Milei ally under pressure over alleged overpricing at nuclear plants

A close adviser to President Javier Milei is at the centre of an escalating internal and judicial dispute over alleged irregularities at Argentina’s state-owned nuclear operator. Demian Reidel, president of Nucleoeléctrica Argentina... Read more »

‘Davos of Latin America’ tests Lula’s regional clout

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to power vowing to revive South American political and economic unity. A regional event this week shows he’s now fighting to maintain clout in his... Read more »

No pills for leaders | Buenos Aires Times

Highlighting in 2013 the evident behaviours and opinions expressed by the then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine physician and journalist Nelson Castro aptly warned us about the “Hubris Syndrome.” This syndrome is... Read more »

Milei spurns Techint billionaire Rocca as Indian firm wins pipeline bid

A flagship pipeline project championed by Javier Milei’s administration chose a foreign supplier over a local giant run by one of Argentina’s richest men in a test of the President’s free-market vision... Read more »

Argentina scraps film classification regime after 40 years, adopts US norms

No more “ATP” films or over-16s – Argentina’s film classification system has just been changed. Decree 50/2026, published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette and signed by President Javier Milei and Cabinet... Read more »

Only Trump superfans come onboard for ‘Board of Peace’ signing in Davos

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier.... Read more »

Argentina intervenes at Ushuaia port amid funds misuse probe

Argentina’s government has ordered a 12-month administrative intervention at the Port of Ushuaia, citing financial irregularities and serious shortcomings in port infrastructure. The National Agency for Ports and Navigation (ANPyN) suspended the... Read more »

Trump attempts to pivot in face of Minneapolis killing backlash

US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a... Read more »

​​Ideology over technique – Milei government’s banned glossary

At times it seems like an anecdote, an exaggeration from social networks, an administrative misunderstanding. But no – in Javier Milei’s Argentina, there are words which no longer exist within the state’s... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: January 16 to 23

  ALPINE MILEI President Javier Milei’s third address to the World Economic Forum in Davos was also his most moderate, toning down his previous anti-woke harangues to defend the values of Western... Read more »