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Montevideo, December 30th 2024 - 14:43 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Saturday, December 21st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Indec says Argentina's economy contracted 2.7% through October

    Milei says the recession is over

    A report released Friday by Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) showed that the country's economic activity fell by 0.7% in October for an accumulated 2.7% interannual contraction in the first ten months of 2024, driven particularly by fishing (-49.9%) and construction (-14.5%) amid President Javier Milei's austerity plans which included halting all public works.

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  • Saturday, December 21st 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Milei relaunches Argentina's nuclear energy plan

    “We have the obligation to think big,” Milei insisted

    During a ceremony at Casa Rosada, Argentine President Javier Milei Friday launched his government's Nuclear Plan, which included the creation of an Argentine Nuclear Council, among other measures. “Nuclear energy will have its triumphant return,” insisted Milei, who also linked these projects to Artificial Intelligence's development. “We have the obligation to think big,” Milei also pointed out.

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  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    Number of Argentines migrating to Uruguay on the rise

    Despite Milei's achievements against inflation, recession in Argentina remains critical

    According to data released Monday in Montevideo, the number of Argentines seeking to start anew in Uruguay in the first year under President Javier Milei has more than doubled. After Argentine migration to Uruguay increased by 64% reaching 3,639 applications in less than one year, local authorities are beginning to ponder its possible impact on the country's demographics and social structure.

  • Monday, December 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Milei: “Taxes are theft”

    Milei insisted Meloni was a very courageous woman

    Argentine President Javier Milei said this weekend in an interview with the Italian TV Quarta Repubblica to be aired Monday that taxes “are theft.” The South American leader also insisted that “public spending cuts are not an unpopular measure.” Milei spent the weekend in Rome where he had a meeting with Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and participated in other business and political engagements.

  • Saturday, December 14th 2024 - 09:44 UTC

    Milei granted Italian citizenship in meeting with Meloni

    It was the sixth encounter between Milei and Meloni in barely over a year

    Argentine President Javier Milei Friday met with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome's Palazzo Chigi. It was their sixth encounter since the Libertarian's inauguration barely over a year ago. In a radio interview Friday, Milei said he and Meloni were friends before coming to power.

  • Friday, December 13th 2024 - 22:02 UTC

    Senator Kueider's expulsion sparks new controversy in Argentina

    “Until they do not transfer power to me, I am vice president,” Villarruel wrote on X

    Argentine President Javier Milei insisted from Italy that Thursday's session during which Senator Edgardo Kueider was expelled from the Upper House after being arrested in Paraguay with US$ 200,000 of undeclared cash was not valid because it was chaired by Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who, at that time, was in charge of the Executive. Other analysts shared that view.

  • Friday, December 13th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Milei off to Italy once again this year

    It will be Milei's sixth official encounter with Meloni

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday resumed his mileage accruing spree after departing for Rome to meet with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, among other engagements.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 20:54 UTC

    Trump picks successful Fla. physician for BA Embassy

    The Cuba-born Lamelas has been full of praise for Argentine President Milei

    US President-elect Donald J. Trump chose Peter Lamelas for the position of Ambassador in Buenos Aires during his administration to be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025. The Cuban-born physician has already met President Javier Milei.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei reviews his first year in office

    Milei said his reform of the State is much stronger than the one under Carlos Menem in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei reviewed his first year in office, during which he did manage to slow down inflation, albeit at a cost. “I want to thank the ordinary Argentines who were treated as second-class citizens for decades,” he said during his broadcast message.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentine gov't repeals ancestral land ownership claims in Patagonia

    The previous measures prevented “the free exercise of productive and recreational activities on the lands involved,” Milei's Decree underlined

    Indigenous communities in Argentine Patagonia voiced their rejection of the Federal Government's Decree 1083/2024 signed Tuesday repealing the territorial emergency in the region which entitled them to claim ancestral land ownership. “It will bring consequences that everyone will regret,” a Mapuche group warned.

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