandora Papers' damage

04-10-2021 13:20 More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium.

PANDORA PAPERS LEAK

Panama law firm heavily implicated in 'Pandora Papers' revelations

04-10-2021 13:01 Prestigious Panamanian law firm was named in the so-called 'Pandora Papers' as implicated in the creation of offshore shell companies meant to hide money in tax havens for more than 160 politicians and public figures.

PANDORA PAPERS

Here are the biggest revelations from the Pandora Papers leak

04-10-2021 10:19 Huge leak of financial records reveals offshore financial assets of dozens of current and former world leaders and hundreds of politicians from Asia and the Middle East to Latin America.

world

Taliban announce hardline government as protests grow

07-09-2021 14:16 The Taliban announced the top members of their government on Tuesday, a move that cements the group's power over Afghanistan, just days after a chaotic US troop pullout.

Chile election 2021

Chilean presidential hopeful Sichel wants to save Chile's model, not scrap it

01-07-2021 10:56 Sebastián Sichel, a former government minister under President Sebastián Piñera, says Chile’s pro-business economic model can be improved from within and doesn’t need radical reform.

G20 SUMMIT

United States urges Covid cooperation at G20, China sounds cautious tone

29-06-2021 21:15 The United States led calls at a G20 meeting Tuesday for greater global cooperation in light of the coronavirus crisis as China insisted that multilateralism should not just be a slogan.

MARCH 24

Rights groups call for 30,000 trees to be planted in memory of disappeared

24-03-2021 14:04 Human rights groups, marking the 45th anniversary of the coup that brought the 1976-1983 military dictatorship to power, are planting frees in honour of those who disappeared at the hands of the military junta.

MARCH 24

Nation pauses to remember victims of military dictatorship

23-03-2021 22:05 On Wednesday, nation pauses for a public holiday to mark the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice, in remembrance of victims of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Fernández urges Argentina to remember dictatorship ‘horror’

22-03-2021 16:36 Peronist leader calls on citizens to keep memory of crimes against humanity committed by 1976-1983 military dictatorship alive, with this year’s remembrance services set to be limited by coronavirus pandemic.