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Two years of Milei in five economic and social indicators

Yesterday 18:30 Two years into President Javier Milei’s government, a look at five key indicators and what they tell us about Argentina under the libertarian leader.

by Agustina Bordigoni

INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

Intelligence services adrift and under uncertain leadership

Yesterday 17:05 In a region beginning to convulse due to the presence of United States troops in the Caribbean, with a latent threat from Iran against the country, the reshuffle at Argentina’s SIDE intelligence services once again lays bare an agency riddled with internal strife.

by Walter Curia

As I see it

The Goddess of Reason returns

06-12-2025 06:52 Academics are not the only people who see the difference between perceived truth and falsehood shrinking at an alarming rate thanks in large measure to machines that, in theory, should be making it far easier to tell them apart.

by James Neilson

Politics & football

‘Tiny’ Tapia follows in the footsteps of ‘Don Julio’

06-12-2025 06:37 Tapia and the AFA scandal sit at the centre of a web of connections looping in almost the entire political ecosystem. It is under scrutiny by investigative journalists and the Judiciary, with the United States also paying attention.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

And so it (almost) ends

06-12-2025 06:00 Quite apart from the uncertainties over Lorena Villaverde’s Senate entry, Congress has been the scene of musical chairs with its first minority changing in the course of this week.

by Michael Soltys

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

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

Milei exposes local football rift by skipping Trump’s World Cup show

05-12-2025 10:24 President Milei and AFA chief Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia are at odds over an attempt to allow private ownership of teams in the football-obsessed nation – a row that has spilled over into the 2026 World Cup draw.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Football gods cook up two unmissable Clausura clashes

04-12-2025 19:10 Argentine football serves up yet another scintillating end to its broken Liga Profesional de Fútbol, despite the off-field chaos.

by Dan Edwards

OPINION & ANALYSIS

New Congress maths – can Milei allow himself the luxury of not negotiating?

04-12-2025 18:36 President Javier Milei's government has passed to being the first minority in the Chamber of Deputies and the second in the Senate. Last-minute switches – and the perils of over-confidence.

by Franco Lindner

OPINION & ANALYSIS

US Congress edges toward first-ever federal framework for digital assets

03-12-2025 16:21 As stablecoin rules take effect and the US Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees advance market structure drafts, lawmakers are targeting early 2026 for a floor vote on a first-ever federal digital asset bill.

President Javier Milei delivers a speech to Congress on September 15, 2024.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Milei’s party becomes top bloc in Congress

03-12-2025 15:01 President Milei's party became the biggest group in the lower house of Argentina’s Congress thanks to additions and defections.

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

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

The tectonic fracture of Argentina’s economy

29-11-2025 05:20 This is a game-changer for Argentina’s economy, anticipated for years and slowly happening. Milei has contributed to this outcome, but it is not solely the result of his actions. He is, however, the President that – if he does things right – will benefit from it.

by Marcelo J. García

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Disunited provinces II

29-11-2025 05:13 La Libertad Avanza won in 15 of 23 provinces, including the largest, with Tucumán the most important outside the fold. Opposition candidates only enjoyed a clear lead in half their provinces won, although LLA margins were extremely slender in four of their 15 victories, including the main prize of Buenos Aires Province.

As I see it

The world is becoming a more dangerous place

29-11-2025 05:02 Toeing the US line would be a simple matter if the man in charge knew where he was going and approached his goals in a consistent manner, but it so happens that hardly a day goes by without Trump changing his mind about something of strategic importance.

by James Neilson

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

High corruption in Argentina

29-11-2025 05:00 Two years into Javier Milei’s Presidency, there is a growing sense of impunity that by no means is his sole responsibility. It is reminiscent of moments of high corruption such as those seen in the latter Kirchnerite years.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Guard of no honour: Estudiantes de la Plata turn their back on Rosario Central.

