INFLATION STAYS DOWN Last month’s inflation was 1.9 percent, the INDEC national statistics bureau announced on Wednesday, thus increasing 17.3 percent so far this year at an annual rate of 36.6... Read more »

The death toll from the scandal involving contaminated fentanyl administered in Argentina’s hospitals grew to over 100 on Thursday, the government said, blaming a local pharma lab as outrage grew over the... Read more »

President Javier Milei let rip with a tirade of insults, bold claims and hyperbole on Thursday as he called on voters in Buenos Aires Province to back his La Libertad Avanza party... Read more »

After several minutes of smoke swirling in crimson-lit darkness, a voice announces: “Dracula – a Victorian melodrama” as the curtain goes up and that is exactly what follows. That is the wonder... Read more »

A multi-millionaire Burger King franchise owner, a former IBM engineer and a coca growers’ leader are among eight candidates vying to be president of Bolivia in elections starting Sunday. Right-wing ex-president Jorge... Read more »

Bolivians are expected to bring the curtain down on two decades of left-wing rule in Sunday’s presidential elections, with two right-wing frontrunners promising radical changes to end a deep economic crisis. Nearly... Read more »

At what stage do you find Argentina’s relations with Brazil and Mercosur? The recent Mercosur Summit [last month in Buenos Aires] had positive results. The external negotiations with EFTA [European Free Trade... Read more »

Javier Milei’s reforms have brought stability to Argentina’s chaotic foreign exchange market and praise from investors. But the overhaul is also fuelling the worst streak of corporate defaults since the pandemic. Local... Read more »

According to the latest report from the INDEC national statistics bureau, Argentina’s trade with China recorded the highest negative balance in the first half of the year: US$5.227 billion.  The Asian giant... Read more »