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Montevideo, November 8th 2025 - 10:16 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    No May Pact, but celebrations in Córdoba still on

    Milei is said to be looking ahead to the 2025 mid-term elections already

    Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed Monday upon his return from Spain that there will be no May Pact as he had planned because the so-called Omnibus Law -officially known as the Bases Law- has not yet been approved by the Senate.

  • Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Milei's words in Spain trigger new diplomatic conflict

    Spain wants an apology that is not going to happen, according to Spokesman Adorni

    Argentine President Javier Milei insisted on questioning Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife's clear sheet and triggered yet another diplomatic controversy for the South American country since he took office on Dec. 10, 2023.

  • Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:36 UTC

    Milei's deficient diplomacy triggers concurring responses

    Milei keeps steering Argentine into diplomatic conflicts owing to mere “ideological tantrums of the president,” Lousteau stressed

    The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell criticized Argentine President Javier Milei for his derogatory remarks in Madrid targetting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez and insisted that “attacks against relatives of political leaders have no place in our culture.” Borrell thus became just another voice condemning the South American leader's attitude.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 20:18 UTC

    Milei lands in Madrid, praises his administration's achievements

    During the weekend, Milei is also scheduled to hold encounters with Spanish businesspeople

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed Friday in Madrid after a refueling stopover in the Canary Islands, for a series of engagements, none including a member of the Spanish government or the royal house. Also aboard the ARG 01 aircraft was Presidential Secretary Karina Milei.

  • Friday, May 17th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

    Argentina's industrial activity keeps dropping

    The sharp drop can be partly explained by last year's “soybean” dollar boosting sales abroad

    Despite victorious announcements from President Javier Milei's government, industrial activity in Argentina fell for the tenth consecutive month amid a growing loss of purchasing power. Interannually, a 17.2% drop was recorded after March's 4.7% decline. In addition, the first quarter of 2024 showed a year-on-year 11.7% slide.

  • Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 19:08 UTC

    Argentina needs to solve its exchange rate problem, IMF spokeswoman says

    Milei's government will need to evolve to keep its successful plan going, Kozack warned

    International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spokeswoman Julie Kozack said that Argentina needed to lift the exchange rate ceiling if the government were to protect the country's Central Bank reserves. Kozack's remarks during a press conference came a day after Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo announced that the South American nation was on course to dollarization.

  • Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina getting ready to dollarize its economy, minister says

    Argentina still needs to terminate the “stocks” holding the parity between the local peso and the US dollar, Caputo explained

    Argentine Economy Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo said Wednesday that the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei had that the Government has “everything ready for dollarization.” The “recovery is very close,” he added as the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar bounced back after it became evident that the government would be unable to deliver on Milei's promise to have an agreement signed with the provincial governors by May 25.

  • Wednesday, May 15th 2024 - 16:58 UTC

    Milei celebrates inflation figures football-style

    Milei thanked Toto Caputo for the latest achievement

    Argentine President Javier Milei became overtly extrovert on social media Tuesday after the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced that April's monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) had stood at 8.8%. “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL...!!!!,” he wrote in football-fan mode. Meanwhile, Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni said inflation had “its death certificate signed.”

  • Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Man who threw bottle at Milei jailed for 3 and a half years

    The offender had a previous history of violence and was under the influence of alcohol during the attack

    A Buenos Aires court Monday validated a plea agreement with the prosecution whereby the man who threw a bottle at President Javier Milei's motorcade on inauguration day has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. In the incident, the perpetrator nearly missed the head of state's head and hit a security guard instead.

  • Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei and Lacalle Pou will meet eventually despite not sharing identical views, says Adorni

    Adorni represents the administration's views every morning during his press briefings

    Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni said in an interview with Montevideo's El País that Presidents Luis Lacalle Pou and Javier Milei had different points of view regarding the State's role in each country's economy. The official also addressed the delay in materializing an encounter between both heads of state despite the short geographical distance separating them.