President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today began a much awaited televised speech at the Government House with several announcements for pensioners, including discounts in goods and services for holders of the Argenta credit card, as well as a 35 percent discount for media and long distance train tickets.
Argenta’s financing ceiling was extended to 30,000 pesos, making it possible for pensioners to withdraw upto 50 percent of the cash from ATMs.
She referred to the current pension moratorium. When it is culminated, “97 percent of Argentines will be able to retire,” she stated highlighting a recent World Bank report which indicated Argentina “is the country with the highest pension pay rate in dollars in Latin America, 442 dollars, with Brazil following us with 300 dollars.”
Accompanied by the cabinet ministers, with Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández to her right and Economy Minister Axel Kicillof to her left, she also spoke about the coming end of her mandate.
«I hope you don’t need me in 2019 because that will mean someone who did things better came after me and you won’t need me or anyone. That is the country that I want,” the president stated. “Hopefully on 2019 I will be doing something else, anything I like.”
The president mentioned an alliance unveiled today in the United States between Daimler and partner Nissan to develop a mid-sized pickup truck for Mercedes-Benz, as the German premium auto maker seeks to narrow the sales gap with rival BMW.
The new Mercedes-Benz pickup targets commercial and private clients in Europe, Latin America, Australia and South Africa, and will share some of the underpinnings with an all-new Nissan NP300 truck, Daimler and Nissan said in a joint statement.
The news for Argentina is that Mercedes-Benz 1-ton pickup truck will be built by Nissan in Córdoba province, along with the Nissan NP300 and a Renault-branded truck, for Latin America, Daimler said, for which a 600 million dollar investment will be made.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald