Tag: Javier Milei

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  Milei denounces intimidating threats on social media

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei wrote Sunday on social media about intimidating messages and death threats he had been receiving. He showed drawings of himself, one of them captioned: “The noise will be the tomb of the regime.” Milei also questioned reporters “who joined the wave of violence.”

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

  No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

  

  Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.

• Friday, March 29th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Petro and AMLO describe Milei in not-quite-friendly words

  

  After derogatory remarks against them from Argentina's Javier Milei, Presidents Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico also had their say Thursday.

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Colombia expels Argentina's diplomatic mission over Milei statements against Petro

  

  Gustavo Petro ordered all of Argentina's diplomatic staff in Colombia expelled after derogatory remarks against him by fellow President Javier Milei during an interview with CNN. The Libertarian leader called him a “murderer, terrorist,” given his past as a M-19 guerrilla fighter. Colombia also withdrew its Ambassador from Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

  Power outages hit Argentine Embassy in Caracas after granting asylum to opposition leaders

  

  The Government of President Javier Milei denounced the power outage at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas after the Libertarian administration granted asylum to a group of Venezuelan nationals chased by the Nicolás Maduro regime.

• Monday, March 25th 2024 - 09:30 UTC

  Paraguayan president gets along with Milei, but not quite so with Alberto

  

  Paraguayan President Santigo Peña said during a TV show aired this weekend in Buenos Aires that he had a tough time dealing with former Argentine President Alberto Fernández but was pretty much on the same page with Javier Milei.

• Monday, March 25th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina commemorates 1976 coup under gov't prone to siding with the military

  

  Thousands of Argentines marched through Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo on Sunday to commemorate another anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup by the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla against the democratic government of María Estela Martínez de Perón.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2024 - 14:36 UTC

  The Economist, “After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing”

  

  “We are genuinely very satisfied,” declared President Javier Milei of Argentina on local radio, after inflation in February fell by more than expected, to 13%. That, however, is the monthly figure. Over the past year it has amounted to 276%—the highest in the world. Inflation of just 8% annually has rattled politics in richer countries.

• Friday, March 22nd 2024 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine VP against involving armed forces to fight drug gangs

  

  Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel spoke against involving the Armed Forces in the fight against crime and defended the need to increase the wages of Senators to cope with the country's rampant inflation. She made those remarks during her first TV interview since taking office on Dec. 10.

• Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 19:55 UTC

  Milei criticized for his choices for the Supreme Court

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei took heavy flak Thursday after signing a decree Wednesday whereby he nominated Buenos Aires City Federal Judge Ariel Lijo to fill the Supreme Court (CSJN) vacancy left by Justice Elena Highton de Nolasco when she retired in 2021. The head of state also singled out Manuel García-Mansilla to take over from sitting Justice Juan Carlos Maqueda who will be reaching the mandatory retirement age later this year.