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☆ Argentina’s Milei accused of double standards in a scandal over a 48% pay raise
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Argentina's President Javier Milei gestures while delivering his first policy speech to parliament during the inauguration of the 142nd ordinary session of Congress in Buenos Aires on March 1, 2024. Argentina's Javier Milei has been accused of hypocrisy for orchestrating a substantial increase in presidential pay while pushing through an austerity package, in a scandal that has rocked the right-wing populist's government. It reflected a 48% increase in presidential pay from January. The libertarian economist, who has often been compared to former U.S. President Donald Trump, sought to defend the pay increase by claiming it was automatically triggered by a decree signed by former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner 14 years ago. Opposition lawmakers, however, said the president's own signature was used on a February decree that enabled the pay increase.

Persons: Javier Milei, Argentina's Javier Milei, Milei, Omar Yasin, Donald Trump, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Cristina Kirchner Organizations: 142nd, Argentine Locations: Buenos Aires, Milei

[1/2] Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meets with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (not pictured) before a summit with presidents of South America to discuss the re-launching of the regional cooperation bloc UNASUR, in Brasilia, Brazil, May 29, 2023. "We won't decide anything at tomorrow's meeting, it is just about discussing possibilities," Lula told a news conference on Monday with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on his first visit to Brazil in eight years. Lula said the leaders did not have to recreate a new Unasur but could come up with a different sort of organization. Maduro is hoping the South American countries will unite in calling on the United States to lift its sanctions against Venezuela, which he and Lula assailed at their news conference. "The aim of this initiative is to unite all the countries of the region once again," she told reporters on Friday.

☆ Venezuela's Maduro meets Lula on first visit to Brazil since 2015
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Brazil's former hard-right President Jair Bolsonaro had banned Maduro from entering Brazil when he took office in 2019, a measure that Lula lifted when he returned to power this year. Lula and Maduro met at the presidential palace and were scheduled to sign agreements in the early afternoon. Among the issues on their agenda was a large debt Venezuela has run up with Brazil's National Development Bank, Brazilian officials said. Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad was due to meet with Maduro and Lula, they added, and the president of state-run oil company Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates. The organization floundered when several South American countries elected right-wing governments, creating diplomatic fissures on the continent.

☆ Argentina government loses Senate power after senators exit coalition
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Argentina's ruling Peronist coalition was dealt a blow on Wednesday when four of its senators announced their departure, weakening the government's sway in the Senate just eight months before high-stakes general elections. Senators Edgardo Kueider, Guillermo Snopek, Carlos Espinola and Maria Eugenia Catalfamo said they would leave the center-left alliance that supports President Alberto Fernandez and his powerful vice president, Cristina Kirchner. The departures from Fernandez's coalition leave it with 31 seats in the 72-seat Senate. The Peronists were badly beaten in 2021 congressional elections, which showed the conservative opposition well ahead in popular support. (This story has been corrected to fix the number of months until general elections to eight from six in paragraph 1)Reporting by Nicolás Misculin; Editing by Bradley PerrettOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Argentine Court Sentences Vice President Cristina Kirchner to Six Years in Prison
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kejal Vyas | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A federal court on Tuesday convicted Vice President Cristina Kirchner of fraud charges and sentenced her to six years in prison for embezzling money through public-construction contracts, a blow for a leftist government grappling with soaring inflation and one of the worst economic crises in two decades. A three-judge panel said Mrs. Kirchner, along with several other former aides, would be permanently banned from holding public office, capping a long-running graft case against Argentina’s most prominent and polarizing politician. Mrs. Kirchner served as president for two terms from 2007 to 2015 before becoming the first vice president in the country to be tried and convicted on graft charges while in office.

☆ Argentina court hands VP Cristina Kirchner 6-year jail term in graft case
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Nicolás Misculin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The powerful vice president will not face immediate prison time and is also expected to appeal the sentence, with the case likely to spend years winding through higher courts. Fernandez de Kirchner served as president for two terms between 2007 and 2015 and commands rock-star crowds of supporters. She faced charges of alleged corruption in the awarding of public works during her presidency. Defenders of the vice president maintain she was a victim of judicial persecution. Lawyers said that Fernandez de Kirchner would not go to jail any time soon because she has immunity while serving as vice president.

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