Football in Argentina

On-field excitement and off-field silliness in Argentina's top flight

28-11-2025 11:54 Thanks to the AFA, Rosario Central and Estudiantes de La Plata, Argentine football stirred one of its classic storms in a teacup uproars – and it did not disappoint.

by Dan Edwards

President Javier Milei delivers a speech on Veterans' Day in Argentina, marking the 42nd anniversary out the outbreak of war in the South Atlantic.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Milei challenges Argentina's longstanding human rights policies

27-11-2025 19:11 President’s decision to appoint the head of the Army, Lieutenant General Carlos Presti, as Argentina's new defence minister comes amid calls for a new march to demand the release of military officers convicted of offences committed during the last military dictatorship and and delays to trials investigating crimes against humanity.

by Giselle Leclercq

Gustavo Petro casts his vote during the Pacto Histórico presidential primary.

Polling Data Restrictions

A crackdown on pollsters is clouding Colombia’s presidential race

27-11-2025 18:02 Colombia’s new polling law has made election data harder to find, deepening uncertainty for voters and markets as the 2026 presidential race nears.

RACE FOR UN SECRETARY GENERAL

Rafael Mariano Grossi: Renewing the promise – a United Nations that works

27-11-2025 00:03 "The world still needs the United Nations – but it must be a United Nations that works," says Rafael Mariano Grossi, candidate for Secretary-General of the top international body, in his vision statement, to which the Times gained access.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with President of Argentina Javier Milei in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

GEOPOLITICS & DIPLOMACY

Adapt or die: Latin America's response to Trump

26-11-2025 15:23 No country has been left untouched by what many view as a return to US interventionism in what the Trump administration has taken to calling "our hemisphere."

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Nothing to see here

26-11-2025 12:32 Milei's honeymoon moment – the election result in October – cooled the overheated mood in society, the media and among the political elite.

by Javier Calvo

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Milei, Thatcher and the English Mamdani

25-11-2025 12:51 Zack Polanski – an environmental activist, gay, vegan and former actor – is gaining ground among young voters in the UK, making Britain’s Labour Party nervous as it watches Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform Party grow.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

UCR leadership committee 2023-2025, headed by Martín Lousteau.

POLITICS

UCR enters a critical moment with the party’s future at stake

24-11-2025 21:27 UCR National Committee will be renewing its leadership next month. Tensions reflects level of infighting among different provincial tribes, torn between those governors maintaining a good relationship with the Casa Rosada and those who seek to keep their distance.

by Ezequiel Spillman

Campaign comments

Disunited provinces

22-11-2025 06:51 Looking at inland Argentina is far from irrelevant since tax reform is high on the list of President Javier Milei’s priorities with negotiating the revenue sensitivities of provincial governors perhaps the biggest obstacle there.

by Michael Soltys

AS I SEE IT

Snug in the arms of Uncle Sam

22-11-2025 06:41 For good or ill, it would appear that for the foreseeable future the United States will continue to be the only superpower worth taking into account.

by James Neilson

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Milei (finally) divides to conquer

22-11-2025 06:40 In his first two years in office, Milei united rather than divided the opposition. His all-out attack on “the caste” earned him many enemies and virtually no friends. But everyone likes a winner.

by Marcelo J. García

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during the press conference after IAEA’s Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 2025.

INTERVIEW

Rafael Grossi, diplomat in running to head UN, warns of increased nuclear risk

22-11-2025 06:33 Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says nuclear policy of mutual dissuasion, which has worked for many decades, seems to be eroding; “The hypothesis of a nuclear conflict cannot be excluded,” he warns.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

The absent leader strategy and Mr ‘Knee Head’

22-11-2025 06:30 There’s an unwritten rule in Argentina’s politics that sometimes the leader has to remain absent. Javier Milei and some of his top-level officials appear to have taken a page from that playbook.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

US President Donald Trump and President Javier Milei in the Oval Office of the White House.

