Tag: Javier Milei

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

  Argentina: Milei announces mega reform emergency package

  

  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.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Buenos Aires: Two arrested in first mass rally against the government

  

  Two people were arrested Wednesday in Buenos Aires as leftwing groups staged a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo to commemorate another anniversary of the 2001 killings of protesters during the uprising against then-President Fernando de la Rúa who eventually resigned.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Pot-banging protests surge after Milei's announcement

  

  Many Argentines took to the streets or their balconies Wednesday evening banging pots and pans in rejection of President Javier Milei's emergency decree DNU providing for the deregulation of the country's economy.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will go on national television on Wednesday to explain the scope of his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) to deregulate the economy with more than 600 provisions.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Unprecedented storm: Roof collapses in Bahía Blanca killing 13

  

  At least 13 people were reported dead in the city port of Bahía Blanca some 690 kilometers south of the Argentine capital and three others elsewhere in the province of Buenos Aires after Sunday's storms. Parts of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), where one victim was reported, and other provinces were left without electricity for hours.

• Monday, December 18th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Milei booed at Boca Juniors elections for supporting Macri

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei was jeered and called names Sunday when he cast his vote for Andrés Ibarra for president of Club Atlético Boca Juniors at the iconic Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires before leaving for the storm-hit Bahía Blanca.

• Saturday, December 16th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

  IDB will continue to support Argentina

  

  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Ilan Goldfajn said his entity “has supported Argentina for many years and decades and will continue to” do so after President Javier Milei's administration adopted a series of measures he found to be “strong.”

• Saturday, December 16th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  Argentina: Milei says burden on private sector is “transitory”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Friday released a live broadcast through his Instagram account explaining that “The effort that falls on the private sector is transitory.” The head of state added his administration was “focused on avoiding hyperinflation.”

• Saturday, December 16th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Presidential Spokesman warns Argentina going through hyperinflation

  

  Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni Friday confirmed his country was going through hyperinflation since the 1% daily rate mentioned earlier this week by Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo would result in a 3,678% per annum.

• Friday, December 15th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina: Inflation is 1% daily, Caputo says

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo said Thursday that inflation in his country stood already at 1% per day and insisted that measures were being taken to get out of this “financial catastrophe” through a classic orthodox stabilization plan. “We are in that process, but we are very confident,” he stressed.