Milei: From rockstar to beggar

It’s difficult to acknowledge that elections in Buenos Aires Province occurred less than a month ago and that national midterms are a mere four weeks out. It feels as if reality has... Read more »

Peso crisis drives mortgage rates to 15%, upending Milei agenda

Executives from Banco Nación were preparing to head to Wall Street, ready to start making the pitch for a bond sale that would bankroll mortgages back home in Argentina. It would have... Read more »

São Paulo governor emerges as leading successor to Bolsonaro

Even though he denies the claim, the name of São Paulo governor Tarcísio de Freitas continues to come up as a leading candidate to take Jair Bolsonaro’s place as the leader of Brazil’s... Read more »

‘We will keep fighting’: Thousands march in Buenos Aires after narco-linked triple femicide

Thousands of people marched on Saturday in the capital to protest last week’s horrific triple murder in Florencio Varela that authorities have linked to drug-trafficking. Demonstrators, led by the Ni Una Menos... Read more »

How many more rabbits can Milei pull out?

There is a local saying that goes: “Leave Argentina one month and everything seems to have changed. Leave for 20 years and everything seems to be just the same.” Never has that... Read more »

Milei gets a second chance

Until US President Donald Trump and his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent intervened, Argentina was in a death spiral that, had it continued for much longer, would in all probability have had quite... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: September 19 to 26

  MILEI’S BIG APPLE President Javier Milei’s trip to New York (formally to address the annual General Assembly of the United Nations but in real terms far more geared to rallying United... Read more »

Bessent puts US money at risk in US$20-billion Argentina backstop

The Donald Trump administration’s US$20-billion lifeline for Argentina leans on a Treasury fund that’s been successfully used to bail out troubled allies in the past – but it could still carry risks... Read more »

Meet Ali Akbar, Paris’ last newspaper hawker and local legend

Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, is known by everyone as he zigzags through the streets daily from café to café, shouting humorous headlines in the heart of the French... Read more »

Poverty fell to 31.6% in the first half of 2025, reports INDEC

Argentina’s poverty rate fell to 31.6 percent in the first of the year, according to the INDEC national statistics bureau – a drop of 6.5 points from the second half of 2024.... Read more »