Tag: Javier Milei

• Friday, September 4th 2026 - 07:21 UTC

  Milei announces sanctions against oil firms operating off the Falklands without Argentine approval

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced on Thursday, in a televised national address, sanctions against companies taking part in hydrocarbon development off the Falklands without Argentine authorization, along with the construction of a naval base in Tierra del Fuego, at the country's southern tip. The message, recorded at the Casa Rosada alongside his full cabinet, raised tensions with the United Kingdom at a moment when Washington has cast doubt on its traditional neutrality in the dispute.

• Friday, September 4th 2026 - 05:48 UTC

  “We are watching”: Argentine intelligence posts message on Falklands after Milei address

  

  Argentina's State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) published a satellite image of the Falklands in the early hours of Friday accompanied by the phrase “we are watching,” hours after President Javier Milei announced in a televised national address sanctions against companies operating around the archipelago without Argentine authorization and the construction of a naval base in Tierra del Fuego.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2026 - 17:50 UTC

  Argentine analysts rule out a real shift by Washington on the Falklands

  

  Argentine specialists in international affairs consulted this week agree that Donald Trump's statement about a possible review of the US position on the Falklands responds to pressure on London rather than to any substantive change on sovereignty over the archipelago.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2026 - 17:38 UTC

  Trump hints he would not back the UK and doubts its “capacity” to retake the Falklands

  

  US President Donald Trump has suggested his country would not come to Britain's aid in a possible conflict with Argentina over the Falklands, linking that position to the lack of British support in Washington's war with Iran.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2026 - 21:22 UTC

  China's embassy accuses a senior Argentine official of spreading “rumours” about the Nepal flood

  

  China's embassy in Buenos Aires has accused an official in Javier Milei's government of spreading “malicious rumours” and seeking to “stain the international image” of the Asian country, after he attributed to a Chinese state company responsibility for the flood that devastated the border corridor between Nepal and Tibet on August 26.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2026 - 07:50 UTC

  The UK dismisses Trump's remarks and reaffirms its sovereignty over the Falklands

  

  The British government on Tuesday dismissed US President Donald Trump's remarks about a possible review of Washington's position on the Falklands, and reiterated its commitment to the archipelago's status.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 17:28 UTC

  Milei announces a national address on Thursday over the Falklands claim

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced on Tuesday that he will address the nation on Thursday evening to set out the state of the sovereignty claim over the Falklands, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was reviewing his country's position on the archipelago.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil

  

  A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.

• Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:26 UTC

  Milei links Lula to the case of the Argentine former adviser detained in Bolivia

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei has attributed the criminal case against his former adviser Fernando Cerimedo, detained in Bolivia over an attempted femicide, to a regional plot in which he included Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former Bolivian president Evo Morales and Argentine lawmaker Marcela Pagano. He offered no evidence to support the claim.

• Sunday, August 23rd 2026 - 22:41 UTC

  Argentina votes this week on the reform barring the central bank from funding the Treasury

  

  Argentina's Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday debate the reform of the central bank's charter promoted by Javier Milei's government, which bars the monetary authority from financing the fiscal deficit through money creation and restores preservation of the value of the currency as its sole objective.