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Montevideo, November 5th 2025 - 13:23 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:01 UTC

    “Argentina’s finances just got even more surreal”, by The Economist

    President Milei and mentor, Donald Trump, Make Argentina Great Again

    On September 22nd, 15 minutes before Argentina’s foreign-exchange markets opened, America’s government made an intervention. “Argentina is a systemically important US ally,” Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, wrote on X, a social network. He added that the United States would “do what is needed” and that “all options for stabilization are on the table.”

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:08 UTC

    CFK fears peso devaluation after Oct. 26 midterm elections

    CFK also highlighted Milei's failure to deliver on his election promises

    As the Argentine Government of Javier Milei grapples to keep the local peso from plunging against the US dollar, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner posted from her house arrest that everybody knew about the impending devaluation after the Oct. 26 midterm elections. “Oh, Milei! ... It seems to me that they realized that after Sunday the 26th, you would devalue,” CFK wrote.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei announces new meeting with Trump at White House

    Milei and his entourage will be staying at the Blair Residence, spared for visiting close allies

    Argentine President Javier Milei will meet on Oct. 14 with his US counterpart, Donald J. Trump, at the White House, just a few days ahead of the midterm elections in the South American country, Casa Rosada confirmed Tuesday. “MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. End,” Milei posted on X.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Milei restores ties with Macri after Buenos Aires defeat

    The reunion between the two leaders comes less than a month before the national legislative elections

    Argentine President Javier Milei has resumed dialogue with former president Mauricio Macri after more than a year of political distance. The rapprochement comes in the wake of La Libertad Avanza’s electoral defeat in Buenos Aires province, where Peronism won by more than one million votes.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Israeli community in Argentina seeks legal remedy to anti-Semitism episode

    Berenstein explained that a legal complaint was lodged for the possible commission of crimes

    The Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA) has filed a dual complaint—legal and educational—following the viral spread of a video showing high school students chanting overtly anti-Semitic slogans (“Today we burn Jews”) during a graduation trip.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Argentina's temporarily dropping export duties shakes CBOT

    A total of 86% of the 19.6 million tons that reached the US$7 billion ceiling by Thursday were registered by seven export companies. And that had an impact on the grain market

    The government of Argentina temporarily implemented a zero export duty quota on grain shipments (up to a US$7 billion ceiling), which was exhausted by exporters in just three days.

  • Tuesday, September 30th 2025 - 11:38 UTC

    Falklands responds to Milei, we trust in self-determination and British support

    Spink: “The Falklands are used to demands from Argentine presidents, it's nothing new, nor surprising, nor does it cause panic”

    “In the Falkland Islands, we feel very secure and confident with the support we receive from all British political parties for the exercise of our right to self-determination and our desire to remain a British Overseas Territory,” said Falkland Islands MLA Roger Spink in a telephone interview with GBnews from the UK.

  • Tuesday, September 30th 2025 - 09:39 UTC

    Argentine Libertarian Congressman tied to drug trafficker wanted in Texas

    It is becoming more apparent that Espert is not the corruption fighter he claimed to be

    Argentine Congressman José Luis Espert of President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza has been reported to have received campaign funds and other kinds of support from an alleged drug trafficker, now under arrest pending his extradition to the United States.

  • Monday, September 29th 2025 - 09:29 UTC

    Delays forecast in Argentina's air travel on Monday due to strike

    ANAC workers will hold assemblies to discuss wage and labor demands at the country's main 21 airports

    Air travelers in Argentina are in for a troubled journey on Monday, as disruptions to domestic and international flights are to be expected, given the announcement by workers of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) that they would be conducting a series of assemblies at all 21 major airports.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Falklands, Argentina’s Milei two lanes approach

    President Javier Milei before the General Assembly complains UN has not made advances in helping Argentina with its claims over the South Atlantic Islands

    Argentine cabinet chief Guillermo Francos received this week, recently arrived new UK ambassador David Cairns, and according to reports cooperation, trade and bilateral investments were the issues addressed by the two top officials.