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Montevideo, January 30th 2025 - 14:52 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Wednesday, January 29th 2025 - 20:39 UTC

    Milei’s Davos speech triggers political and social uproar

    In his 30-minute speech, the Argentine president said he had a much bigger task than reforming the chronically crisis-ridden South American country.

    Argentine President Javier Milei generated a wave of criticism after his statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he linked homosexuality with pedophilia. His words triggered the call for an “anti-fascist” march, which is expected to be massive in Buenos Aires and other cities of the country

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  • Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina to build fence along Bolivian border

    Aguas Blancas is known to be particularly porous to uncontrolled traffic from Bolivia

    Authorities in the Argentine province of Salta called for tenders to build a “perimeter fence” 200 meters long and 2.5 meters high on the border with Bolivia along the Bermejo River between the Aguas Blancas bus terminal and the immigration checkpoint, in a move to keep irregular aliens and drugs from entering the country.

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  • Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:41 UTC

    Milei’s 2025 challenges: Between Argentina's mid-term elections and the IMF

    Javier Milei with his good friend Donald Trump

    By Alejandro Werner (*) - The author thanks Ignacio Albe, Olivier Blanchard, Martina Copelman, Joseph Gagnon, José de Gregorio, Patrick Honohan, Douglas Irwin, Maurice Obstfeld, and other PIIE colleagues for their comments and suggestions.

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  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 21:45 UTC

    Milei targets progressiveness during Davos speech

    “Wokeism” has “the manifest desire to destroy criticism and dissent,” Milei warned

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Thursday during his appearance before the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland) that “we must eliminate the virus of woke ideology” that has been subverting the Western civilization's values over the past few years. Milei likened this “aberrant ideology” to a “virus” and insisted it was “the cancer that must be removed” if the “golden age” was to prevail.

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  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 21:13 UTC

    Milei would have no qualms breaking up with Mercosur if need be for FTA with US

    Milei is willing to pay any price to drive along what he thinks is prosperity's road

    Argentine President Javier Milei said in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos (Switzerland) that if breaking up with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was a requirement to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, he would not hesitate to do it.

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  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:12 UTC

    Milei holds positive meeting with Georgieva

    “We are doing very well,” Milei posted on social media after his encounter with the IMF's Managing Director

    Argentine President Javier Milei and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva held a meeting Sunday in Washington DC ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration to discuss the economic situation in the South American country.

  • Saturday, January 18th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Villarruel in charge of Argentina's Executive due to Milei's trip

    Milei is to attend Trump's inauguration and the WEF in Davos, among other engagements

    Argentina Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni posted on X Friday that Vice President Victoria Villarruel was to be briefed shortly that she was to take over the Executive Branch given President Javier Milei's trip to Washington to attend Donald Trump's inauguration and to Davos for a World Economic Forum (WEF) convention, among other engagements.

  • Friday, January 17th 2025 - 08:57 UTC

    Argentina to blend Montevideo diplomatic missions into one

    The measure seeks to cut annual spending by about 2 million US dollars

    Argentine President Javier Milei's “chainsaw” policies reached the South American country's diplomatic efforts: After recalling Ambassador Martín García Moritán from Uruguay citing “service reasons,” Buenos Aires announced it would be unifying its presence in Montevideo under one single Ambassador who would also be representing the country before the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

  • Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Argentina recalls Ambassador in Montevideo due to “service reasons”

    García Moritán had been appointed in February last year under then-Foreign Minister Diana Mondino

    Ambassador Martín García Moritán has been removed from the Argentine mission in the Uruguayan capital and ordered back to Buenos Aires, according to Presidential Decree 29/2025 published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. The measure was adopted barely over a month before President-elect Yamandú Orsi's March 1 inauguration. The career diplomat had been appointed on Feb. 19, 2024.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:44 UTC

    IMF warns Milei about increasing poverty amid exchange rate controls

    Milei hopes things will get better after Trump's inauguration

    Despite approving Argentine President Javier Milei's management in a broad way, the International Monetary Fund suggested the South American country should pay more attention to exchange rate arrears and the increasing poverty.

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