Argentina

• Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

  Milei ratifies Argentina's alignment with US

  

  Argentina President Javier Milei announced Friday that his country's alliance with the United States had become a part of his administration's “new foreign policy doctrine” because both nations “share a tradition based on freedom, the defense of life and private property.”

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 21:34 UTC

  Kicillof blames Milei for writing himself off from battle against dengue

  

  Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof accused Argentine President Javier Milei of writing himself off the country's plight with dengue fever and leaving it all up to the different jurisdictions. Kicillof, a political figure akin to Kirchnerism and arguably the most prominent opposition leader these days, said the federal government behaved as one of a “deserting and absent national State.” The Libertarian administration has no State strategy to tackle the problem, he also argued.

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 21:04 UTC

  Maduro angered by Milei's calls to sanction Venezuela

  

  President Nicolás Maduro Thursday criticized his Argentine counterpart for promoting sanctions against Venezuela. The Bolivarian successor of Hugo Chaves Frías stressed that with Milei came “fascism” and “Zionism, which is the new fascism.”

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Milei makes snap trip to Ushuaia to meet Southern Command Chief Richardson

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei made a snap trip to Ushuaia late Thursday to meet US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson after Governor Gustavo Melella refused to welcome her and insisted she was “persona non grata.”

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

  Assassination attempt against Milei foiled

  

  A homeless 29-year-old man wielding a machete was arrested Thursday in Buenos Aires as he tried to break into Casa Rosada to kill Javier Milei. “I am God and I am going to kill the President,” he shouted as he was being handcuffed.

• Thursday, April 4th 2024 - 21:31 UTC

  IMF praises Milei's achievements but says social and political support needed

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Communications Director Julie Kozack praised the “impressive” achievements of President Javier Milei's administration in curbing inflation in Argentina but warned that “it remains important to work pragmatically to build social and political support to help ensure the durability and effectiveness of the reforms” implemented.

• Thursday, April 4th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  General Richardson kicks off Buenos Aires agenda

  

  US Southern Command (Southcom) Chief General Laura Richardson held a meeting in Buenos Aires with Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse and Ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Affairs) and Luis Petri (Defense) as well as with Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces Head General Xavier Isaac to discuss “military cooperation” between both countries, with a focus on China's presence in the region. In addition, Argentine purchases of defense equipment were also reviewed. Also participating in the talks was US Ambassador Marc Stanley.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 19:58 UTC

  Paraguay not unwilling to pay Waterway toll, FM says

  

  Paraguayan Foreign Ministry Rubén Ramírez Lescano told Congress Wednesday in Asunción that the government of President Santiago Peña was not against barges sailing through the Paraná Waterway paying toll provided there was a service in return.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  Milei pledges to obtain a roadmap for the return of Malvinas during his mandate

  

  On the 42nd anniversary of the start of the Falklands/Malvinas war, President Javier Milei pledged that during his term in office “we will have a roadmap so that the Malvinas Islands return to Argentine hands,” underlining that the South Atlantic Islands sovereignty claim is an includible mandate for all Argentines, but for this we need “a country with a vigorous and prosperous economy” and that respects its armed forces.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  Milei and Villarruel embrace next at the Cenotaph

  

  Taking advantage of the commemoration to honor the Heroes of Malvinas, Milei stressed the importance of a strong and prosperous economy, based on the concept of freedom to produce and trade and thus respected internationally, as the basis for ensuring that claims over the Malvinas sovereignty will be taken seriously, and with prospects of advancing. He said that a leadership that for decades only produced more poor people and made Argentina a serial defaulter, had no chances of being listened or considered.