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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 14:52 UTC

Tag: Javier Milei

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 16:50 UTC

    Lacalle Pou urges Mercosur unity, emphasizes importance of Milei's participation

    Lacalle Pou underscored the importance of Milei's participation in Mercosur, noting his absence from the summit.

    During the Summit of Mercosur Heads of State and Associate Members, President Luis Lacalle Pou delivered a compelling speech emphasizing the significance of Mercosur and advocating for greater openness within the bloc. Uruguay is set to assume the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur, and Lacalle Pou used this opportunity to address pressing regional issues and international trade agreements, particularly focusing on the recent political changes in Argentina.

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 13:59 UTC

    Argentina: Bases Law enacted as a prelude to the so-called “May Pact”

    Argentine President Javier Milei enacted this weekend the most encompassing Bases Law granting the Government most of the tools it claims to need to rescue the country from her plight as the Libertarian Administration fine-tuned the last details for the so-called “May Pact” to be signd in Tucumán on the Eve of the Independence Day celebrations.

  • Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:30 UTC

    Milei attends conservative gathering with the Bolsonaros

    The Argentine president is due back in his country Monday, thus skipping the Mercosur Summit in Asunción

    Instead of attending Monday's Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Argentine President Javier Milei chose to spend the weekend in southern Brazil with his friends the Bolsonaros, including the former head of state Jair, with whom he watched their national team eliminated from the Copa America by Uruguay on penalties on Saturday.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Argentina: No love lost between Macri and Bullrich

    Bullrichists are not leaving the PRO but rather preparing for next year's primaries against the Macrists

    There seems to be no love lost between former Argentine President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich after Thursday's events at the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) Party Assembly the latter was supposed to chair but was sidelined. The rift between Macri and Bullrich has been going on for months, it was also reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Argentines fairing worse off under Milei, study finds

    Having a job does not mean getting out of poverty in Argentina

    Studies published this week corroborate that Argentines are fairing worse off under President Javier Milei, with people sinking into poverty despite having formal jobs which showed in a dwindling consumption of red meat, among other items, in a country that used to top the world's lists.

  • Friday, July 5th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Milei creates Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State

    Presidential Advisor Sturzenegger has been chosen for the new position

    The Government of Argentina announced Thursday the creation of a Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State to be headed by Economist and former Central Bank (BCRA) President Federico Sturzenegger, who will be sworn in Friday.

  • Tuesday, July 2nd 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Labour's emphatic NO to any Falklands sovereignty talks with Argentina

    Lammy (right) who is of Guiana origin, underlined the interest of a government headed by Labor leader Keir Starmer of closer relations with the Caribbean and South America.

    The United Kingdom Labour's foreign affairs spokesperson David Lammy replied with an emphatic NO, when asked if a British government led by the Labour party would be prepared to sit and discuss Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty with Argentine president Javier Milei.

  • Monday, July 1st 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Milei not attending Mercosur Summit to dodge Lula faceoff

    Milei insisted he would not recant on his derogatory remarks against Lula out of sheer political correctness

    Argentine President Javier Milei will not be traveling to Asunción for the upcoming Mercosur Summit in the Paraguayan capital on July 8 in a move to avoid meeting face-to-face with his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he dubbed a “corrupt Communist” during his campaign last year and who insists an apology is in order. Last week the Argentine leader claimed there was nothing to be sorry for and that he would not go back on telling the truth. Foreign Minister Diana Mondino will represent Milei at the regional bloc's gathering.

  • Monday, July 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Team Falklands and President Milei eclectic foreign policy

    President Milei with his close friend/mentor and ambassador in Israel, Axel Wahnish during a visit to the Whaling Wall in Jerusalem .

    Team Falklands, which recently visited the Caribbean, United States, and United Nations in New York and Canada felt they came across a new attitude towards peoples' right to self-determination, mostly privately, which anyhow did not prevent overwhelming support for Argentina's colonial claim over the Falkland Islands at the C24 meeting, or a repeat of such situation at the Organization of American States, OAS, annual assembly, held in Paraguay.

  • Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:35 UTC

    CFK: The Libertarians' zero deficit is a fabrication

    Milei “lives in a world that no longer exists,” CFK argued

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015 / CFK) said during an interview on the internet streaming channel Gelatina outside mainstream media that the Liberal administration's “fiscal surplus is increasingly trumped up.”