Milei receives Trump’s Homeland Security czar

President Javier Milei received at noon last Monday in the Casa Rosada the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, a Republican hardliner close to US President Donald Trump. In a blend of diplomacy,... Read more »

The secrets of Leonardo Scatturice, Milei’s lobbyist in Washington

Leonardo Scatturice is known for many things – some true, others embellished and some that he’s let circulate freely. One oft-repeated story, now more myth than anecdote, is that he has a... Read more »

Uribe guilty of witness tampering

A Colombian court on Monday found Alvaro Uribe guilty of witness tampering, making him the South American country’s first ex-president to be convicted of a crime. The 73-year-old — who led Colombia... Read more »

World’s ‘precarious’ trade backdrop is hurting growth, IMF says

The world economy will keep weakening and remains vulnerable to trade shocks even though it is showing some resilience to Donald Trump’s tariffs, the International Monetary Fund said. The Washington-based lender, updating... Read more »

Darkness at midnight | Buenos Aires Times

Comparisons are odious but the Peronist infighting in Buenos Aires Province taking two blackouts and a 38-hour extension beyond their own deadline of Saturday’s witching hour to patch together their list of... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: July 19 to 26

BA PROVINCE TEAM LINEUPS Definition of the candidacies for the September 7 provincial elections in Buenos Aires Province went down to the wire of the Saturday midnight and beyond for the ruling... Read more »

Investors see way for Milei to end fight over YPF

There is a silver lining for Javier Milei in a multibillion-dollar US judgment targeting Argentina’s main oil producer: at least some investors see the La Libertad Avanza leader as having a shot... Read more »

Brazil’s Lula pledges ‘solidarity’ as he visits house-confined Fernández de Kirchner

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her apartment on Thursday in Buenos Aires, where the Argentine ex-president is under house arrest, wishing her “the strength to... Read more »

Lula hugs it out with Milei, but saves warm embrace for Fernández de Kirchner

The sharp divides roiling Latin American politics were visible in a pair of hugs. The first was a stiff and awkward squeeze between Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentina’s Javier... Read more »

Lawyers demand release of anti-Espert ‘K’ protesters

Defence lawyers for those accused of carrying out a controversial ‘escrache’ protest against La Libertad Avanza deputy José Luis Espert have demanded their immediate release from custody. Together with CELS (Centro de... Read more »