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Milei vs Villarruel: Latest episode in ongoing feud

17-12-2024 13:29 In Victoria Villarruel’s camp, there is surprise at the Executive's attitude. A failed attempt at reconciliation as the Casa Rosada’s satellites launch a full-frontal assault on their own ally.

by Giselle Leclercq

Budget clash, extra sessions, Speaker Menem – Milei’s first year in Congress

04-12-2024 17:39 Despite being firmly in the minority, Milei has managed to amend over 100 laws since taking office and advance his programme of fiscal austerity. Nevertheless, tensions with allies and opposition persist, centred on the 2025 Budget, anti-graft laws and electoral reform.

by Facundo Maceira

VP Villarruel breaks ranks over Argentina-UK agreement

28-09-2024 09:54 Victoria Villarruel, Argentina’s military-loving vice-president, highlights disagreements over new accord and asks if United Kingdom is “playing us for fools”; New agreement between Buenos Aires and London is “contrary to national interest,” supports “occupation” and allows “plundering” of seas, she argues.

When ugly ducklings are black swans

31-08-2024 05:27 How can the libertarian creed possibly have anything in common with the totalitarian model of a military dictatorship?

by Michael Soltys

Milei's 'Ley de Bases' bill clears Senate as VP casts decisive vote

12-06-2024 23:24 Senate gives general approval to President Milei's 'Ley de Bases' mega-reform bill after fresh round of amendments.

Milei’s flagship reforms head for Senate vote

30-05-2024 16:50 Vice-President Victoria Villarruel and new Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos secure signatures, allowing 'Ley de Bases' to clear committee stage in Senate.

Rebellion in Senate: Pay increase passed by show of hands and without debate

18-04-2024 17:40 Milei lashes out via social networks after senators vote to approve pay increase; "2025 will see a historic hiding" for the caste, says President.

Alberto González: ESMA torturer – and vice-president’s mentor

29-03-2024 21:02 He headed the dreaded “underground” of the ESMA Navy Mechanics School concentration camp. Convicted for crimes against humanity, Alberto González was also the first dictatorship-era criminal to be sentenced for rape. He is also the mentor of Argentina’s Vice-President Victoria Villarruel.

by Juan Luis González

100 days of Milei: Constructing political enemies and catharsis online

19-03-2024 13:44 The President marked his style from day one, when he broke with tradition and turned his back on Congress. Whatever the fight, he finds his catharsis on social networks.

Milei’s bold decree suffers major setback after repeal in Senate

14-03-2024 21:18 President's initial dose of shock therapy teeters on the edge of collapse after Senate defeats his sweeping executive decree.

Milei's human rights secretary on future of ex-ESMA memory site

19-12-2023 17:07 New head of Human Rights Secretariat, Alberto Baños, offers Milei government’s first definitions regarding future of ex-ESMA memory site questioned by Vice-President Victoria Villarruel.

Milei the pragmatist and Toto’s ‘caputazo’

16-12-2023 06:06 The ‘caputazo’ replaced pure austerity with a mix of higher taxes together with spending cuts and the “dilution” of part of the deficit through high inflation. The next few months will see runaway inflation run even farther away and put intense pressure on the population, as wages and salaries fall even farther behind.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Protesters in Buenos Aires admonish incoming government’s ‘denialism’

24-11-2023 16:53 Activists join weekly Madres de Plaza de Mayo march to admonish Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel over their “denialism” of state terrorism during 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Fernández de Kirchner, Villarruel hold ‘historic’ transition meeting

23-11-2023 00:48 “Cordial and respectful” meeting held in the outgoing vice-president’s office at Senate, with no photographs taken; Villarruel says she will be "working all summer through."

Vice-presidential candidates clash over poverty and human rights

09-11-2023 20:05 Exchanges over crime, state terrorism and economy and accusations of lying dominate high-voltage debate between Agustín Rossi and Victoria Villarruel.

The imperious need to penalise denialism

27-09-2023 13:12 There are issues, like crimes against humanity, which should be beyond electoral speculation. With the same speed with which the government secured approval for amending the income tax threshold, it should also now approve a law to condemn denialism with the support of Juntos por el Cambio and a united opposition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

The make-up of Victoria Villarruel’s inner circle

07-09-2023 15:04 Javier Milei’s vice-presidential candidate has close group taken from her teams from the Fundación Oíd Mortales and the Partido Demócrata of Buenos Aires Province. Trajectories and thoughts of a hermetic group on the rise.

by Giselle Leclercq

Outcry at event puts Villarruel's dictatorship beliefs in spotlight

05-09-2023 16:23 Demonstrators protest against Victoria Villarruel's event paying tribute to "the victims of terrorism" held at the City Legislature.

Electoral platform: Dollarisation, privatisations, guns, no sexual ed

18-05-2023 15:33 Leaked electoral platform presented by libertarian lawmaker to Judge María Servini features more than 60 proposals he aims to put into practice if he becomes president.