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Montevideo, September 5th 2025 - 06:52 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 21:04 UTC

    Milei confirms Argentina's Embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem

    Milei also recalled the two antisemitic terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday during his speech before the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that the South American country would be relocating its Embassy to West Jerusalem in 2026. The first Argentine president ever to address the Knesset, Milei condemned the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas and demanded the release of all Argentine hostages.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

    Milei's presence at an event focused on environmental issues came as a surprise

    Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:35 UTC

    Milei lands in Israel and prays at the Wailing Wall

    Milei will stay in Israel for a few days to receive an accolade and sign a key understanding with Netanyahu

    After arriving in Israel on Monday, Argentine President Javier Milei's first activity was to pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, alongside his Presidential Secretary and sister Karina Milei, Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Argentine Ambassador to Tel Aviv Axel Wahnish, and Israel's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Eyal Sela.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:06 UTC

    Uruguayan version of Milei's LLA launched

    Uruguay is dying because of collectivist ideologies, Quintana argued

    Little-known Uruguayan politician Nicolás Quintana Monday presided over the launch of the local version of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Argentine President Javier Milei's party, which now has its own version across the River Plate.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei boasts his government's achievements in Madrid

    “By 2026, inflation in Argentina will be a thing of the past,” Milei said in Madrid

    President Javier Milei told the Madrid Economic Forum this weekend that his government had overreached his campaign goals with a “brutal adjustment” that eliminated the country's fiscal deficit, making Argentina one of five countries worldwide not in the red.

  • Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Can Milei be arrested when he lands in Spain later this month?

    Egío insisted Milei should be arrested “as soon as he arrives at the airport, that they arrest Javier Milei, until he returns everything he has stolen”

    Spanish Congressman Víctor Egío of Podemos has called for the arrest of Argentine President Javier Milei when he lands in Madrid later this month to attend an event hosted by his like-minded rightwing party Vox. The Libertarian leader is scheduled to stopover there on his way back to Buenos Aires from an official tour to Rome, Paris, and Tel Aviv to meet local authorities and Pope Leo XIV.

  • Friday, May 30th 2025 - 19:49 UTC

    El Al to fly between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires

    Milei and Netanyahu will sign the agreement on June 11

    Argentina's Ambassador to Israel, Axel Wahnish, confirmed Friday in a broadcast interview that the flag carrier El Al will start a direct service between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires to be agreed upon during President Javier Milei's next meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 11 when the South American leader travels to receive during a special ceremony at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) the Genesis Award, an accolade deemed tantamount to “the Jewish Nobel.”

  • Friday, May 30th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine gov't announces “new” voluntary military service

    The main difference with the previously existing one is a change in the age bracket of candidates from 18-24 to 18-28 years

    Argentina's Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei announced Thursday the creation of a Voluntary Military Service program for people aged 18–28, managed by the Ministries of Defense and Human Capital. The program aims to instill values like discipline, effort, and patriotism while offering training in trades such as cooking, mechanics, and security, alongside opportunities to complete compulsory education. It seeks to enhance personal and professional development and strengthen defense capabilities.

  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 11:14 UTC

    Argentina: Milei’s intelligence plan raises concerns over domestic surveillance

    The draft of the State Intelligence Secretariat does not specify who qualifies as a “manipulative actor,” raising concerns about potential targeting of journalists, social activists, and critics

    Argentina's government under President Javier Milei is under fire after the leak of a controversial National Intelligence Plan (PIN) that could lead to internal espionage targeting critics of his administration.

  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    RFK, Jr., and Milei agree on creating an alternative to the WHO

    RFK Jr. insisted on the creation of an alternative international health system free of totalitarian impulses

    Argentina, under President Javier Milei, announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the first country in the region to do so, following the United States' exit under President Donald Trump.