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

Today 07:20 The murky past of the millionaire former spy behind the unchecked luggage flight. A key link between Javier Milei and Donald Trump, with ties to airline Flybondi and top presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.

by Rodis Recalt

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Darkness at midnight

Yesterday 15:46 If inner strife tore the centre-right apart in 2023 while eroding the rusty Kirchnerite machine now, is infighting infecting today’s invincibles?

OP-ED

In whose interest is interest?

Yesterday 15:43 Any recessive trend is unlikely to bite hard enough in the immediate term to affect the midterm results unduly but it could end up jeopardising Milei’s re-election ambitions.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Santiago Caputo dies hard

Yesterday 15:40 The closure of the national government’s Buenos Aires Province lists probably weighed in the vindictive mood of the star spin doctor whose minions were wallflowers when it came time for Karina’s provincial delegate Sebastián Pareja to define the candidates.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Milei, Lamelas and the politics of evil

Yesterday 15:24 Governors who used to oversee economic no-go areas, whose only hope used to be getting assistance or even charity, are now empowered by growing national and international business interest in their regions.

POLITICS - ANALYSIS

Dirty politics in the Province and the risk of violence

Yesterday 15:12 Libertarian coalition sparked the implosion and successive fragmentation of Argentina’s dysfunctional political system.

IMF

Argentina reaches IMF staff agreement

Yesterday 11:35 12 billion out of the 20 was made available in April.

FEATURE

Challenging overfishing: The craft fishers of Peninsula Valdés

26-07-2025 06:02 At Península Valdés in Argentina’s south, a group of artisanal fishers practise a daily craft which runs counter to the voracity of extractive industry. From a fishing province, they are rescuing a trade requiring patience and risk in a protected area many today view as under threat. A look at it’s like to work in a North Patagonian gulf, in crystal-clear waters, where whales follow motorboats as dogs run after the wheels of a lorry.

CONSUMER SPENDING

Luxury boom masks despair among the masses

24-07-2025 19:05 Consumer habits greatly vary among the different sectors of Milei's Argentina.

OIL & GAS

Patria, Eaton Vance Among Investors in Argentina Pipeline Loan

24-07-2025 18:50 The loan agreement is the largest in Argentine history for an infrastructure project.

DRUG SMUGGLING

Argentine among five foreigners sentenced in Indonesia for drug-smuggling

24-07-2025 18:28 Indonesia has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws; Argentine Eleonora Gracia sentenced to seven years in prison for cocaine-smuggling.

PRIVACY

Google ordered to pay Argentine pictured naked in garden

24-07-2025 17:23 Argentine man wins battle with Google over invasion of his privacy in his own property

MONETARY POLICY

Banks face liquidity crunch as peso yields soar

22-07-2025 17:42 Interest rates on peso notes are soaring across the board, piling pressure on banks amid a liquidity crunch caused by government efforts to defend the local currency.

IMF DEBT PROGRAMME

IMF to discuss Argentina amid US$20-billion programme’s first review

22-07-2025 17:16 International Monetary Fund to discuss first review of Argentina’s US$20-billion programme during an informal meeting between staff and executive board on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

MOTOR RACING

Argentina MotoGP to move back to Buenos Aires in 2027

22-07-2025 17:03 The Argentina MotoGP will return to Buenos Aires from 2027, almost 30 years after it was last held there, confirms Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

False start delays new Maradona death trial, timeframe uncertain

22-07-2025 16:53 Doubts remain after a preparatory hearing between prosecutors, defence lawyers and the new judges appointed after the first trial was declared null and void.

Retailers facing problems

Number of empty shops soars in capital amid consumption woes

22-07-2025 06:56 Vacant shops up 40% in the City of Buenos Aires; In May and June, there were 238 shops for sale, for rent or closed down in the surveyed areas, according to local chamber of commerce.

RACISM ALLEGATION

England's racism claim in Argentina clash upheld by World Rugby

21-07-2025 18:15 World Rugby have upheld England's claim that their players were subjected to racist abuse from Argentina fans during a recent tour match in San Juan.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Economy contracted in May for third time in 2025

21-07-2025 16:52 Argentina’s economy contracted in May for the third time this year, according to government data.

LIVING IN ARGENTINA

Boom or broke: Milei’s shake up splits nation along financial lines

21-07-2025 06:20 One half travels overseas and shops, but the other half of the country can't pay the bills – welcome to Javier Milei’s Argentina.

the week in review

Stories that caught our eye: July 12 to 19

21-07-2025 05:45 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

STATE SELL OFF

Government confirms start of AySA waterworks privatisation process

21-07-2025 05:29 President Javier Milei's government formally announces the start of the privatisation process for struggling state-owned waterworks AySA.

AMIA BOMBING

Jewish community commemorates AMIA centre bombing

20-07-2025 19:31 Hundreds of Argentines gathered in Buenos Aires Friday to commemorate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre.

