Carolina Moisés: ‘We either return to being Peronist or Peronism will cease to exist’
“They’re not going to get it,” says under-fire vice-president; Tensions with head of state were laid bare before nation at last weekend’s state-of-the-nation speech.
New Millo boss Eduardo ‘Chacho’ Coudet says River must ‘reset and start from scratch’ at unveiling; Marcelo Gallardo's successor signs contract tying him to the club until December 2027.
Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña
First preliminary hearing exposes the scale of the proceedings over the disappearance of five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña in Corrientes in June 2024; Prosecutor Carlos calls for acceleration, questions limits put on his work; There are two parallel cases and 17 people indicted in all.
CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST
Argentina’s Ambassador to Israel Axel Wahnish said that the “priority is to support and provide security”; Envoy says 200 tourists are stuck due to Iran missile threat, with 100,000 residents in danger.
CORRUPTION & THE COURTS
Kirchner-era housing scandal heads to trial; Former government officials and Schoklender brothers face court as case probing misappropriation of more than 200 million pesos, which is nearing statute of limitations, gets underway.
YPF, Vista Energy and Pampa Energía eyeing RIGI programme after Milei administration broadened it to include shale oil wells.
CGT launches constitutional challenge to President Javier Milei's flagship labour reform, three days after it was adopted.
President to headline Argentina Week event in New York; Roadshow to gather global CEOs, top bankers and provincial leaders; Eight governors to join trip as government promotes RIGI and monetary overhaul.
Number of people living on streets increased by 30% in Buenos Aires City over last year; Economic and mental health problems in the capital.
Argentina’s upper house approves Milei-backed overhaul of landmark 2010 law, bill now heads to lower house; Greenpeace activists detained during protest outside Congress.
Argentina’s Senate voted on Thursday on Javier Milei's bill that would allow governors – many pro-mining – to overrule federal protections on glaciers and their surrounds, known as periglacial areas.
President Javier Milei’s government analysing moving Argentina’s Human Rights Department from ex-ESMA clandestine detention centre to offices of now defunct Women, Gender and Diversity Ministry; Move would take place in the same month as the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup, according to reports.
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Major victory for Milei as labour modernisation bill clears Congress
President Javier Milei promises his flagship labour reform is the next step in his effort to remake the economy. Few places need that more than Villa Constitución, making it a barometer of the change ahead.
by Gabriel Zorrilla Argentina’s government wants to reduce labour litigation, but lawyers warn that the changes in dismissals, trial periods and litigation could have the opposite effects to those sought by the government.
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POLITICS & CONGRESS
Despite last-minute changes, Javier Milei's labour reform stands to be one of the biggest overhauls to Argentina’s economy in decades.
AFA FOOTBALL PROBE
The courts are investigating football authorities for holding back money, its Qatar 2022 World Cup prizes and fraudulent financial movements; AFA chief Tapia has been summoned and slapped with restrictions on leaving the country.
POLITICS & CONGRESS
Milei and La Libertad Avanza notch up another legislative win in special Congress sessions; New juvenile penal regime will lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14, down from the present age of 16.
A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.
French President Emmanuel Macron, a critic of the EU-Mercosur deal, calls the decision a “bad surprise” at an event in Paris.
European Union announces it will implement provisionally its mammoth trade deal with the Mercosur trade bloc while waiting for a top court's ruling on its legality.
Flavio Bolsonaro, who two months ago wasn’t considered a strong contender despite hailing from an influential family, has a real chance to become Brazil’s next leader.
US government has previously backed Argentina in the case, urging courts not to allow the plaintiffs to seize majority stake in YPF.
Riding high off approval of EU-Mercosur deal and progress on amendments to Glacier Protection Law, President will address Legislative Assembly – and the nation – in a primetime speech Sunday night.
Hillary Clinton quizzed on Epstein, calls for Trump to testify; UK govt says will release files on 'rude' ex-prince Andrew.
Taboo subject of death is made an intro to a sequence of sardonically thought-provoking reflections in this special one-off performance.
Lawmakers in Argentina ratify sweeping trade deal between Mercosur and European Union, hours after Uruguay did the same; Senate follows lower house approval with huge majority vote, 69 in favor, three against.
Twelve activists from environmental NGO Greenpeace arrested during a protest at Congress against potential reform of Glacier Protection Law.
Investors have lauded Milei for slashing fiscal spending and slowing Argentina’s rampant inflation, but those successes are yet to translate into a durable surge in profits.
Uber drivers in Latin America and the Caribbean are overwhelmingly male, most have a high rate of university education and tend to take on the work part-time.
Brazil Supreme Federal Court sentences Brazão brothers for ordering murder of councillor slain in 2018, a milestone of political violence and militia power in Rio de Janeiro.
La Libertad Avanza believes that there is more than enough margin to continue implementing changes which they describe as “structural.”
Buenos Aires City mayor says his administration has taken “a political decision to enforce the law” and that, as a result, all crimes in the capital have decreased.