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Milei's new challenge: Becoming Trump's delegate in Latin America

20-11-2025 00:39 Argentina’s government cheered last Sunday's election result in Chile and is already imagining a right-wing regional bloc led by President Javier Milei.

by Alejandro Gomel

Interior Minister Diego Santilli, Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni and Catamarca Province Governor Raúl Jalil.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

La Libertad Avanza close to 'first minority' as Catamarca governor eyes breakaway

18-11-2025 18:21 Catamarca Province Governor Raúl Jalil assessing whether to break with opposition Peronist caucus in lower house to form his own four-deputy caucus; Move would allow direct coordination with Casa Rosada and put La Libertad Avanza on verge of being first minority in Lower House.

by Julian D'Imperio

Economic indicators

Report: 276,000 formal jobs lost in 21 months of Milei

18-11-2025 16:18 Report by CEPA think tank details 276,000 jobs lost since start of Milei administration in December 2023; Study finds 20,000 firms – or close to 30 companies a day – have closed their doors over same period; Public administration and construction lead the decline.

José Antonio Kast speaks during a campaign rally in Santiago on November 11, 2025.

ANALYSIS

Crime, economic woes push South American voters to right

18-11-2025 15:36 Reasons why South Americans are electing right-wing candidates this year differ in each country, but they’re all driving the region in the same political direction.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Libertarian bliss and Macri’s shadow

15-11-2025 05:40 Macri felt invincible in the aftermath of the 2017 midterm victory, as does the President today. But hubris is a dangerous ailment for victorious politicians.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

AS I SEE IT

The BBC comes under attack

15-11-2025 05:15 To the delight of the many who loathe it, the British Broadcasting Corporation has got itself into deep trouble.

by James Neilson

Campaign comments

The City and the Senate

15-11-2025 05:05 While the government’s overall midterm triumph represented a huge shift from gloomy pre-electoral expectations, this city’s results did not show that much change from last May’s local voting.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

‘Cuadernos’ corruption case – Cristina couldn’t not know

15-11-2025 05:00 In the ‘Cuadernos de las coimas’ corruption notebooks trial, there is a relationship between the facts and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner because bags of money went to her own home. If they were used “to fund politics” and not for her personal use, it is still a crime. At the very least, the former president is responsible for not having prevented it.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

CHILE ELECTION 2025

Chile’s right targets migrants ahead of election

12-11-2025 16:37 Chile’s political right is seizing on anti-migrant sentiment ahead of Sunday’s elections. But beneath the hardline rhetoric lies an economy increasingly dependent on foreign workers.

A shopper at a grocery store in Buenos Aires.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei keeps the peso from driving huge price hikes

12-11-2025 10:59 Shoppers increasingly stick to essentials and foot traffic is thinning, limiting the ability of businesses to raise prices.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

From abyss to Olympus – and back down?

08-11-2025 06:49 For the time being, Javier Milei has been returned to the political Olympus, his reformist mandate restored, along with his energy. The question now is, where do we go from here?

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Mamdani, Milei, Trump and Perón

08-11-2025 06:44 The voracity for US dollars will sooner rather than later force Milei to seek another bailout, so he should wish that the Mamdani threat stays only at that and that Trump remains mighty for the foreseeable future.

by Marcelo J. García

As I see it

The Big Apple sends a message to the world

08-11-2025 06:41 Though few people outside New York think Soviet-style communism is about to stage a comeback, resentment among the many who suspect they are surplus to requirements is clearly intensifying.

by James Neilson

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Karina rules OK

08-11-2025 06:34 Karina Milei’s claim to the electoral laurels seems a slam dunk, but a different conclusion emerges once we look beyond the big picture to the provincial results.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS

Karina in power

08-11-2025 00:16 President Javier Milei’s sister and chief-of-staff believes she is the architect of her brother’s triumph. Now, not even he will be able to restrain her.

by Juan Luis González

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Two abysses

05-11-2025 10:29 Society voted no twice. No to the future being offered by Milei (September) and no to the past offered by Peronism (October). Dissatisfaction with everybody. In not opting for the alternatives to polarisation, the voters gave an extra life to the government and Peronism. A respite.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

What to do with a problem like Cristina?

04-11-2025 13:58 For a decade now, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and those aligned with her have been — fairly or unfairly — a negative symbol for a majority of society. Just as there is a hard core who respect or idolise her, there are broad sectors who would never again vote for any candidate backed by her.

by Gustavo González

Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks after the provincial midterm elections in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, as presidential advisor Santiago Caputo looks on.