FEATURE

Trial in absentia – the hope of justice for AMIA bombing

20-07-2025 19:18 The case of the Jewish community centre would be the first application of this kind of trial in Argentina. How this tool against impunity works, its authors, international precedents and other possible cases, such as the crimes of the military dictatorship, to which it could be applied.

by Sabrina Chemen

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

A big win in midterms would be bad news for Milei

20-07-2025 19:05 A huge victory might encourage Milei and his team to stick to the peso appreciation which is both keeping inflation down and pleasing the upper and high-middle classes of Argentina.

by Marcelo J. García

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Moody's upgrades Argentina's long-term debt rating

20-07-2025 18:59 Moody's raises Argentina's long-term debt rating by two notches.

YPF NATIONALISATION CASE

Argentina says it won’t negotiate with Burford over YPF shares

20-07-2025 18:17 Argentina won’t negotiate with Burford Capital, the firm leading efforts to collect a US$16-billion judgment against the South American nation, a spokesman for President Javier Milei told reporters Friday.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Caputo’s ‘buy ‘em up champ’ and Milei’s ‘Epstein moment’

20-07-2025 17:32 Leonardo Scaturicce is said to have been instrumental in staffing the DGI tax office which remains under operational control of Santiago Caputo, as does the SIDE spy agency.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

19-07-2025 18:53 While the last census of 2022 showed that Argentina’s population had risen some 15% since the Bicentenary count of 2010, the population of Greater Buenos Aires only rose 9%.

by Michael Soltys

Editorial

A Massacre’s Impunity Abides

19-07-2025 05:27 It is impossible to measure the scandal of the continued impunity enjoyed by the 1994 terrorist bomb destruction of the AMIA Jewish community centre.

MILEI'S ARGENTINA

The price of verbal violence

18-07-2025 05:17 Old behavioural norms are no longer respected. There are no limits to violent languages nor to intrusion into the private lives of people. Privacy is dead.

by Jaime Duran Barba

PRESIDENT & THE PRESS

Milei steps up attacks on media as election nears

17-07-2025 19:14 President Javier Milei has stepped up his attacks on journalists with defamation suits and insults that analysts say are designed to bolster his image as an anti-"woke" warrior ahead of October elections.

ECONOMY – ANALYSIS

The risks of the Milei government’s economic plan

17-07-2025 10:03 Macroeconomic order and disinflation alone do not guarantee long-term sustainability.

by Luis Secco

SOCIETY

Living alone: one in four Argentine homes has a single occupant

16-07-2025 22:23 Argentina tops the region for solo households and low fertility, signalling deep demographic change. Experts warn of an ageing population and urge urgent reforms to pensions and healthcare.

by Enrique Garabetyan

YPF NATIONALISATION CASE

Trump backs Argentina in legal bid to suspend YPF share handover

16-07-2025 12:42 US government to file amicus brief supporting halt against Preska ruling during appeal process; Trump administration shows support for Milei government.

COURT RULING

Court orders Fernández de Kirchner, other defendants ordered to pay US$535 million

16-07-2025 10:42 After experts analysed "the damage to the public purse” in Vialidad case, a court orders that former president and co-defendants to pay back about 684.99 billion Argentine pesos.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei tightens grip on currency market left awash in pesos

16-07-2025 10:10 President’s economic team sends a signal to the market that it still has an iron grip on Argentina’s money supply, a key ingredient to thwarting inflation, stabilising the peso – and his high approval ratings.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Di María's rapturous return pick of Clausura opening weekend

16-07-2025 09:31 There is no respect for rank around the Liga Profesional de Fútbol. Even World Cup winners with extremely distinguished careers are not exempt from getting their bones rattled from time to time. And Di María would not have it any other way.

by Dan Edwards

HUMAN RIGHTS

United Nations rights council criticises Milei pressure on Judiciary

15-07-2025 15:43 International rights watchdog calls for clarification on measures that could undermine the autonomy of the courts. Executive has yet to respond and present its defence.

YPF NATIONALISATION CASE

YPF: Appeals court halts handover of company shares for week

15-07-2025 13:29 Legal tangle surrounding the YPF case takes another turn. US appeals court suspends handover of the company’s shares for one week.

LAY-OFFS: WHERE AUSTERITY HITS

Correo Argentino, ARCA, Trenes Argentinos top redundancy rankings

15-07-2025 11:06 President Javier Milei put deregulation tsar Federico Sturzenegger in charge of cuts across state agencies. The official left almost no area untouched – among state-owned companies, Correo Argentino saw the highest number of lay-offs, with 4,945 jobs cut.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Milei celebrates as June inflation data hints at stabilistation

14-07-2025 20:02 Inflation last month only slightly up at 1.6%, barely up on last month; Consumer prices rose 15.1% in the first half of the year, up almost 40% over the last 12 months, INDEC reveals.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Monthly inflation in Argentina inches up but remains low

14-07-2025 19:49 June inflation came in at 1.6%, slightly up from May's 1.5%, which had been the lowest rate in five years, the INDEC national statistics bureau said.

