Argentina

• Sunday, March 29th 2026 - 11:33 UTC

  Milei's Cabinet Chief formally charged with alleged illicit enrichment

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni has been formally charged with alleged illicit enrichment after federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita pushed criminal proceedings forward and requested twelve evidentiary measures from Judge Ariel Lijo aimed at reconstructing the official's asset history since 2022.

• Sunday, March 29th 2026 - 11:29 UTC

  A week to forget for Milei: Adorni scandal, skeptical markets, cultural battle collapse

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei's administration closed one of its worst weeks in office, cornered by an expanding judicial front against Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni, adverse market signals, and the collapse of its discursive offensive on historical memory.

• Sunday, March 29th 2026 - 11:22 UTC

  Argentine lawyer held in Brazil on racial slur charges faces new uncertainty after court reversal

  

  Agostina Páez, a 29-year-old Argentine lawyer and influencer from the province of Santiago del Estero, has been held in Rio de Janeiro since January 14, when she was filmed making racist gestures toward employees of a bar in the Ipanema neighborhood. The video quickly went viral and led to three criminal complaints for racial slur, a crime that carries a penalty of two to five years in prison per offense under Brazilian law.

• Saturday, March 28th 2026 - 03:57 UTC

  New York court overturns $16 billion ruling against Argentina in YPF expropriation case

  

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York overturned on Thursday the ruling that required Argentina to pay over $16 billion in compensation to minority shareholders of YPF for the 2012 expropriation of the oil company. The decision, issued with one dissenting vote, represents Argentina's largest judicial victory abroad in over a decade of litigation.

• Thursday, March 26th 2026 - 09:27 UTC

  Patagonian pumas add penguins to their diet in unprecedented predator-seabird interaction

  

  A group of pumas in Monte León National Park, in Argentina's Santa Cruz province, has incorporated penguins as a regular part of its diet — an unprecedented phenomenon being studied by a National Geographic-funded scientific team, according to a report published by Argentine newspaper La Nación.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 23:45 UTC

  Thousands march in Buenos Aires on 50th anniversary of military coup under “Never Again” banner

  

  Tens of thousands marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup that installed Argentina's last military dictatorship, in a day shaped by the dispute between the human rights movement and President Javier Milei's government over how that period is narrated.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina marches on 50th anniversary of coup that led to the Falklands War and the regime's fall

  

  Thousands of people are expected to gather this Tuesday in Plaza de Mayo and in Argentina’s major cities to mark the 50th anniversary of the March 24, 1976, military coup that installed a dictatorship responsible for thousands of forced disappearances and which, in its final stage, launched the Falklands War in a desperate bid to cling to power.

• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 01:09 UTC

  Milei willing to send troops to the Middle East if requested by Trump

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei's willingness to send troops to the Middle East if requested by the United States has fuelled growing concern in Argentina, a country that has historically maintained an equidistant stance on international conflicts and where fears of possible reprisals are emerging.

• Monday, March 23rd 2026 - 05:40 UTC

  Republican operative's proposal for US support on Malvinas electrifies Argentine media

  

  A social media post by Republican operative Marc Zell urging the Trump administration to reconsider its position on the Falklands/Malvinas and support Argentina's sovereignty claim triggered a wave of coverage across Argentine media over the past week, despite being based on a false premise and carrying no official backing from Washington.

• Friday, March 20th 2026 - 16:40 UTC

  Argentina's Cabinet Chief under judicial scrutiny for hidden assets and questionable state tenders

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni is confronting a growing list of criminal complaints ranging from the alleged omission of real estate assets in his sworn financial disclosure to suspected irregularities in public contracts linked to Tecnópolis, a public state-owned fairground located in Buenos Aires.