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Montevideo, June 22nd 2025 - 07:49 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • 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.

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  • Wednesday, June 18th 2025 - 08:24 UTC

    Milei creates local version of FBI

    The Federal Police will focus on the root of crime, not “on the symptom,” Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich signed a decree expanding the scope of the Federal Police's (PFA) duties to focus primarily on investigative tasks, it was announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires. Tuesday's reform repeals a 1958 decree-law from military ruling times.

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  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Barrage of chaisaw decrees expected in Buenos Aires

    If these cuts are not enacted by July 8, they will have to wait after the Oct. 26 mid-term elections, Sturzenegger explained

    After President Javier Milei returned Saturday from a ten-day tour including key European cities plus Israel, Buenos Aires is bracing for a barrage of further chainsaw decrees aimed at cutting down State spending as the powers in this regard delegated onto the head of State are to expire on July 8.

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  • Friday, June 13th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Milei leaves Israel before airspace closure and reaches Spain

    Milei was to depart for Buenos Aires Saturday after a series of engagements in Madrid, having left Israel only hours before its airspace was closed

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed safely in Spain Thursday after leaving Israel before the full-scale attack against Iran's military and nuclear targets, which resulted, among other measures, in the closure of Tel Aviv's airspace.

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  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 21:04 UTC

    Milei confirms Argentina's Embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem

    Milei also recalled the two antisemitic terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday during his speech before the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that the South American country would be relocating its Embassy to West Jerusalem in 2026. The first Argentine president ever to address the Knesset, Milei condemned the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas and demanded the release of all Argentine hostages.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

    Milei's presence at an event focused on environmental issues came as a surprise

    Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:35 UTC

    Milei lands in Israel and prays at the Wailing Wall

    Milei will stay in Israel for a few days to receive an accolade and sign a key understanding with Netanyahu

    After arriving in Israel on Monday, Argentine President Javier Milei's first activity was to pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, alongside his Presidential Secretary and sister Karina Milei, Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Argentine Ambassador to Tel Aviv Axel Wahnish, and Israel's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Eyal Sela.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:06 UTC

    Uruguayan version of Milei's LLA launched

    Uruguay is dying because of collectivist ideologies, Quintana argued

    Little-known Uruguayan politician Nicolás Quintana Monday presided over the launch of the local version of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Argentine President Javier Milei's party, which now has its own version across the River Plate.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei boasts his government's achievements in Madrid

    “By 2026, inflation in Argentina will be a thing of the past,” Milei said in Madrid

    President Javier Milei told the Madrid Economic Forum this weekend that his government had overreached his campaign goals with a “brutal adjustment” that eliminated the country's fiscal deficit, making Argentina one of five countries worldwide not in the red.

  • Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Can Milei be arrested when he lands in Spain later this month?

    Egío insisted Milei should be arrested “as soon as he arrives at the airport, that they arrest Javier Milei, until he returns everything he has stolen”

    Spanish Congressman Víctor Egío of Podemos has called for the arrest of Argentine President Javier Milei when he lands in Madrid later this month to attend an event hosted by his like-minded rightwing party Vox. The Libertarian leader is scheduled to stopover there on his way back to Buenos Aires from an official tour to Rome, Paris, and Tel Aviv to meet local authorities and Pope Leo XIV.

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