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  Fernando de la Rúa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fernando de la Rúa Bruno (born September 15, 1937) is an Argentine politician.
After the democratic restoration in 1983 De la Rúa was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and once again ran for the Senate in 1989.
De la Rúa's government was characterized by an ongoing economic crisis, continuous fights and rivalries between the coalition partners, cabinet crises, a general sensation of inaction and a failure to tackle corruption.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fernando_de_la_Rua   (564 words)

  
 americas.org - Alliance Taps DE La Rua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
de la Rua, a UCR moderate known for his stability and seriousness, promised a thorough investigation of the government.
In the province of Córdoba, defeating the incumbent and ending 15 years of UCR rule, José Manuel de la Sota of the PJ was elected governor December 20.
Celebrating his victory and sparking a wave of PJ reelection rhetoric, de la Sota said Menem was the only possible candidate that could unite the PJ and win in October, and urged him to reconsider his refusal to run for a third term.
www.americas.org /item_11011   (310 words)

  
 Antonio de la Rúa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1973) is the first son of the Argentine former President Fernando de la Rúa who occupied the presidency of Argentina from 1999 to 2001.
Antonio, who is an architect, proved to be a scandalous first son, a bachelor who has been papparatzi fodder since his father arrived at the Pink House, as the presidential home in Argentina is known.
De la Rúa and Shakira remain engaged, with future plans to marry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonio_de_la_R%C3%BAa   (193 words)

  
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 BBC News | AMERICAS | Profile: Fernando de la Rua
De la Rua was pelted with eggs in the street
The 64 year-old Mr de la Rua's main problem is that, two years into his administration, few Argentines have found anything more positive to define him by.
Mr de la Rua has dithered on all fronts, and has seen Argentina's stable economic situation slide into the chaos that has led to riots in the streets and the declaration of a state of emergency.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1721010.stm   (638 words)

  
 IMF austerity sparks upheavals Social unrest topples Argentina's president
De la Rua, who was elected in October 1999, resigned after the opposition Peronist party refused to join him in a government of national unity.
De la Rua’s announcement the night before of a 30-day state of siege—an illegal measure specifically barred by the Argentine constitution while the Congress is in session—provoked spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country, with working class and middle class people pouring into the streets banging pots and chanting defiant slogans against the government.
The De la Rua government initially reacted by denying that there was any real social unrest and promising $7 million in food relief, a pittance in a country where working people have seen their real income drop by 20 percent during the last three-and-a-half years.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/arg-d21_prn.shtml   (1259 words)

  
 Argentina - The Revolution has Begun
Argentina's president Fernando de la Rua was forced to resign after thousands of angry and impoverished protesters took to the streets of Buenos Aires in a revolt against the government's handling of a devastating economic crisis.
Fernando de la Rua's government was following the standard prescription the IMF gives to economies facing financial troubles: slash the deficit, deflate the economy and hope that investor confidence returns.
De la Rua will be replaced provisionally by Ramon Puerta, the Peronist president of the senate, until the national congress chooses a successor to rule the nation until elections are called.
www.marxist.com /Latinam/argentina_revolution_has_begun.html   (3976 words)

  
 CNN.com - Argentina teeters on possible economic collapse - December 21, 2001
De la Rua gave his resignation letter to the president of the Senate before leaving the presidential palace for his private residence by helicopter.
De la Rua was a former Buenos Aires mayor and was in the second year of a four-year term.
De la Rua late Wednesday declared a state of siege that suspends constitutional rights for 30 days and gives the government wide-ranging power to stop riots and other violence.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/12/20/argentina   (939 words)

  
 10/25/99 BW Online--De la Rua's Challenges: Balancing Argentina's Budget, Attracting Investors
Following Fernando de la Rua's convincing win in Argentina's presidential election Sunday, Oct. 24, Argentines are turning their attention to what measures the President-elect might take to lift the country out of recession.
With nearly all of the votes counted by the morning of Oct. 25, de la Rua, of the opposition Alliance group, had 48.5% of the votes, compared to 38% for Eduardo Duhalde of the ruling Peronist Party, and 10.2% for former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo.
Throughout his campaign, the moderate de la Rua, 62, tried to appease Argentines angry over the slumping economy, while carefully weighing his words with foreign investors, who are concerned about the country's growing budget deficit.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/oct1999/nf91025h.htm   (812 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - Debt crisis leaves De la Rúa up the creek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mr de la Rúa’s Alliance coalition had pressed to the last minute for senators not to vote for an opposition chairman, saying the move would be against national interests at a time when unity was crucial.
Speculation is high that Mr de la Rúa might have to bring forward the 2003 presidential elections, but most potential opposition candidates would prefer to see Mr de la Rúa stagger through to the end of his term as none of them is keen to take the helm at the height of the crisis.
Mr de la Rúa, who was elected in 1999 on hopes that he would be a calming influence after ten years of flamboyant and extravagant government by Carlos Menem, is constantly being attacked as indecisive and weak.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1592282001   (708 words)