ECONOMY – ANALYSIS

Inflation ticked up slightly last month, less than expected

14-07-2025 18:54 Inflation ticked up slightly but less than expected in June, another win for President Javier Milei ahead of midterm elections.

COURTS

Court upholds life sentence for man convicted of Tehuel de la Torre’s murder

14-07-2025 14:23 Judges confirm hate-crime ruling in killing of young trans man who has been missing since 2021.

DINO REPLICA IN RECOLETA

Patagotitan Mayorum: Replica of largest dinosaur in world at Recoleta park

14-07-2025 12:23 Replica skeleton of Patagotitan Mayorum, one of the most important finds of world palaeontology, will be on display at Recoleta’s Parque Thays until the end of August.

by Enrique Garabetyan

POLITICS

Move Group: the consultancy firm advising government and opposition

12-07-2025 07:15 From Mayra Mendoza to Rolando Figueroa and Alberto Weretilneck. During the Javier Milei Presidency, a wide range of leaders have contracted the services of the consultancy firm where Santiago Caputo previously worked.

by Giselle Leclercq

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Governors show lone-wolf Milei their teeth – will they bite?

12-07-2025 06:59 Wrestling with Argentina’s powerful provincial leaders is more likely to hinder Milei than help him achieve his goals.

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Corruption claims and political miscalculations

12-07-2025 06:16 The Milei government must defend its hard-fought macroeconomic stability at all costs, at least until the election. That’s why Caputo and Milei went on the offensive, making the rounds with their typical, friendly interviewers to accuse provincial governors and the opposition at large of seeking to destabilise the government.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Independence for whom?

12-07-2025 06:13 The Independence Day alliance on the right leaves the Peronists playing catch up after their stab at unification at the Partido Justicialista Congress.

by Michael Soltys

News of argentina

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

Darkness at midnight

In whose interest is interest?

Santiago Caputo dies hard

Milei, Lamelas and the politics of evil

Dirty politics in the Province and the risk of violence

Argentina reaches IMF staff agreement

Challenging overfishing: The craft fishers of Peninsula Valdés

Luxury boom masks despair among the masses

Patria, Eaton Vance Among Investors in Argentina Pipeline Loan

Argentine among five foreigners sentenced in Indonesia for drug-smuggling

Google ordered to pay Argentine pictured naked in garden

Banks face liquidity crunch as peso yields soar

IMF to discuss Argentina amid US$20-billion programme’s first review

Argentina MotoGP to move back to Buenos Aires in 2027

False start delays new Maradona death trial, timeframe uncertain

Number of empty shops soars in capital amid consumption woes

England's racism claim in Argentina clash upheld by World Rugby

Economy contracted in May for third time in 2025

Boom or broke: Milei’s shake up splits nation along financial lines

Stories that caught our eye: July 12 to 19

Government confirms start of AySA waterworks privatisation process

Jewish community commemorates AMIA centre bombing

Trial in absentia – the hope of justice for AMIA bombing

A big win in midterms would be bad news for Milei

Moody's upgrades Argentina's long-term debt rating

Argentina says it won’t negotiate with Burford over YPF shares

Caputo’s ‘buy ‘em up champ’ and Milei’s ‘Epstein moment’

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

A Massacre’s Impunity Abides

The price of verbal violence

Milei steps up attacks on media as election nears

The risks of the Milei government’s economic plan

Living alone: one in four Argentine homes has a single occupant

Trump backs Argentina in legal bid to suspend YPF share handover

Court orders Fernández de Kirchner, other defendants ordered to pay US$535 million

Milei tightens grip on currency market left awash in pesos

Di María's rapturous return pick of Clausura opening weekend

United Nations rights council criticises Milei pressure on Judiciary

YPF: Appeals court halts handover of company shares for week

Correo Argentino, ARCA, Trenes Argentinos top redundancy rankings

Milei celebrates as June inflation data hints at stabilistation

Monthly inflation in Argentina inches up but remains low

Inflation ticked up slightly last month, less than expected

Court upholds life sentence for man convicted of Tehuel de la Torre’s murder

Patagotitan Mayorum: Replica of largest dinosaur in world at Recoleta park

Move Group: the consultancy firm advising government and opposition

Governors show lone-wolf Milei their teeth – will they bite?

Corruption claims and political miscalculations

Independence for whom?

Argentina reaches IMF staff agreement to unlock US$2 Billion

Milei, Lamelas and the politics of evil

Santiago Caputo dies hard

In whose interest is interest?

Dirty politics in the Province and the risk of violence

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A 25 años de su muerte: ¿por qué se suicidó el doctor René Favaloro?

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