President of Argentina

Argentina sent its first shipment of lemons to the United States in 17 years, a few months after President Donald Trump authorized citrus imports from that South American nation. "Let's send off the first truck, which will carry our produce to our brothers in the United States," Argentine President Mauricio Macri ...

Speaking at a joint press conference, the conservative Argentine president said the crisis would be "top of the agenda" at the Summit of the Americas, which begins Friday in Lima. He said countries agreeing that the elections have no validity will discuss at the summit what measures could be taken against ...

Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri was inaugurated as president of Argentina on 10 December 2015 after winning 51.34% of the vote to defeat the Peronist candidate Daniel Scioli in the first run-off in Argentine history. A civil engineer and president of the Boca Juniors football club, Macri became the first ...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades. Ministers will be forbidden from employing close family, and those currently in posts will have to leave. One in four positions appointed by ministers ...

Judge seeks removal of immunity, arrest of former president of Argentina ... Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Thursday denounced as political "persecution" a judge's demand that she be arrested on suspicion of treason for allegedly covering up Iran's purported role in the 1994 ...

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner served two terms as the president of Argentina. Now she is out of power, and she's fighting to stay out of prison. Here's NPR's Philip Reeves. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Chanting in Spanish). PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: Cristina ...