  
 CBS News | Holocaust Apology By Argentina | April 16, 2001 15:46:30
De la Rua said the apology was appropriate because "Nazi war criminals took advantage of an opportunity to find shelter in Argentina" as some consular officials were making it difficult for Jews to get visas.
De la Rua met later with President Clinton and planned also to carry his message of forgiveness to a ceremony at the Holocaust Museum.
De la Rua's statement is one of several recent gestures by countries and companies to make amends for their role in the Holocaust and its aftermath.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/06/13/world/main205350.shtml   (662 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Fernando de la Rúa Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fernando de la Rúa is an Argentine politician.
Fernando de la Rúa (born September 15 1937) is an Argentine politician.
In retrospect however, de la Rúa cannot be held responsible for all the financial difficulties of that time, as he moved into the office, already inheriting a financial disaster and a huge national debt.
www.ipedia.com /fernando_de_la_rua.html   (239 words)

  
 Bulletin - Argentina's fiasco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
By the time de la Rua surrendered to the inevitable and wrote out – by hand – his letter of resignation, Argentina had become an inferno of lawlessness where roving mobs of looters ransacked private homes, stripped bare supermarket shelves and engaged in running battles with outnumbered police.
A grey, indecisive politician who was prone to bouts of depression during much of his 740-day presidency, de la Rua became the latest in a series of Latin American chiefs of state to be chased from office in the past two years.
De la Rua inherited an overvalued Argentine peso that was pegged to the dollar on a one-to-one parity basis and rendered the country’s exports too expensive to compete in international markets.
bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/printing/92ACEAB57DDDE39BCA256B3B00018D07   (1273 words)

  
 CBS News | De La Rua Wins Argentina Vote | December 13, 1999 05:19:23
With 85 percent of the ballot counted late Sunday, preliminary returns showed De la Rua, the opposition leader, with 48.7 percent of the votes.
De la Rua's victory was a vote for change after the decade-long rule of flamboyant President Carlos Menem.
De la Rua -- mayor of Buenos Aires and the candidate for the center-left opposition Alliance -- promised to pursue economic policies that do not neglect the poor and needy.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/10/24/world/main67850.shtml   (523 words)

  
 Corruption Scandal in Argentine Senate - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The case led to the resignation of the then vice-president Carlos Chacho Alvarez and sparked a political crisis that precipitated the end with De la Rua's rule one and a half year later.
De la Rua, Pontaquarto, Genoud, Alasino and the Labor minister, Alberto Flamarique took part of the meeting.
According to Pontaquarto, senators told De la Rua that they would support the bill "by other means", so the President replied that they should talk to the chief of the Argentine Intelligence Services, Fernando De Santibaсes.
english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=11539   (519 words)

  
 Argentina's de la Rua: He Used to Be Boring but Clean (int'l edition)
Yet de la Rua's image as a boring but squeaky-clean politician played well with the country's voters, who had tired of the flamboyant ways of his predecessor, Carlos Saul Menem.
For de la Rua's enemies, the temptation to capitalize on such disaffection may be too powerful to resist.
Members of Frepaso have hinged their continued support of de la Rua on the removal of intelligence chief Fernando de Santibanes, whose agency is believed to be the source of the alleged bribes.
www.businessweek.com /2000/00_44/b3705179.htm   (793 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | International | The ghosts of Peron
Menem's successor, Fernando de la Rua of the leftist Alianza Party is confronted with an economy that is struggling merely to stand on its feet.
De la Rua bet that his personal credibility was strong enough to weather the coming storm.
De la Rua, ever the consummate politician, is by no means unwilling to talk.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/487/in5.htm   (897 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - De la Rua sworn in as Argentina's 47th president
De la Rua was sworn in as Argentina's 47th president, promising four years of austere government and sober leadership following a decade of rule by Carlos Menem, the colourful leader who dominated his country like few before him.
De la Rua, who admits he's happiest in his garden or lounging away a Sunday afternoon with family and friends over a barbecue, highlights a dramatic shift in a country renowned for charismatic leaders like Menem and his proclaimed mentor, Juan Peron.
In his inaugural speech, de la Rua assured his administration would wage "a permanent fight against any kind of corruption." He pledged to govern "with honesty and austerity...
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntl01006.htm   (569 words)

  
 About Argentina and Paraguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fernando de la Rúa, president of Argentina, is expected to sign the draft deregulation decrees for the telecommunications sector by the end of next week.
Albright also met with the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who asked her to make soon-to-be declassified U.S. government documents related to the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina available to human rights groups, in order to help the grandmothers find abducted children and provide more information to the ongoing "truth trials" regarding past human rights violations.
After meeting President De la Rúa, Fox declared that he and his Argentine colleague were in "strong common agreement" on beginning free trade talks between Mexico and MERCOSUR.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /argentina/info_august_31_00-en.asp   (795 words)

