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Montevideo, August 1st 2026 - 14:18 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 08:54 UTC

    Milei focuses on his domestic agenda after the Adorni reshuffle, forgoing a US trip

    Milei had already declined to attend the Mercosur summit in Asunción —where he was represented by Quirno— in order to remain in Buenos Aires and lead the swearing-in of his new cabinet chief

    Argentine President Javier Milei will prioritize his domestic agenda in the coming days and will not travel to the United States for that country's Independence Day celebrations on July 4, official sources confirmed. The decision comes amid a reshaping of his cabinet following the departure of his cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, and marks the second time in a matter of days that the president has set aside an international commitment to focus on domestic matters.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 08:32 UTC

    A regional shift to the right frames the wave of congratulations to Fujimori

    Argentine President Javier Milei was among the most emphatic. “I congratulate Keiko Fujimori on her historic victory in Peru. The Peruvian people join Colombia and have sent a clear message”

    The confirmation of right-wing Keiko Fujimori's victory in Peru's presidential runoff drew a wave of congratulations from leaders across the region, who framed the result within the shift to the right underway in several Latin American countries. With Fujimori's arrival in power, the right will add a new government, alongside those of Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay and El Salvador, and the recent victory of Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2026 - 08:27 UTC

    Argentina taps the local market to fund a $4.2 billion bondholder payment due July 9

    The strategy of Economy Minister Luis Caputo was aimed at obtaining foreign currency in the local market rather than turning to international credit markets, where rates for Argentina remain high

    Argentina's Economy Ministry on Monday completed the placement of the Bonar 2028 (AO28), a dollar-denominated bond under local law, raising most of the funds needed to face a maturity of around $4.2 billion with private debt holders due on July 9. In the second round of the auction, the Finance Secretariat awarded $100 million, thereby reaching the authorized cap of $2 billion for that instrument.

  • Monday, June 29th 2026 - 08:30 UTC

    Argentina's Pacific-pact bid would make it a trade partner of the UK, raising a Falklands dilemma

    Argentine FM Quirno's bid to join the CPTPP, a bloc the UK belongs to, revived questions over the Falklands, since a clause could extend the pact to the islands in the future.

    Argentina's request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has reopened a question over its sovereignty claim to the Falklands, since the United Kingdom is a full member of that agreement. If it goes ahead, it would be the first trade pact of this magnitude, since the 1982 war, in which Argentina would share partner status with London outside traditional multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organization.

  • Sunday, June 28th 2026 - 20:42 UTC

    Milei's government seeks to close a political crisis after cabinet chief Adorni resigns

    The scandal began in March, when it emerged that Adorni's wife had been part of the official delegation that traveled with Milei to the United States

    The resignation of Manuel Adorni as cabinet chief of the Argentine government represents an attempt by President Javier Milei to close a political crisis that dominated the public agenda for more than four months, though analysts warn that the impact on the government's credibility will persist as the judicial investigation into the former official's alleged illicit enrichment advances. Adorni, who denies any act of corruption, submitted his resignation on Saturday in a letter released on the social network X.

  • Thursday, June 18th 2026 - 07:43 UTC

    Milei reforms by decree the system for appointing Argentina's Supreme Court justices

    The government said the changes seek to “streamline” the procedure and avoid administrative “duplications,” and argued that citizen participation is maintained in the Senate

    Argentina's President Javier Milei reformed by decree the system for appointing Supreme Court justices: he eliminated a stage of citizen participation prior to the nomination and removed the recommendation to consider criteria of gender, specialty and regional-origin diversity. The measure, made official on Tuesday, was questioned by legal experts and judicial-sector organizations.

  • Sunday, June 14th 2026 - 20:32 UTC

    Adorni's admission deepens divisions in Milei's cabinet as the opposition seeks a censure vote

    According to reports, La Libertad Avanza figure Patricia Bullrich again questioned Adorni —she spoke of an “ethical omission”

    The admission by Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni that he kept undeclared savings deepened divisions within Javier Milei's government and accelerated an opposition attempt to remove him through a censure motion. Despite the controversy, Adorni remains at the head of the cabinet.

  • Sunday, June 14th 2026 - 12:35 UTC

    'Honduras Gate' audios linking Milei to a disinformation network stir controversy, and denials

    Hernández says Milei “is supporting with $350,000” a project that, according to that account, sought to set up a “news site” operated from the US; the audios also mention Benjamin Netanyahu

    A set of leaked audios, released in late April by left-leaning Spanish media outlets and dubbed “Honduras Gate,” has stirred political controversy in Latin America by alleging a regional disinformation network and naming Argentine President Javier Milei as one of its financiers. The recordings' authenticity is in dispute: the main figure named called them false, and the others mentioned denied or did not respond to the accusations.

  • Friday, June 12th 2026 - 06:11 UTC

    Argentina's Adorni reports 944 million pesos in assets, including the homes from the probe

    The document reports assets of those 944.6 million pesos and debts of 317.3 million (about $219,000), with a net worth of close to 627 million (about $434,000)

    Argentina's Cabinet Chief, Manuel Adorni, declared assets of 944,575,052 pesos —about $653,000 at the 1,446-peso exchange rate he used— in the sworn declaration for 2025 he filed before the Anti-Corruption Office. The filing, now public, for the first time incorporates the properties that had surfaced in the judicial investigation for alleged illicit enrichment.

  • Sunday, June 7th 2026 - 23:52 UTC

    Argentina seeks a trade pact that would link it with the UK for the first time since 1982

    “I handed over the formal letter of intent to join one of the broadest, most modern and dynamic trade agreements in the world,” Quirno said

    Argentina has applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a step that, if completed, would place it for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War in a trade agreement that also includes the United Kingdom. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced the decision during a tour of Europe and handed the formal letter of intent to New Zealand, the treaty's depositary.