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Tag: Javier Milei

  • Friday, May 30th 2025 - 19:49 UTC

    El Al to fly between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires

    Milei and Netanyahu will sign the agreement on June 11

    Argentina's Ambassador to Israel, Axel Wahnish, confirmed Friday in a broadcast interview that the flag carrier El Al will start a direct service between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires to be agreed upon during President Javier Milei's next meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 11 when the South American leader travels to receive during a special ceremony at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) the Genesis Award, an accolade deemed tantamount to “the Jewish Nobel.”

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  • Friday, May 30th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine gov't announces “new” voluntary military service

    The main difference with the previously existing one is a change in the age bracket of candidates from 18-24 to 18-28 years

    Argentina's Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei announced Thursday the creation of a Voluntary Military Service program for people aged 18–28, managed by the Ministries of Defense and Human Capital. The program aims to instill values like discipline, effort, and patriotism while offering training in trades such as cooking, mechanics, and security, alongside opportunities to complete compulsory education. It seeks to enhance personal and professional development and strengthen defense capabilities.

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  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 11:14 UTC

    Argentina: Milei’s intelligence plan raises concerns over domestic surveillance

    The draft of the State Intelligence Secretariat does not specify who qualifies as a “manipulative actor,” raising concerns about potential targeting of journalists, social activists, and critics

    Argentina's government under President Javier Milei is under fire after the leak of a controversial National Intelligence Plan (PIN) that could lead to internal espionage targeting critics of his administration.

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  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    RFK, Jr., and Milei agree on creating an alternative to the WHO

    RFK Jr. insisted on the creation of an alternative international health system free of totalitarian impulses

    Argentina, under President Javier Milei, announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the first country in the region to do so, following the United States' exit under President Donald Trump.

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  • Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

    Presidents Orsi and Milei should meet in early July, Argentine ambassador says

    Orsi  and Milei have never met since the latter's March 1 inauguration

    Argentina's Ambassador to Uruguay, Alan Beraud, announced that Presidents Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay and Javier Milei of Argentina will meet at a Mercosur summit in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025, during the transfer of the Southern Common Market's (Mercosur) Pro Tempore Presidency.

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  • Saturday, May 24th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Milei declared persona non grata in Bariloche for his April 2 speech

    Milei's April 2 speech was deemed as supportive of the Islanders' self-determination

    The City Council of Bariloche in the Argentine province of Río Negro declared President Javier Milei “persona non grata” due to his April 2, 2025, speech, which was deem to be endorsing of the Falkland/Malvinas Islanders' self-determination and therefore detrimental to the country's sovereignty claim.

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  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Milei highlights Argentina's prosperous future

    “Argentina is very cheap and it will go up like a diver's fart,” assured Milei

    During his speech at the AmCham Summit 2025 in Buenos Aires, organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Javier Milei celebrated his party's recent electoral victory in the Autonomous City and promised that inflation would be eliminated by mid-2026.

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentine FM holds meeting with Pope Leo XIV

    Pope Leo XIV “said he wanted to come” to Argentina, Werthein explained

    Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein met Monday with Pope Leo XIV on his first official day as pontiff, discussing President Javier Milei's upcoming visit to the Vatican in the coming weeks.

  • Monday, May 19th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Buenos Aires City ruling party dealt major blow by Milei's LLA

    Spokesman Adorni (C) got over 30% of the vote

    Argentine Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni prevailed in Sunday's elections at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) swept former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana (PRO) to third place in the country's capital, where Federal Congresswoman Silvia Lospennato got only 15.93% of the vote.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Argentina: Indec says April's inflation stood at 2.8%

    Milei said Caputo was the best Economy Minister in history

    Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached 2.8% in April 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires, much to President Javier Milei's content and the bafflement of the population coping with an unmatching reality.

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