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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 03:48 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

    Milei eyes plebiscite if DNU fails through Congress

    If the economic plan goes wrong, Argentina blows up, “but if nothing is done, it also explodes,” Milei reckoned

    Argentine President Javier Milei said he would call for a popular consultation if his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) issued last week fails through Congress.

  • Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Impending job losses to deepen Argentina's crisis in the short run

    Impending job losses to deepen Argentina's crisis in the short run

    The administration of President Javier Milei is planning not to renew the contracts of some 7,000 state workers, which would add to the hardships many Argentine families are going through amid deep reforms to recover from the country's current crisis, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Milei says Argentine opposition leaders are corrupt sadists

    The objections to his reforms are orchestrated by the opposition, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday called the opposition “corrupt” and “sadistic” as he defended his emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most aspects of the South American country's economy to recover from the ongoing crisis through fiscal adjustments and cuts in public spending.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 14:27 UTC

    Uruguayan President to insist on a more flexible Mercosur in his last full year

    With Milei “we will talk as soon as we can,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said on Friday during the inauguration of an intensive care unit in the department (province) of Cerro Largo that “we shall insist on Mercosur to get out of this corset and to be able to connect with the rest of the world.”

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 14:20 UTC

    Milei says Argentina was left in a “regrettable” situation

    Milei insisted those who opposed his DNU were the ones who would lose some privileges

    Argentine President Javier Milei said his country's situation was “regrettable.” He made those remarks Saturday evening during his appearance together with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich on a live TV show with 96-year-old hostess Mirtha Legrand.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei calls for extraordinary sessions of Congress

    This is what Milei had in mind when he said there was more coming up

    Argentine President Javier Milei issued a decree on Friday calling for extraordinary sessions of Congress between Dec. 26, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2024, to deal with urgent matters. The head of state said earlier this week that “the crisis requires immediate action.” According to the Constitution, during the legislative recess (from Dec. 1 to the last day of February), Congress can only deal with issues specified in the presidential decree calling for extraordinary sessions.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    No general strike yet against Milei's decree, labor leaders announce

    “We have to demand that the decree be rolled back,” said CGT leader Héctor Daer

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) announced a demonstration to be staged next Wednesday before the main Courthouse in Buenos Aires to protest against President Javier Milei's reforms through an emergency decree earlier this week.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Argentina makes payment to IMF through CAF loan

    Argentina is said to be looking at fewer surcharges from the IMF next year

    Less than two weeks into the term of President Javier Milei, Argentina Thursday made a payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) worth US$ 921 million thanks to a loan from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    Six protesters arrested in Argentine city of Córdoba

    Police launched teargas and fired rubber bullets against the cacerolazo

    At least six people were arrested Thursday by law enforcement officers in the Argentine city of Córdoba after clashes with protesters downtown as they marched against President Javier Milei's decree while other pot-banging demonstrations were staged in Buenos Aires and other cities nationwide such as Mar del Plata, Bariloche, Rosario, Luján, Tandil, Puerto Madryn, and Junín.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Milei announces mega reform emergency package

    Milei gave his 16-minute speech flanked by his entire cabinet

    Argentine President Javier Milei Wednesday announced in a recorded message broadcast at 9 pm -instead of at noon as originally scheduled- an emergency decree containing 366 measures to deregulate the economy, of which he only highlighted 30.