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Montevideo, December 11th 2025 - 19:48 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, June 24th 2025 - 16:09 UTC

    Milei claims Argentina is the world’s 23rd military power — but global rankings say otherwise

    Argentina, the eighth-largest country by land area, faces real security and logistical challenges in protecting its vast borders

    Argentine President Javier Milei has sparked controversy by claiming that Argentina is currently the 23rd strongest military power in the world. The statement, made during a recent interview in Casa Rosada, credited Defense Minister Luis Petri’s leadership. However, data from international defense rankings tell a different story.

  • Tuesday, June 24th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Argentina's GDP grows 5.8%, Indec reports

    Imports significantly outpaced exports, the national agency also noted

    Argentina's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.8% year-over-year and 0.8% compared to the last quarter of 2024 in the first quarter of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) reported Monday in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, June 24th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Family of autistic child sues Milei over social media posting

    Milei has already taken heavy flak for his stance against State aid for handicapped people

    The family of 12-year-old Ian Moche, an autism awareness activist, sued Argentine President Javier Milei over an offensive post on X.

  • Tuesday, June 24th 2025 - 10:12 UTC

    IMF mission arriving in Buenos Aires to monitor progress

    Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo's management fell short of the IMF's reserve target

    A technical mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Bikas Joshi, is due in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to conduct the first review of Argentina's new economic program. The proceedings were initially set for June 15 but postponed to allow more time for the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei to meet reserve targets.

  • Monday, June 23rd 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    “We are on the right side of history”: Milei defends bombings in Iran

    Milei endorsed Petri's statements

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei has publicly supported the recent US and Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Flag Day showcases rift between Milei and Vilarruel

    Milei spoke from the polo field in Buenos Aires, citing agenda problems to go to Rosario

    The June 20 National Flag Day commemorating another anniversary of General Manuel Belgrano's passing further showcased the rift between Argentine President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who appeared at different celebrations hundreds of kilometers apart.

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    CFK sends crowds away from her home and delivers a recorded message

    Milei's is an “unsustainable model,” CFK argued

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner told her followers Friday in a recorded message from her house arrest in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución that Security Minister Patricia Bullrich was seeking “to provoke chaos” and insisted that Javier Milei's policies could collapse sooner or later.

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    CFK may show up at balcony, court says

    The former President needs to make sure not to alter the neighborhood's normal life

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), under house arrest for a conviction in the Vialidad corruption case, has been fitted with an electronic anklet to monitor her location, as ordered by Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 2 (TOF 2)

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

    Jones Huala's detention too strict, lawers say

    Jones Huala's lawyers say he is endyring humiliating conditions

    Facundo Jones Huala, leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), is being held under extremely severe conditions following his June 8 arrest in the Argentine Patagonia city of El Bolsón for encouraging acts of violence, a group of lawyers representing him claimed Thursday.

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Argentina: unemployment hits record figures

    Unemployment grew 0.2% yoy in Q1 of 2025

    Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2021, up 0.2% from Q1 2024 and 1.5% from Q4 2024, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Thursday in Buenos Aires.