Tag: Javier Milei

• Monday, January 26th 2026 - 10:13 UTC

  U.S. Treasury Secretary praises Milei and defends U.S. currency swap as bilateral alignment deepens

  

  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised Argentine President Javier Milei and defended the currency swap deal between the two countries, offering a mix of political and financial backing that the Trump administration frames as part of its broader Latin America strategy.

• Monday, January 26th 2026 - 03:27 UTC

  U.S. Air Force C-40 landing in Ushuaia fuels scrutiny of Argentina’s southern agenda

  

  A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-40 Clipper landed around midday Sunday at Ushuaia’s international airport — officially named “Ushuaia–‘Malvinas’ Argentinas” — an unusual arrival that drew immediate attention from local media and political observers in Tierra del Fuego.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - 23:02 UTC

  Argentina envoy asks French lawmakers to cover “Falklands” label on map during hearing

  

  Argentina’s ambassador to France, Ian Sielecki, halted the start of a hearing at France’s National Assembly and refused to speak while a map behind him displayed the Falklands/Malvinas as UK territory. Proceedings resumed only after a staff member covered the islands with a sticky note.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2026 - 01:51 UTC

  Argentina–Iran: diplomatic tensions after Quds Force is added to Argentina’s terrorism registry

  

  Iran warned it would deliver an “appropriate response” after the Argentine government designated the Quds Force—an external-operations unit within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards—as a “terrorist organization” and added it, along with 13 linked individuals, to Argentina’s Public Registry of Persons and Entities Connected to Terrorism and its Financing (RePET).

• Sunday, January 18th 2026 - 23:20 UTC

  With Milei present and Lula absent, Mercosur and EU sign landmark deal in Asunción

  

  The European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc signed their long-negotiated association and free trade agreement on Saturday in Paraguay, with Argentina’s President Javier Milei attending the ceremony and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva absent, represented instead by his foreign minister.

• Monday, January 12th 2026 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina's Embassy in Caracas to be placed under Italian protection

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pulled his country's diplomats from the building that was once Argentina's Embassy in Caracas, but which had been placed under Brasilia's care when Javier Milei severed all ties with the Nicolás Maduro totalitarian regime.

• Thursday, January 8th 2026 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina and UK confirm cooperation in combating international crime and border threats

  

  Argentina and UK have coincided in strengthening cooperation in combating international crime, border threats caused by massive immigration and other related illegal activities. This was the result of a recent meeting between Argentine National Security minister Alejandra Monteoliva and British ambassador in Buenos Aires David Cairns.

• Monday, January 5th 2026 - 10:03 UTC

  Argentina's FM champions no joint Celac document condemning Maduro's arrest

  

  Argentina's President Javier Milei and Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno reportedly played a key role Sunday in barring a joint statement from all members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) objecting to Washington's operation in Caracas to abduct Nicolás Maduro.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2026 - 08:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires updates advisory against traveling to Venezuela

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry on Friday updated a travel advisory warning against visiting Venezuela, given the growing number of “arbitrary detentions” under the Chavista regime of Nicolás Maduro.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2026 - 08:24 UTC

  Europeans are all Peronists now, where are the leaders willing to make hard choices?

  

  By Cristina Martinez (*) - European voters increasingly resemble their Argentinian counterparts, who, until recently, believed the unsustainable promises offered by Peronist politicians. To avoid the economic shock therapy that has befallen Argentina, Europe’s leaders must be willing to make hard choices, and electorates must be willing to reward them for it.