Tag: Javier Milei

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:52 UTC

  Argentina's vice-president says she is “extremely worried” about those who cannot make ends meet

  

  Argentina's vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, has again distanced herself from Javier Milei's government, voicing concern over unemployment and the financial difficulties facing households. “I am extremely worried about Argentines who today have no work or who cannot make ends meet,” she said at the opening of Expo Venado 2026, an agricultural fair in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe province.

• Sunday, August 16th 2026 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine household arrears reach 17.5% and the government rules out intervening

  

  Arrears on credit to individuals in Argentina reached 17.5% of total lending in June, according to a study by Universidad Austral and the consultancy Eco Go based on central bank data. Javier Milei's government has ruled out intervening and maintains the solution must come from the market.

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

  Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 10:43 UTC

  A year from the presidential vote, Argentina's parties begin to define alliances

  

  With little more than a year to go before Argentina's presidential elections of October 2027, the governing party and the main opposition force began this week to realign their positions. La Libertad Avanza, the party of President Javier Milei, resumed talks with former president Mauricio Macri's PRO, while the various currents of Peronism agreed a truce aimed at blocking the electoral reform the government is promoting.

• Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes property bill after dropping two key chapters

  

  Argentina's Senate approved in the early hours of Friday, by 37 votes to 33, the Inviolability of Private Property bill promoted by Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger, after the governing bloc withdrew the two chapters that drew the most resistance. The text now goes to the Chamber of Deputies.

• Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:43 UTC

  Milei promotes a summit of right-wing presidents outside existing regional bodies

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei is working to convene a summit of right-wing leaders from across the Americas outside existing multilateral organizations, though no date has been set. The initiative comes amid a series of trips that took him this week to Ecuador and Colombia.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 22:08 UTC

  Two months from the vote, Lula turns diplomatic crises into a sovereignty message

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enters the final stretch toward the October 4 elections with three open diplomatic fronts and a message centered on defending national sovereignty.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2026 - 21:55 UTC

  Brazil ties its ambassador's return to an end to Milei's insults

  

  Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said on Wednesday that the downgrading of diplomatic relations with Argentina to chargé d'affaires level will remain in place until Argentine President Javier Milei stops what he called repeated insults and attacks against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2026 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil downgrades ties with Argentina to chargé d'affaires level over Milei's remarks

  

  Brazil decided on Tuesday to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Argentina to the level of chargé d'affaires and to postpone indefinitely the return of its ambassador in Buenos Aires, Julio Glinternick Bitelli, following a fresh round of remarks by Argentine President Javier Milei against his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2026 - 06:21 UTC

  Around 140 vessels stranded at Argentine ports after government deregulation decree

  

  Around 140 vessels were waiting on Monday to enter or leave Argentine ports after maritime pilots stopped accepting new assignments in protest at a decree deregulating their profession. The figures come from industry sources; some reports put the number above 150.