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Montevideo, December 8th 2025 - 17:21 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentina, only country in the region with a contracting economy

    More and more Argentines keep falling daily into poverty or indigence

    Less than a year into the government of Libertarian President Javier Milei, Argentina will be the only country in the region with negative growth in 2024, according to projections by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ECLAC, and BBVA, which forecast a 3.2% contraction of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in South America's second-largest economy.

  • Monday, September 2nd 2024 - 11:40 UTC

    Milei vetoes pensions increase but faces Congress' reprisal

    Milei cited the Senate's Rulebook requirement that every bill includes in its foundations its source of financing

    Argentine President Javier Milei vetoed in its entirety Bill 27.756 providing for an increase in the wages of senior citizens and pensioners. The measure became effective after appearing in Monday's issue of the Official Gazette.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei announces documentary about his path to Casa Rosada

    The six-episode production will be broadcast through X

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday launched a film series on his fast political career to be made available through the social media platform X. The docuseries still has no premiere date and will be directed by Casa Rosada's regisseur Santiago Oría. The production will be titled “From Zero to President. The Phenomenon that Captivates the World.”

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentina: Congresswoman Arrieta leaves LLA bloc – ruling party feebler?

    Menem fears that discrepancies within LLA's bloc fuels destabilizing rumors

    Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta announced Tuesday that she was resigning from La Libertad Avanza's bloc to form her one-seat force in the Lower House. After being involved in a series of incidents regarding the visit of a group of lawmakers to incarcerated human rights violators during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Arrieta claimed that “I cannot be part of a party where I am not respected.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 23:13 UTC

    The Economist: Javier Milei's military splurge; many Argentines are asking why

    On 9th July, Argentina's national day president Milei was invited to the lead tank of the grand parade downtown Buenos Aires

    Self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalists ought to be skeptical of large standing armies. President Javier Milei of Argentina seems to relish them. Even as he tightens the government purse, he has committed to raising defense spending from 0.5% of gdp to 2% over the next eight years. He vows to “restore the prestige” of the army and transform it into a hi-tech force.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    Consumption plunges in Argentina despite Milei's optimism

    Scientia's document also projects declines ranging from 18% to 20% once the figures for the July 29-Aug. 4 week are released

    Consumption in Argentina has dropped below the pandemic and 2001 levels as the South American country's economy continues its erratic behavior under Libertarian President Javier Milei, whose administration depicts a different scenario. A survey conducted by the pollsters Scentia showed the loss of purchasing power and the recession on mass consumption.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Milei outlines his dollarization plan which will add other currencies

    “At some point, there are going to be so many dollars in the economy that, maybe that day, we will be able to close the Central Bank,” Milei explained

    During his appearance at the Expo Real Estate event, Argentine President Javier Milei explained Thursday his currency competition plan and also delved into the matter of closing down the Central Bank, one of his main campaign promises. The head of state also stressed that thanks to the economic adjustment undertaken by his administration a debt rollover for part of 2025 had been guaranteed.

  • Wednesday, August 14th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Milei and Yuyito kiss during theatrical performance

    Milei has made official his affair with the entertainer 11 years his senior

    Argentine President Javier Milei was escorted by entertainer Amalia “Yuyito” González during his appearance at a theatrical performance at the Libertad Palace in Buenos Aires as the Libertarian Government launched its trial by jury initiative.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei tours Vaca Muerta and Chile with a focus on energy investments

    We have the second-largest shale oil reserves in the world and we can be an exporting power, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei resumed his mileage accruing habit Thursday with a trip to Vaca Muerta in the Patagonian province of Neuquén and later to Santiago, where he met with local businessmen but not with Gabriel Boric Font.