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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 02:51 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 13:54 UTC

    Brazil and Argentina not so confrontational after all, Itamaraty/O'Globo report

    Milei’s VP, Victoria Villarruel, and economist Diana Mondino, and likely chancellor, have been making discreet contacts with the Brazilian embassy in Buenos Aires

    The show must continue, and despite all the theatrics, relations between the incoming government of Argentina's libertarian president Javier Milei and Brazil, (together with China), the leading trade partners, bilateral relations are less confrontational and more fluid than can be expected, so points out an analysis of the situation by O-Globo the leading media consortium from the state of Rio do Janeiro and with good political contacts in Itamaraty.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Falklands not mentioned during phone call between Milei and Cameron

    Cameron told Milei he was acquainted with Mick Jagger

    Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei held a telephone conversation Wednesday with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, during which topics such as former Conservative Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, and the Rolling Stones were reviewed with not a word on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, it was reported.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Transition in Argentina: Milei's vice-president met with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

    Beyond the ideological differences that separate them, the leader of La Libertad Avanza “respects the investiture” of the former president and current VP

    Amid Argentina's transition of power, outgoing Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reappeared Wednesday to meet with Victoria Villarruel, the running mate of President-elect Javier Milei, who will replace Kirchner on Dec. 10.

  • Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Javier Milei's team mistakes film director James Cameron for British Foreign Secretary

    The office of Argentina's President-elect, Javier Milei, committed a notable error in their daily briefing by mistakenly identifying the UK Foreign Secretary. Instead of referring to David Cameron, the office erroneously attributed the role to James Cameron, the renowned film director.

  • Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei and Alberto Fernández meet for two and a half hours

    “What I talked with him remains between him and me,” Fernández said in a post-meeting interview

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández finally met Tuesday with his elected successor the Libertarian Javier Milei to officially kick off the transition toward the Dec. 10 inauguration. “The meeting took place at the Olivos presidential residence to initiate the institutional transition process between the teams appointed by both in the different areas of government,” Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti wrote on social media.

  • Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:59 UTC

    Boric: Chile and Argentina are brotherly peoples

    “These political differences cannot cloud the fact that our integration between both countries is absolutely necessary,” said Boric

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font insisted that his country and Argentina were brotherly peoples and that despite his ideological differences with Javier Milei, his duty was to “continue promoting integration at the highest level.”

  • Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:50 UTC

    Chinese official warns Milei it would be a mistake to cut ties

    In the last debate, Milei said products not sold to China could be traded elsewhere or triangulated towards the Asian giant

    Chinese authorities congratulated Javier Milei on his victory in Sunday's runoff but warned it would be a step in the wrong direction for Argentina to cut ties with Beijing.

  • Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:47 UTC

    Milei to visit US and Israel before inauguration

    Milei will be visiting some rabbi friends

    Citing spiritual reasons and meetings with rabbi friends, Argentina's President-elect plans to visit the United States and Israel before taking office on Dec. 10, it was reported Monday in Buenos Aires. “I am sleepless, the international agenda is calling so we have to work”, said Javier Milei.

  • Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:28 UTC

    No more public radio, TV, and newsagency under Milei

    Aerolíneas will need to be competitive and not rely on State subsidies

    Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei announced Monday in a broadcast interview that he would privatize the state-run Public TV (TVP), National Radio, and the news service Télam because he did “not adhere to those practices of having a covert Ministry of Propaganda.” He also explained he had plans for the oil company YPF and flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas to no longer hinge financially on the national treasury.

  • Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    PM Sunak, Falklands sovereignty dispute is a “resolved issue” and “will not change”

    PM Sunak's spokesperson pointed out that “Argentina and UK as members of the G20 and with a prosperous relationship, must develop a solid and reproductive relationship”

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday extended his government's congratulations to the Argentine elected president Javier Milei on his Sunday's windfall victory, but also affirmed that the dispute over the Falklands-Malvinas Islands sovereignty is a “resolved issue”.