Presidents of Argentina

Nearly 130,000 people lost their jobs in recession-hit Argentina from January to September this year, the government said on Nov. 17.

Companies reported a total of 127,595 job cuts - a 1.5 percent fall in employment overall - the Federal Public Revenues Administration said.

Just under eight million of the country's 41 million people were formally employed.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The United Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has asked the government of Argentine President Mauricio Macri to "immediately" release Milagro Sala, a social activist and an MP in the Parlasur, following her "arbitrary and baseless" arrest in January of this year.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - After attempting to break completely with his predecessor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's policies on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and take a softer stance, Argentine President Mauricio Macri has earned criticism not only from political opposition but even from within his own government.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied outside Congress late Dec. 17 against President Mauricio Macri, a mere week after the conservative politician took office as Argentina's new president.

Argentina, in a stinging repudiation of outgoing leftist President Cristina Kirchner, elected a pro-market government president to take the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy.
 

Argentines decide on Nov. 22 whether to end years of leftist government in a run-off vote that could see the pro-business opposition seize command of Latin America's third-biggest economy.

Polls show that the mayor of Buenos Aires, former football executive Mauricio Macri, could force a sharp realignment by beating his left-wing rival Daniel Scioli, an ex-powerboating champion.

Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri stunned Argentina's ruling party with an unexpectedly strong showing in the presidential election on Oct. 25, forcing a run-off vote next month, preliminary results showed.

An Argentine judge on Feb. 27 dismissed the case against President Cristina Kirchner for allegedly shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.
      

President Cristina Kirchner on Monday said that she will disband Argentina's intelligence service after a prosecutor was found dead hours before he was to make explosive allegations against her in Congress.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin struck agreements on nuclear energy cooperation with Argentinian counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Under the deals, the Russian company Rosatom is to take part in the construction of Atucha NPP's Unit 3.

Relations between the two countries are "strategic" ones, Argentinian daily Clarin quoted Putin as saying.