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Montevideo, April 22nd 2025 - 15:56 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 21:51 UTC

    Ramp handling company out, Aerolíneas Argentinas might follow suit

    No more blackmailing the government for Intercargo

    The Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots agreed not to stage any further strikes as long as wage negotiations with the Argentine government keep going on, pilots union leader
    Mateo Ferreira told reporters after Friday's meeting. “We are reassuring passengers that at least the pilots' union will not take measures of force,” he stressed. If no arrangement is reached, “a crisis procedure” would be set in motion, whereby “the arbitrator is the Labor Secretary,” he also explained.

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina's new FM sworn in under “the forces of heaven”

    Werthein will try to cut down the number of Ambassadors abroad as well as their wages

    Argentina's new Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein took his oath of office on the Torah on Monday. The choice of Jewish religious scripture was capitalized on by President Javier Milei, who made a few comments on the matter and told his new official that “the forces of heaven send you signs.”

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    Milei sacks Mondino for not siding with US against Cuba

    Milei was hoping to align Buenos Aires with Washington and Tel Aviv but Argentina's diplomatic team at the UN stuck to old policies

    Argentine President Javier Milei sacked Foreign Ministry Diana Mondino Wednesday after Argentina voted in line with most countries at the United Nations (UN) against the US trade embargo on Cuba in force since 1962. The 32nd consecutive non-binding resolution in the same regard was passed with 187 votes in favor, two against (USA and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova). Mondino will be replaced by the current ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Werthein.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands coast line surveyed by the Argentine navy during “Operation Cow Beach”

    Submarine Santiago del Estero

    Now that the Argentine president Javier Milei has made public a shopping list to equip the armed forces, such as the US manufactured F16 from Denmark for the Air Force, plus tanks, armored vehicles and modern warfare elements such as drones, rockets for the army, and also some surface vessels for the navy, and possibly Scorpane French/Spanish submarines, such as the navies of Brazil and Chile, it is interesting to recall an incident almost sixty years ago when a sea incursion to the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentine workers carry out major strike

    These strikes are “harming those who want to work,” Adorni argued

    Argentina's leading public workers labor union Association of State Workers (ATE) launched at noon Tuesday a 36-hour strike to protest against the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei's recent layoffs and spending cutbacks, in addition to demanding wage adjustments to cope with inflation. The measure is also fueled by a 24-hour stoppage affecting air, railroad, and underground services.

  • Thursday, October 24th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina to sack whoever used the “Falklands” in an official document

    Referring to the Malvinas as “Falkland” was a “malicious” and “serious” error, the Argentina authorities claimed

    Argentina's Defense Ministry will be sacking the person responsible for using the word “Falklands” on the Argentina.gob.ar website when it should have been “Malvinas.”

  • Tuesday, October 22nd 2024 - 09:13 UTC

    Milei reshapes Tax Bureau, blends it with Customs

    The move entails a 15% staff downsizing and a significant salary cut for the higher-ranking officials, explained Adorni

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei announced Monday that it was dissolving the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP), which is to be replaced by a simplified agency known as ARCA which will also assume Customs functions.

  • Monday, October 21st 2024 - 23:32 UTC

    Milei wants to put last nail in Peronism's coffin with CFK inside

    While Milei wants to sink Peronism, VP Villarruel meets with Peròn's widow and inaugurates a bust of her at the Senate

    Argentine President Javier Milei said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would like to be the one “to put the last nail in the coffin of Kirchnerism with Cristina inside.” By “Cristina” he meant two-time former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 09:35 UTC

    Indec: Argentina's wholesale inflation up 2% last month

    Milei said on X that his government was “taming” inflation

    Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released a study Thursday according to which wholesale prices went up only 2% last month, it was reported in Buenos Aires. President Javier Milei celebrated the news and praised Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo for it.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

    Argentina: College students rise against Libertarian budgetary constraints

    The protests include classes in the streets

    Last week's veto by President Javier Milei against the University Finance Bill, which survived a parliamentarian challenge, has nevertheless sparked a nationwide conflict between the Libertarian administration and student groups claiming that the tuition-free higher education that has been a pillar of social mobility in Argentina was at stake. Some outlets even defined the uprising as “Estudiantazo” as some classes were held in the streets as part of the surging protests.