POLITICS & MEDIA

Santiago Caputo left empty-handed in Milei Cabinet reshuffle

04-11-2025 10:12 For now, Javier Milei's star advisor remains a 'montributista' at the Casa Rosada.

by Gustavo Winkler

Editorial

Nature abhors a vacuum

01-11-2025 07:00 These elections were so dominated by La Libertad Avanza and Fuerza Patria plus its allies that it is easy to lose sight of the fact that their combined votes fell well short of half the electorate.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Javier Milei superstar

01-11-2025 06:40 Winning the election saved the administration from making immediate and desperate corrections from a position of weakness, but it does not save them from making changes altogether.

by Marcelo J. García

As I see it

Milei comes up trumps

01-11-2025 06:34 At least half of the over nine million people who voted for candidates linked to La Libertad Avanza did so not because they are devoted fans of Milei but because the last thing they wanted to see was yet another Peronist government.

by James Neilson

Campaign comments

The colour purple

01-11-2025 06:10 Despite governing the province for 34 of the last 42 years, the Peronists ran up a hat-trick of national midterm defeats there last Sunday – in 2017, in 2021 and in 2025.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Two-faced Milei: a second chance, but also a risk for Argentina

01-11-2025 06:10 Will Milei take advantage of the opportunity he has been granted in order to pursue a constructive political and economic agenda? Or will he use his newfound power to double down on his plan with no corrections?

by Agustino Fontevecchia

POLITICS

Post-election euphoria has Milei already eyeing 2027 re-election

28-10-2025 17:37 Results of midterm elections surprised even the ruling party – with fresh momentum behind him, President Javier Milei has put agreements with governors and Cabinet reshuffle on hold as he begins to eye re-election bid in 2027.

by Alejandro Gomel

Milei's electoral map – 2025 legislative elections.

ELECTIONS 2025

Milei turns Argentina's electoral map purple: provincial breakdown of results

27-10-2025 17:28 La Libertad Avanza won in the provinces with the most electoral weight and secured a clear national victory.

Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei waves to supporters as she celebrates at the ruling party's La Libertad Avanza headquarters following the results of the national midterm legislative election in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2025.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Winners and losers from Argentina’s pivotal midterm election

27-10-2025 14:18 Sunday’s legislative elections left a group of clear winners and losers; Javier Milei, Karina Milei, Diego Santilli and Santiago Caputo were among those celebrating, but the Peronists will have to pick themselves up off the floor.

President Javier Milei greets supporters as he celebrates outside the ruling party's La Libertad Avanza headquarters after the results of the national midterm legislative election in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2025.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Why Argentines backed Milei in the midterm elections

27-10-2025 12:40 Javier Milei pulled off a stunning win in Sunday's midterm elections, boosting his flagging reform agenda. After two years of economic hardship, why did voters back the La Libertad Avanza leader at the polls?

Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof speaks to supporters next to Vice-Governor Verónica Magario and elected legislators after the midterm legislative election at the Fuerza Patria headquarters in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, on October 26, 2025.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Voters hand Milei belated birthday present, post-mortem for Peronism overdue

27-10-2025 00:21 Peronism’s renovation is well overdue. It seems Argentines would much rather carry on along Milei’s path of uncertainty and sacrifice than go back to reach the future.

by James Grainger

President Javier Milei greets supporters at the ruling party's La Libertad Avanza headquarters.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Electoral blank cheque – is the worst version of Milei yet to come?

26-10-2025 23:45 It was a victory that neither the polls nor the government itself predicted expected, but it carries a danger: with it. Will the President radicalise further after receiving this vote of confidence?

by Franco Lindner

COST OF POWER

Milei spent around US$7.4bn protecting dollar pre-election

25-10-2025 16:03 Sunday’s legislative elections come at a historic cost: President Milei’s government has used around US$7.4 billion – a figure that could rise to US$8.4 billion, including funds from US Treasury are included – to keep the peso-dollar exchange rate stable over the two months leading up to the vote. According to Banco Provincia, it is the fourth-largest foreign exchange intervention since 2003.

by Carlos Burgueño

Analysing Argentina

The midterms are over – can Milei reinvent himself?