  
 CNN.com - Argentina's De la Rua asks governors for support - November 12, 2000
De la Rua, who met with governors from both his center-left Alliance and the opposition Peronist Party, unveiled a slew of measures Friday that seek to progressively do away with the state pension scheme, and reform the retirement and taxation systems, including privatization of some tax collection.
But De la Rua will have to work to win backing for the reforms from provincial governors, many of whom have already criticized the government for channeling too little money to the poorer regions of this nation of 36 million people.
De la Rua won the support of Alliance congressmen Saturday but smaller opposition parties were less enthusiastic in their support, with some preferring to wait for details of the measures before voicing their approval and others promising to only back certain measures.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/12/economy.argentina.reut   (715 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Argentine President Fernando de la Rua has resigned amid some of the worst social unrest in more than a decade over his government's austerity policies, a government source said.
De la Rua, one of Argentina's most unpopular democratic leaders, in a speech late on Wednesday night blamed the rioting on "enemies of the republic."
A Peronist, who chairs the Senate, is the first in line to succeed De la Rua since the vice-president resigned in 2000, weakened the ruling centre-left coalition.
onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,73231-1-9,00.html   (867 words)

  
 CNN.com - Argentina presidential elections set for March 3 - December 21, 2001
De la Rua resigned Thursday after two days of bloody rioting sparked by the country's economic woes and after the opposition Peronist Party refused to form a coalition government.
Before the legislative vote Friday, De la Rua lifted the 30-day state of siege he imposed late Wednesday in an effort to quell the riots.
After De la Rua's resigned Thursday, Fitch, an international rating agency, said the default by the Argentine government -- South America's second-largest economy -- on about $97 billion of outstanding debt -- was "imminent." Fitch gave Argentina's bonds a "DDD" rating, which relegates them to junk status.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/12/21/argentina.crisis   (530 words)

  
 Clarín.com - De la Rúa habló, pero lo hizo en España
Es la misma teoría que esbozó ante la jueza María Servini de Cubría, que investiga la represión del 20 de diciembre.
La jueza lo benefició con una falta de mérito.
Además, De la Rúa comentó que en su gestión "también asomaron quienes buscaban la devaluación monetaria.
www.clarin.com /diario/2003/09/27/p-02201.htm   (395 words)

  
 The GULLY | Americas | Argentina Explodes
The resignation of President Fernando de la Rúa this evening in the face of violent street protests will likely plunge Argentina into an institutional crisis that may exacerbate the country's economic woes.
De la Rúa will be temporarily succeeded by Senate President Ramón Puerta until the two houses of Congress jointly designate a new President.
De la Rúa's resignation follows four days of angry protests against his government's austerity measures.
www.thegully.com /essays/argentina/011220_food_riots_deaths.html   (464 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
Former Argentine president Fernando de la Rua denied this Saturday allegations from a former congressional official who claims his administration bribed senators with millions of dollars to gain approval in 2000 of a contentious labour reform bill.
De la Rúa was forced to resign in December 2001 in the midst of social upheaval and collapse of the Argentine economy.
De la Rua's denial was discarded by his former vice president at the time of the alleged bribe-paying, Carlos Alvarez who confirmed in comments to the local media that the Executive branch distributed payments among corrupt lawmakers.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=2996   (1210 words)

  
 Argentina's De La Rua Is Skipping the Honeymoon (int'l edition)
De la Rua might call it ''rational inexuberance.'' He knows he will have to skip the honeymoon and move directly to the task ministering to the ailing economy.
De la Rua is also under pressure to deliver a prescription for reining in the budget deficit without driving the country deeper into recession.
De la Rua will probably have to raise some levies and eliminate exemptions on others in order to achieve the $4.5 billion deficit ceiling set for 2000.
www.businessweek.com /1999/99_45/b3654245.htm   (742 words)

  
 Catholic World News : Argentine Presidential Candidate Avoids Pro-Life Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
De la Rua and Carlos Alvarez, who together make up the presidential ticket of the political alliance between the Radical Party and a left wing group known as FREPASO, visited Archbishop Karlic in his Archdiocese of Parana to express their allegiance with the Church's concern on social issues.
Later, during a press conference, de la Rua said: "We prefer not to talk about the issue," but criticized the Argentine government's decision to establish a "Day of the Unborn Child," which will be celebrated for the first time on March 25.
De la Rua is at present heading all opinion polls, but the ruling "Partido Justicialista" has not yet named its presidential ticket.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=9743   (295 words)

  
 Argentina's President Resigns Amid Chaos | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 21.12.2001
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Police officers drag a demonstrator in Buenos Aires by his hair as they arrest him.
De la Rua was forced to departed by helicopter on Thursday as riots raged outside the palace.
On Wednesday, Argentina's President Fernando de la Rua had declared a 30-day state of siege: "Acts of violence have occurred that endanger innocent people and property owners, and have created a lawless situation," de la Rua announced.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,359354,00.html   (654 words)

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