UK Trade Minister visiting Brazil and Argentina — MercoPress

UK Trade Minister visiting Brazil and Argentina Thursday, September 18th 2025 – 13:50 UTC Bryant will also engage with leading Latin American investors to promote the UK as a destination... Read more »

Central Bank defends peso as Milei faces setbacks

Argentina’s Central Bank stepped into the market to prop up the peso for the first time since it implemented a trading band in April, adding to a growing list of setbacks for... Read more »

Milei highlights contrast between Argentina’s decline and Paraguay’s progress — MercoPress

Milei highlights contrast between Argentina’s decline and Paraguay’s progress Wednesday, September 17th 2025 – 20:04 UTC “I can’t help but think about what my country can learn from” Paraguay, Milei... Read more »

Milei moves forward with privatisation of Nucleoeléctrica Argentina

Argentina’s government is kicking off the partial privatisation of state-owned Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA, operator of the country’s three nuclear power plants: Atucha I, Atucha II and Embalse. The plan, announced Tuesday, consists... Read more »

Milei rejects ‘moderate option’ as he hails Charlie Kirk at CPAC Paraguay

President Javier Milei once again paid tribute Monday to murdered United States conservative activist Charlie Kirk, warning against “third way” options in what he described as a battle between the right and... Read more »

Race for Carrefour’s business in Argentina heats up

French supermarket chain Carrefour announced several months ago that it would sell its business in Argentina – and the race to acquire the giant is heating up.  The deadline for first-round offers... Read more »

Private-sector employment dropped in July, dismissal rate rises

Recorded private-sector employment in Argentina fell in July in the monthly and year-to-year, while the dismissal rate reached its highest level of the year so far. The data, which can be found... Read more »

Budget bill speech: Milei promises ‘worst is over,’ asks voters to hold firm

President Javier Milei told Argentines that “the worst is over” on Monday as he used a speech unveiling aspects of his government’s 2026 Budget bill to make a pre-midterm election pitch to... Read more »

Meet the man who wants to run Latin America’s most valuable company like a start-up

Ariel Szarfsztejn didn’t just step into the spotlight. He leaped.  The incoming chief executive officer of e-commerce and fintech behemoth MercadoLibre Inc bounded onto a Mexico City stage that was aglow in... Read more »

Bolsonaro conviction ‘not a witch hunt,’ Lula tells Trump in NYT op-ed

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pushed back against harsh criticism from the United States following the conviction this week of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro on coup charges. In his... Read more »