Argentina formally backs Rafael Grossi’s candidacy for UN secretary general

Argentina’s government has formalised its support for the candidacy of diplomat Rafael Grossi for the post of United Nations secretary-general.  Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced the government’s support for Grossi on Wednesday... Read more »

Rafael Mariano Grossi: Renewing the promise – a United Nations that works

The United Nations stands at an inflection point. The international system is under strain, fractured by war, inequality and eroding trust. Yet, 80 years after its founding, no-one has abandoned their belief... Read more »

Adapt or die: Latin America’s response to Trump

Latin America has navigated a minefield of economic and military coercion since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Some leaders have fought back, some acquiesced. Some played possum. No country was... Read more »

Court merges Loan Peña casefiles, paving way for 17 defendants to stand trial

The Federal Oral Court of Corrientes Province has ordered the consolidation of the two files relating to the unsolved disappearance of five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña and scheduled the case’s first preliminary hearing... Read more »

MercadoLibre tries to woo Brazil’s online shoppers as Amazon, Shein close in

MercadoLibre Inc has long dominated the online-shopping market in Latin America, but this holiday season, it finds itself in a fight to fend off rivals from both ends of the Pacific Ocean.... Read more »

Milei cutbacks sends Buenos Aires’ railways back to 1990s

Ever since President Javier Milei arrived at the Casa Rosada, the railway system of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area has become a postcard of fiscal adjustment and institutional uncertainty.  In today’s Argentina,... Read more »

Traders hunt for next Argentina as Trump’s sway shapes bets

Emerging-market money managers are zeroing in on Latin America for their next big trade as a wave of upcoming elections could redraw the region’s political map, potentially aligning several countries more closely... Read more »

UCR enters a critical moment with the party’s future at stake

Friday, December 12, will not just be any old day for the Unión Cívica Radical, one of Argentina’s historic political parties. On that day the UCR National Committee authorities, chaired by Martín... Read more »

Beautiful game, baffling system: Argentina’s impossible league system

Argentine football is a maze that even the many compatriots of Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi struggle to navigate. It is the sport that binds a polarised nation wrestling with deep economic... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: November 14 to 21

  ALBERTO CLOSE TO TRIAL The City Federal Appeals Court has confirmed the trial of ex-president Alberto Fernández for the irregular allocation of the insurance contracts of state agencies during his presidency,... Read more »