25-10-2025 06:17 For more than a year, Milei invested too much energy and resources in an election that was not structurally designed to change much of his future. He only seems to have come to understand that in recent weeks, when it became clear that La Libertad Avanza will not turn into a hegemonic force overnight.

by Marcelo J. García

ELECTIONS 2025: ANALYSIS

Milei, the two Caputos and the two anchors

25-10-2025 06:08 Milei and the two Caputos have the path laid out for them. The “two anchors” that will give them a future are tied to applying the necessary adaptations to the economic policy plan and creating the conditions for circumstantial legislative majorities. This situation appears possible under any electoral scenario, even a potent Peronist victory.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

151 shades of grey

25-10-2025 05:58 Voters are being asked to select not the next president but 127 deputies and 24 senators for which 217 lists are contending in the 23 provinces and this City with a total 1,648 candidates. The multiplicity of combinations arising from these numbers points to an infinity of results, each one of which would make the parliamentary negotiations lying ahead slightly different with no chance of any overall majority – 151 shades of grey.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Most countries are on death row

24-10-2025 21:07 Unless demographic trends change abruptly in the very near future, many other countries will precede Argentina on the path into the unknown.

by James Neilson

Argentina's President Javier Milei greets supporters as he arrives to the closing campaign rally of Libertad Avanza party ahead of the upcoming legislative elections in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on October 23, 2025.

MARKETS

Wall Street is wary of being burned by the ‘Milei trade’ again

24-10-2025 15:22 Global investors engaged in the "Milei trade" are bracing for another potential hit in the wake of this Sunday's legislative elections.

Bitcoin signage outside a cryptocurrency exchange house in Buenos Aires on October 22.

cryptocurrencies

Why Argentines are turning to crypto in the latest peso crisis

23-10-2025 19:26 As President Javier Milei tightens currency controls, Argentines are turning to cryptocurrencies to protect their savings.

ELECTIONS 2025

Understanding Argentina’s midterm elections – a guide

23-10-2025 17:51 In the face of endless previews and predictions, perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves how this weekend’s election plays out. A look at how deputies and senators are elected, how many are at stake per province and per political force in this election.

by Luciana Mina

Argentina's President Javier Milei greets supporters during a campaign rally ahead of the upcoming legislative elections at Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires Province, on October 17, 2025.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Guillermo Oliveto: Milei’s austerity has created a ‘dual society’

23-10-2025 12:34 Voters are asking themselves “for what purpose and for how long” they should tolerate President Javier Milei’s austerity plan, says economist.

President Javier Milei and members of his Cabinet.

POLITICS

Cabinet reshuffle: Who will head Milei’s ministries going forward?

22-10-2025 15:05 One by one, the post-election changes President Milei is preparing for his Cabinet; Among the names being discussed are Santiago Caputo, Patricia Bullrich, Luis Petri, Guillermo Francos and more.

by Alejandro Gomel

A campaign billboard for the Fuerza Patria party during the provincial election in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, on Sunday, Sept.ember 7, 2025.

argentina

A map at stake: Unity for La Libertad Avanza versus fragmented Peronism

22-10-2025 14:16 Karina Milei managed to make the purple party the only one running in all 24 electoral districts, even at the cost of arm-wrestling with allies and governors. The dispersion of Peronism has sent alarm-bells ringing – election night will open up a combat over the vote count.

by Rosario Ayerdi

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Challenges ahead as Provincias Unidas battles against polarisation

22-10-2025 11:32 Centrist alliance faces difficult challenge in midterms but is building towards 2027 presidential vote; Governors front could end up with caucus of between 16 and 20 national deputies – a crucial number that could block or unblock legislation.

by Ezequiel Spillman

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Youth at the ballot-box – over a million first-time voters with risk of electoral apathy

21-10-2025 18:12 Under legislation approved in 2012, those aged 16 and 17 may cast ballots, but they are under no legal obligation to do so.