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...Cristina Fernández de Kirchner....
...In a much-criticised moment, in 2020 he was filmed shaking the hand of the mother of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a former drug boss now imprisoned in the US....
...An ally of President Alberto Fernández, Guzmán is the latest and most senior of four cabinet members to step down in recent months....
...Silvina Batakis, 53, was set to take over on Monday after Guzmán, a close ally of President Alberto Fernández, became the most senior of four Argentine cabinet members to step down in recent months amid...
...If it does not end up working, the Fernández government will be left with no other options, he added....
...Guzmán....
...But Argentina’s vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has split with the president over how to fix the economy....
...Guzmán left just three months after negotiating a $44bn debt restructuring deal with the IMF....
...President Alberto Fernández appointed a relatively unknown former provincial official, Silvina Batakis, to spearhead the economy after the unexpected departure of predecessor Martín Guzmán, who had been...
...An open split between President Alberto Fernández and the more radical bloc of the leftwing Peronist coalition led by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s powerful vice-president, is an additional...
...Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the powerful vice-president who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on September 1, leads an influential faction strongly resisting spending cuts ahead of elections...
...Fernández’s Peronist government had been critical of the original IMF bailout, saying it financed capital flight and should never have been granted....
...Even if Guzmán survives as economy minister, he faces huge challenges....
...Martín Guzmán, Argentina’s finance minister and chief IMF negotiator, said the deal would be sent to the lower house of Congress as early as next week....
...The Fernández administration must also contend with hardliners within its own ranks who are resisting its proposed cuts in spending and government subsidies....
...Martin Guzmán, finance minister and chief IMF negotiator, is expected to outline details of the understanding today....
...The open split within the ruling coalition raises serious questions about whether the more pragmatic Alberto Fernández, president, and Martín Guzmán, his economy minister, can succeed in turning the outline...
...Instead the state would play “a moderately expansionary role”, said finance minister and chief IMF negotiator, Martín Guzmán....
...The value of the dollar on the parallel market has soared to almost double the official level in recent weeks as Argentines bet that the government will be forced to devalue the peso, something Martín Guzmán...
...Juan Germano of the polling consultancy Isonomía said his latest survey showed Fernández’s approval rating had sunk to 33 per cent, with his more radical vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner even...
...Guzmán had been seen as one of the more moderate ministers but with support for President Alberto Fernández’s government flagging ahead of mid-term elections on November 14, he has hardened his rhetoric....
...Analysts say Guzmán is under heavy pressure from hardliners to take a tougher line with the fund....
...Argentina’s current economy minister Martín Guzmán, who is negotiating a new agreement with the IMF, described the report as “not sufficient, but a step forward”....
...Mariel Fornoni, a pollster, said the fiasco was not only damaging for Guzmán, but the president himself. “It has left [Fernández] in a position of absolute weakness....
...While President Fernández is a pragmatist and Guzmán a technocratic former academic, Cristina Fernández is known for her incendiary rhetoric against the IMF....
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