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Montevideo, August 21st 2026 - 08:44 UTC

Argentina

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 23:16 UTC

    Cristina Kirchner expands her international legal team to take the Vialidad case abroad

    The legal team is weighing two possible routes

    Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has added Brazilian jurist Rafael Valim to the team preparing a filing before international bodies to challenge her conviction in the Vialidad case, according to sources close to her cited by the Argentine press. Those sources did not specify when he will begin working or what the first procedural steps will be, and the information has not been officially confirmed by her defense.

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:24 UTC

    Milei backs Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy, drawing a rebuke from Brazil's governing party

    Milei said Brazil faces what he called a “Lula risk” and argued the country is heading toward a debt crisis for lack of fiscal adjustment

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Saturday endorsed the presidential candidacy of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro at the Liberal Party (PL) National Convention in São Paulo, in a speech with sharp criticism of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that drew rejection from Brazil's governing party and a response from the judiciary.

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

    “Brazil bows to no one”: the official reaction to Milei's speech in São Paulo

    STF President Luiz Edson Fachin signed a note on behalf of the court describing Milei's remarks as a “disrespectful reference” to a justice of the country's highest court

    Brazil's government and the leadership of its judiciary responded on Saturday to the speech by Argentine President Javier Milei at the convention that formalized Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy, in which he sharply criticized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and disparaged a Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice.

  • Saturday, July 25th 2026 - 09:22 UTC

    Goldman Sachs cuts Argentina's growth forecast to 2.7% and looks ahead to the elections

    Despite the revision, the bank considered that the economy is “expanding at a moderate pace” and maintained a favorable assessment of several aspects of the economic program

    Goldman Sachs lowered its growth forecast for Argentina's economy in 2026 from 3% to 2.7% and anticipated a possible contraction in activity during the second quarter, according to a report by the bank. The institution also said economic performance will increasingly be assessed against the presidential elections of October 2027.

  • Saturday, July 25th 2026 - 09:14 UTC

    New US tariff scheme expands Argentine zero-duty lines to 2,212

    Argentina was also placed in the lowest band of the new regime, with an additional 10% tariff, the same rate that previously applied

    The new US tariff scheme that took effect on Friday raised to 2,212 the number of Argentine tariff lines that can enter the US market at a 0% rate. To the 1,675 lines already covered by the Reciprocal Trade and Investment Agreement (ARTI), signed on February 5 in Washington, another 537 were added following a review by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).

  • Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 22:13 UTC

    US court upholds $390 million judgment against Argentina over Aerolíneas

    The decisive legal point was the statute of limitations

    The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by Argentina and left standing the ruling that recognizes an arbitral award of $390,907,115 in favor of the fund Titan Consortium, over the 2008 expropriation of Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral Líneas Aéreas Cielos del Sur. The amount was calculated as of December 10, 2024, with subsequent interest to be added.

  • Wednesday, July 22nd 2026 - 07:18 UTC

    US readies tariffs on some 60 economies over forced labor, with Argentina among them

    The proposal, put forward by Greer's office in June following an investigation launched in March, contemplates two tiers

    US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said his government will announce new tariffs on some 60 economies in the coming days for failing to enforce bans on the import of goods produced with forced labor. “The US has laws to prohibit trading goods with forced labor. Other countries, most of them, don't have a law, and those that do really don't enforce it,” he said on Tuesday in an interview with CNBC.

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 21:34 UTC

    Baseless conspiracy theories about Argentina's defeat go viral and are debunked

    The coach attributed the defeat to the opponent's performance: “We lost because they played better, it's good to acknowledge that.”

    In the hours after Argentina's 1-0 defeat to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final, social media filled with posts claiming, without offering evidence, that the result was “fixed.” Fact-checkers and Argentina's own coach, Lionel Scaloni, moved to dismiss those versions.

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 20:18 UTC

    Argentina joins FAO treaty against illegal fishing, tightening control in the South Atlantic

    The area is cut across by the sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falklands

    Argentina on July 17 enacted the law approving its accession to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a significant step for fisheries governance in the southwest Atlantic. The treaty, in force since 2016, is the only binding international instrument specifically designed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 07:10 UTC

    The Falklands, FIFA and the Future of the British Overseas Territories

    Members of the Argentine team held up a banner exclaiming ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’ (‘The Falklands are Argentine’).

    By Peter Clegg (*) <br />
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    I have been researching the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) and their geopolitical relationships for over twenty years, and I cannot remember so much focus on them as there has been in recent days. The FIFA World Cup match between England and Argentina provoked heated discussions over the future of the Falkland Islands (or Malvinas if you are Argentine). Gibraltar has received significant media coverage with the removal of the border infrastructure with Spain. The Caricom Reparations Committee has called for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to be decolonized by the UK, and new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will likely retain the government’s commitment to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. So, are we witnessing centrifugal forces that could fracture the BOTs’ relationship with the ‘UK family’?