Milei issues flurry of vetoes, ramps up conflict with health, education sectors

President Javier Milei has controversially vetoed laws that would boost funding for public universities and declare a paediatric emergency, with Garrahan Children’s Hospital in the forefront, setting up a fresh confrontation with... Read more »

Flight carrying Argentines deported from US lands in Buenos Aires

A chartered flight carrying 17 Argentines deported from the United States landed at Ezeiza International Airport in the early hours of Thursday morning, after stopovers in Colombia and Brazil. The Boeing 767-300,... Read more »

Uruguay’s finance minister shuns chainsaw for modest tax hikes

Uruguay’s new left-wing government plans to lower the budget deficit through tax increases early in its term to avoid politically contentious spending cuts or additional levies later on, according to Finance Minister... Read more »

Argentina posts strong debt auction after local vote fuelled rout

Argentina refinanced almost all of its upcoming local maturities in a debt auction Wednesday, a reprieve for President Javier Milei after his party lost a local election by a landslide Sunday. Milei’s... Read more »

Kicillof fuels investor fear after Milei’s big loss

Buried underneath the headlines trumpeting the lopsided electoral defeat suffered by President Javier Milei’s party this weekend was a development potentially even more troubling for investors in Argentina: the re-emergence of Axel... Read more »

Kicillof emerges as challenger to Milei after big win

He is the antithesis of Javier Milei: he defends a strong state, enjoys politics and presents himself as an ordinary man of the people. Peronist leader Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires... Read more »

Milei’s ‘boss’ becomes liability after brutal loss in Argentina

A humiliating election defeat is forcing President Javier Milei to face up to a series of political miscalculations – chief among them, his reliance on his beloved sister. The President’s libertarian party got... Read more »

Morgan Stanley’s flip-flop shows speed of crisis ensnaring Milei

It took less than a week – and a landslide defeat for free-market reformer Javier Milei – to make Morgan Stanley abandon its bullish call on Argentina.  The Wall Street bank, alongside rivals including... Read more »

BRICS leaders denounce protectionism, tariff ‘blackmail’

Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and “tariff blackmail” during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of... Read more »

Brow-beaten Milei nears Argentina’s ‘third year’ syndrome

If all governments suffer the third year syndrome, it is even more complex for La Libertad Avanza and President Javier Milei. After all, Fernando de la Rúa did not make it through... Read more »