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Montevideo, May 14th 2026 - 16:00 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 13:14 UTC

    Argentina sees new university protest as government pledges post-march dialogue

    The National Interuniversity Council estimates that transfers to national universities fell by 45.6% in real terms between 2023 and 2026, while sector salaries rose 158% against accumulated inflation

    Argentina's public universities are staging the fourth Federal University March on Tuesday against the budget adjustment imposed by Javier Milei's government, with the main rally in Plaza de Mayo and simultaneous mobilizations in the country's major cities, while the national administration announced it will meet with rectors after the protest to discuss the allocation of funds for university hospitals. The day combines a strike with suspended classes, a broad opposition turnout, and an official discursive shift aimed at opening a dialogue channel without yielding on the substance of the dispute.

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  • Monday, May 11th 2026 - 20:32 UTC

    Milei government cuts nearly 1.79 billion dollar from budget with sharp education adjustment

    The politically most sensitive cut affects the Education Secretariat, with a reduction of 78.7 billion pesos (around 56 million dollars)

    The government of Javier Milei amended Argentina's 2026 budget on Monday with a cut of nearly 2.5 trillion pesos (around 1.79 billion dollars at the parallel exchange rate) —equivalent to approximately 1.6% of the total— in an administrative decision that deepens the adjustment effort to sustain the fiscal surplus target agreed with the International Monetary Fund. The measure, signed by Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni and Economy Minister Luis Caputo, comes one day before the fourth Federal University March, called for Tuesday with its main event in Plaza de Mayo.

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  • Monday, May 11th 2026 - 03:40 UTC

    Paraná waterway: Milei's largest privatization advances amid tailored-bid suspicions

    The process has drawn controversy. A group of opposition lawmakers requested the tender's suspension after alleging that a technical report attributed to the United Nations had been forged

    The tender to concession Argentina's Paraná-Paraguay waterway for 25 years —the country's main fluvial artery, through which roughly 85% of foreign trade is shipped— has entered its final stretch with two Belgian finalists, Jan de Nul and DEME, and mounting political questions over the tender's design, the local partners involved, and the integrity of the supporting technical documentation.

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  • Saturday, May 9th 2026 - 05:49 UTC

    Argentine court reinstates full force of Milei's labor reform

    On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a per saltum appeal filed by the national government seeking to fast-track a definitive ruling

    An Argentine court on Friday lifted the precautionary injunction that had suspended 82 of the 218 articles of the labor reform pushed by President Javier Milei, restoring the full force of one of the most contested laws in the libertarian program.

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  • Tuesday, May 5th 2026 - 18:28 UTC

    Bullrich vows that Argentina's government will capture former guerrilla Apablaza for extradition to Chile

    Apablaza, a former member of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, is identified by Chilean justice as the mastermind of the assassination of Senator Jaime Guzmán, architect of the 1980 Constitution

    Argentine senator and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said in Santiago on Tuesday that Javier Milei's government maintains “the firm determination” to locate Chilean former guerrilla Galvarino Sergio Apablaza, on the run since April 1 in Argentine territory, in order to extradite him to Chile. “If he is in Argentina, we are going to find him. That is the commitment of the Argentine president, it is the commitment of the government,” Bullrich told local media during her visit to the Andean country, where she will meet with Chilean President José Antonio Kast.

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  • Thursday, April 30th 2026 - 01:47 UTC

    'I committed no crime': Adorni weathers opposition pressure in Congress with full Milei's backing

    The Cabinet Chief's defense centered on drawing a line between his personal assets and acts of government

    Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni refused to resign on Wednesday during his first management report before the Chamber of Deputies, in a seven-hour session marked by allegations of alleged illicit enrichment against him and by the unprecedented presence of President Javier Milei in the chamber's gallery, alongside his sister and Secretary General of the Presidency Karina Milei, and the entire cabinet. “I committed no crime and I will prove it in court,” Adorni told the plenary, on a day the ruling party sought to turn into a political show of support and that the opposition transformed into a parallel trial.

  • Tuesday, April 28th 2026 - 04:10 UTC

    Argentine VP tells islanders to 'go back to England' as US presses UK over F-16 jets

    Villarruel made the statement despite despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British

    The Falklands sovereignty dispute returned to the centre of the diplomatic agenda this week with two developments of immediate impact: comments by Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel demanding that islanders “go back to England” if they “feel English” — despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British — and a disclosure published by The Telegraph that the United States had pressured the British government to tolerate the delivery to Argentina of F-16 fighter jets sourced from allied territory.

  • Friday, April 24th 2026 - 20:11 UTC

    Milei reaffirms Falklands claim as US-Argentina alignment deepens with State Department visit

    “We are doing everything humanly possible to return the Falklands to Argentina. Sovereignty is non-negotiable, but it must be handled judiciously, with brains,” Milei said

    President Javier Milei reaffirmed on Friday Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands and said his government is “making unprecedented progress,” hours after the leak of an internal Pentagon memorandum that considers reviewing US diplomatic support for the United Kingdom over the archipelago as retaliation for London's refusal to join military operations against Iran.

  • Thursday, April 23rd 2026 - 11:35 UTC

    Tech magnate Peter Thiel meets Milei after a week of private contacts with the Argentine government

    Thiel, whose fortune is estimated at over $23 billion, has spent at least a week in the Argentine capital. He is reported to have completed the purchase of a home in Buenos Aires

    Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir and PayPal and one of the most influential figures in the global technology sector, met with President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada on Thursday, official sources confirmed. The meeting, scheduled for 2:00 p.m., was the culmination of a week of reserved activity in Buenos Aires that included high-level contacts with key members of the Argentine government.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2026 - 03:59 UTC

    Milei drops to 14th among Latin American Presidents, ranks among region's five worst-rated

    Milei shares the bottom bloc with Bernardo Arévalo (Guatemala), Daniel Noboa (Ecuador), José María Balcázar (Peru), Delcy Rodríguez (Venezuela), and José Raúl Mulino (Dominican Republic)

    Argentine President Javier Milei fell to 14th place out of 18 leaders in the regional approval ranking for April 2026, consolidating his entry into the group of six worst-rated heads of state in Latin America. The survey, carried out by polling firm CB Global Data, registered a 36.2% positive image and a 59.7% negative reading, a 23.5-point gap that represents the widest imbalance since the start of his administration.

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