Cristina Kirchner News
Argentina`s former president Cristina Kirchner slammed a judge for charging her on Tuesday in a corruption case over public tenders awarded to a businessman friend, and ordering a freeze of her assets.
Argentina`s new President Mauricio Macri met with governors on Saturday in another major change of tone from his predecessor Cristina Kirchner`s confrontational style.
The country's multiple defaults have left it enmeshed in a net of law suits cast by creditors, many of whom are US finance houses.
Scioli served as Nestor Kirchner's vice president from 2003 to 2007.
Argentina blamed the United States for the legal battle that forced it into its second default in 13 years, accusing the judge and mediator in the case of "incompetence”.
Argentine representatives hold talks with a court-appointed arbiter in New York on Monday hoping to resolve an impasse over debt payments to hedge funds as the country faces possible default.
A US judge appointed a Manhattan attorney to supervise talks between Argentina and hedge fund bondholders as Buenos Aires seeks to avoid defaulting on its debt in a week's time.
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