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Claudio Tapia speaks during an Argentine Football Association press conference in Ezeiza, near Buenos Aires, on March 18, 2025.

Crossfire for AFA’s top brass amid persistent corruption claims

Yesterday 19:07 Claudio Tapia, president of AFA, and Pablo Toviggino, his treasurer and right-hand man, are at the centre of court investigations, business complaints and accusations.

by Juan Cruz Soqueira

Passengers get off the train at Plaza Constitución station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

TRAINS AND RAILWAYS

Milei cutbacks sends Buenos Aires’ railways back to 1990s

30-11-2025 17:26 President Javier Milei's government declared a public railway emergency in 2024, but only 20% of the allocated budget was used that year – the remainder stayed paralysed due to lack of real funds and administrative delays.

by Juan Cruz Soqueira

Campaign signage for the La Libertad Avanza party in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on Thursday, September 4, 2025.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Ex-Peronist politicians at heart of La Libertad Avanza’s defeat in BA Province

11-09-2025 15:08 Ruling party’s leader in the district, Sebastián Pareja, and Moreno mayoral candidate Ramón Vera are Peronists who made themselves indispensable for the Mileis in the Buenos Aires Province structure. Yet theylost out in an election which the government had presented as a key test of national governance.

by Juan Cruz Soqueira