Argentina

• Saturday, February 14th 2026 - 23:38 UTC

  Libra token scandal: what is known one year after Milei’s post

  

  One year after Argentine President Javier Milei posted on X promoting the $Libra crypto token —and later deleted the message— the episode remains under legal and political scrutiny, with proceedings in Argentina and civil claims in the United States still active.

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• Friday, February 13th 2026 - 23:57 UTC

  What does Argentina’s new lower age of criminal responsibility law entail?

  

  Argentina’s debate over a “lower age of criminal responsibility” centres on the minimum age at which the State can formally prosecute a minor. The lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies) has given initial approval to a new Juvenile Criminal Regime that would lower that threshold from 16 to 14 and redefine procedures and sanctions for adolescents.

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• Friday, February 13th 2026 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina moves first in Mercosur as lower house backs EU trade deal

  

  Argentina became the first Mercosur country to secure an initial legislative green light for the trade agreement with the European Union, after the Chamber of Deputies approved the text late on Thursday. The bloc also includes Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, which have launched their own domestic ratification processes.

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• Thursday, February 12th 2026 - 21:34 UTC

  6.1-magnitude quake hits Chile’s Coquimbo region; authorities rule out tsunami risk

  

  A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northern Chile on Thursday morning, with the epicentre in the Coquimbo region. Chile’s National Seismological Center (CSN) said the event occurred at 10:34:30 local time, locating it 13 km west of Punitaqui at preliminary coordinates of latitude -30.781 and longitude -71.613, with an estimated depth of 54 km.

• Thursday, February 12th 2026 - 12:50 UTC

  Argentina’s Senate approves Milei’s labour reform amid protests and clashes

  

  Argentina’s Senate gave initial approval to President Javier Milei’s labor reform bill after a marathon session that ran for more than 14 hours and unfolded amid street protests outside Congress. The draft cleared the upper chamber by 42 votes to 30 and will now move to the Lower House (Chamber of Deputies) for final consideration.

• Wednesday, February 11th 2026 - 05:16 UTC

  Argentina Senate set to vote labor reform after last-minute deal on key changes

  

  Argentina’s ruling coalition and centrist opposition blocs in the Senate reached a deal to vote on a labor reform bill on Wednesday, starting at 11 a.m., during an extraordinary session, according to the final draft circulated in the upper house and local reporting. The revisions steered by Senate ruling bloc leader Patricia Bullrich are key to advancing the labor reform and include dropping the corporate income tax cut—preserving revenues for provinces and the federal government—concessions to unions and business chambers on mandatory contributions, maintaining the allocation to union-run health funds, and moderating the original severance fund proposal.

• Wednesday, February 11th 2026 - 04:28 UTC

  Milei calls Trump “an example of courage and leadership” in video sent to Latino Wall Street event

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei called Donald Trump “an example of courage and leadership” in a video message sent to the Hispanic Prosperity Gala hosted by Latino Wall Street at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, after receiving an Economic Freedom award, local outlets reported.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2026 - 21:14 UTC

  Argentina: January inflation hits 2.9% and 12-month rate reaches 32.4%, INDEC says

  

  Argentina’s inflation came in at 2.9% in January, taking the 12-month rate to 32.4%, according to the national statistics agency INDEC. The reading marked an acceleration of 0.1 percentage points from December.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2026 - 04:25 UTC

  Argentina faces ARS 10 trillion maturities as Treasury sets Feb. 11 debt auction menu

  

  Argentina’s Economy Ministry published the instrument menu for the Feb. 11 debt auction, closely watched by markets given the size of maturities: nearly ARS 10 trillion (around USD 7 million), about ARS 9 trillion of which is held by private investors.

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina regulates ‘Inocencia Fiscal’ to bring ‘mattress dollars’ into the banking system

  

  Argentina’s government has issued the implementing rules for its Inocencia Fiscal law, formally activating a voluntary Simplified Income Tax Regime (RSG) aimed at encouraging taxpayers to bring undeclared savings —popularly known as “mattress dollars”— into the formal economy, while shifting enforcement toward compliance “going forward.”