Juan Pablo Valdés coasts to victory in Corrientes Province

Ruling party candidate Juan Pablo Valdés coasted to victory in Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Corrientes Province, easily seeing off his rivals with a lead of almost 30 points. Valdés, the brother of... Read more »

Trading in ‘Lule’ Menem to save Karina Milei

As the days go by, President Javier Milei’s government is trying to emerge as best it can from the paralysis in which it has been immersed since the audio recordings of the... Read more »

Swimming against the current | Buenos Aires Times

If in the 1946 elections Corrientes was the only province not to vote Peronist, at this moment a Corrientes electing a new governor tomorrow could be the only part of Argentina where... Read more »

Milei’s libertarian dream and the risks of Karina’s greed

Javier Milei’s successful battle against inflation in Argentina has become his key political asset ahead of this year’s consequential midterm elections, scheduled for October 26. It has also opened the door for... Read more »

Audios rather more than hearsay

C ould redefining friendly fire form part of the government’s urgent need to reinvent itself in its political winter? Those explosive voice note recordings pointing to corruption in the highest presidential circles... Read more »

Forget about October, what matters is the day after

Argentines voted for Javier Milei on two assumptions. One, that he could sort out the economy, which had been in a slow-motion hyperinflation for half a decade. Two, that he was different... Read more »

Milei government panics after fresh leak of Karina audio

An emergency meeting took place at the Casa Rosada on Saturday as President Javier Milei’s government reacted to the leak of another damaging audio recording. Cabinet officials and top advisers were summoned... Read more »

Crisis in Argentina’s Armed Forces as poor salaries lead to exodus

Argentina’s economic crisis shows no sign of slowing and wages across much of the national economy remain below any acceptable standard of consumption. This has triggered a crisis of major proportions within... Read more »

Untapped lithium riches are in crosshairs of Bolivian candidate

The man vying to become Bolivia’s first elected right-wing president in two decades is promising to kick-start exploitation of the world’s joint-biggest lithium deposits after more than a decade of false starts.... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: August 22 to 29

  ANDIS SCANDAL BOILS ON The scandal beginning on August 19, a day before the government fired Diego Spagnuolo, the head of ANDIS agency for the disabled, which was placed under trusteeship,... Read more »