Argentina

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolivian prosecutors open a second case against the consultant who advised Milei and Paz

  

  Prosecutors in La Paz have opened an investigation on their own initiative into alleged illicit enrichment by Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, who was charged this week in Santa Cruz with attempted femicide following the shooting of his former partner, lawyer Nadia Beller.

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 08:59 UTC

  The prosecutor in the Maradona case says a crime occurred and the trial will not collapse

  

  Deputy chief prosecutor for San Isidro Patricio Ferrari said on Thursday that the delivery of medical records belonging to Diego Armando Maradona's father, rather than the footballer's own, may constitute a criminal offence, and ruled out that the discovery will halt the trial over the star's death in November 2020.

• Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:13 UTC

  A judge demands urgent reports from Argentina's government on the fate of road funds

  

  Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, sitting in La Plata, this week admitted a class action and requested urgent reports from the Ministry of Economy, the National Roads Directorate and Banco Nación on the use of resources from the Integrated Road System (SisVial), a trust fund financed by the tax on liquid fuels whose legal purpose is the construction and maintenance of national highways.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

  A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil

  

  Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

  An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting

  

  Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:52 UTC

  Argentina's vice-president says she is “extremely worried” about those who cannot make ends meet

  

  Argentina's vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, has again distanced herself from Javier Milei's government, voicing concern over unemployment and the financial difficulties facing households. “I am extremely worried about Argentines who today have no work or who cannot make ends meet,” she said at the opening of Expo Venado 2026, an agricultural fair in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe province.

• Monday, August 17th 2026 - 23:48 UTC

  A Chelsea fan displays a Falklands flag as Enzo Fernández comes on

  

  A Chelsea supporter held up a Falkland Islands flag at Stamford Bridge on Saturday as Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernández came onto the pitch during the club's final pre-season friendly, a 3-1 win over Real Sociedad.

• Sunday, August 16th 2026 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine household arrears reach 17.5% and the government rules out intervening

  

  Arrears on credit to individuals in Argentina reached 17.5% of total lending in June, according to a study by Universidad Austral and the consultancy Eco Go based on central bank data. Javier Milei's government has ruled out intervening and maintains the solution must come from the market.

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

  Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 10:43 UTC

  A year from the presidential vote, Argentina's parties begin to define alliances

  

  With little more than a year to go before Argentina's presidential elections of October 2027, the governing party and the main opposition force began this week to realign their positions. La Libertad Avanza, the party of President Javier Milei, resumed talks with former president Mauricio Macri's PRO, while the various currents of Peronism agreed a truce aimed at blocking the electoral reform the government is promoting.