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This combination of file photos created on July 12, 2026, shows Argentina's forward Lionel Messi in Arlington on June 27, 2026, and England's forward Harry Kane in Arlington on June 17, 2026.

Argentina v England: Battles all over the pitch

14-07-2026 09:17 Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between Argentina and England in Atlanta promises to follow in the footsteps of the fiery encounters that have defined this rivalry, with compelling individual and tactical battles across the pitch.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

As Milei’s aura fades, Argentina starts to look for a third way

13-07-2026 10:43 With President Milei’s popularity at its lowest level in more than two years, talk of the 2027 election has taken over investor trips and political circles. The question being asked is whether it might be the moment for a third way.

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

World Cup culture wars and the legend of Messi

11-07-2026 09:32 World Cups don’t occur in a vacuum. Rather, they are an integral part of the construction of cultural subjectivity across the globe given the prevalence and capillarity of football. Argentina’s central role in global football and its obsessed population add complexity and intensity.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Mundial trumps Trump

11-07-2026 00:07 ‘The Donald’ had bullied obsequious FIFA president Gianni Infantino into nixing a red card for the home team’s top scorer – an obscene subordination of the beautiful game to power politics.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

The breaking of nations

11-07-2026 00:02 From ancient times, periods of relative stability in which one big power was strong enough to maintain a semblance of order in the region it dominated have alternated with others marked by strife like the one we appear to be sliding into right now.

by James Neilson

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 07: Alexis Mac Allister and Leandro Paredes of Argentina celebrate the team's third goal scored by Enzo Fernandez #24 (not pictured) during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt at Atlanta Stadium on July 07, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.

WORLD CUP 2026

Argentina: Not for the faint of heart

09-07-2026 15:44 If we have learned anything by now, though, it is that you simply cannot write this team off.

by Dan Edwards

WORLD CUP 2026

Unbreakable Albiceleste propel Messi's final mission

09-07-2026 09:10 No team had ever recovered from a 2-0 deficit with so little time remaining in a World Cup match, but Argentina refused to let Messi's tournament story come to an end.

Newspapers showing midterm election results on display in Buenos Aires, on October 27, 2025.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Nation's political parties look for ways to avoid extremes

08-07-2026 18:25 With next year’s election set to offer a referendum on President Javier Milei’s reformist agenda, some influential business leaders and opposition figures are discussing the possibility that violent shifts of policy are coming to an end – regardless of who prevails in the 2027 vote.

Economy

Argentina to repay US$4 billion, defying critics who doubted tack

08-07-2026 16:50 Argentina is set to make a major payment on its dollar bonds this week, pulling off a feat few investors thought possible.

INTERVIEW / MODO FONTEVECCHIA

Andrés Gil Domínguez: ‘Eliminating the PASO primaries would strip opposition of tool to unify’

07-07-2026 05:15 Constitutional lawyer analyses the possible elimination or suspension of the PASO primaries in Argentina, arguing that its possible reform or repeal responds more to political strategy than institutional improvement.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

More stars or stripes?

04-07-2026 00:41 Within a decade of the Civil War, the US economy had overtaken Great Britain and the entire British Empire by around 1895 – from that point onward, it was more a question of the US impact on world history than the reverse.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

The United States turns 250

04-07-2026 00:40 Much of the population thinks the United States is heading in the wrong direction, but there is no agreement at all on what would be the right one.

by James Neilson

Analysing Argentina

Milei leans on the caste to seek re-election

04-07-2026 00:32 The arrival of Diego Santilli as Cabinet Chief signals a pragmatism that is both the result of a lack of trustworthy people in the ranks and Milei’s acknowledgment that he needs yet another dose of “caste” to align the means with the goals of his administration.

by Marcelo J. García

POLLING & SURVEYS

Argentines slam Milei over his handling of Cabinet chief crisis

03-07-2026 09:57 Argentines overwhelmingly disapprove of how President Milei handled corruption scandal involving his former Cabinet chief, according to a new poll.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Arrogance as state policy and the end of Manuel Adorni

03-07-2026 00:50 Manuel Adorni's resignation, in which he accused the press of "media attacks," comes across as pretty pathetic from a spokesman and Cabinet chief who built his tenure on arrogance and who now stands accused of corruption.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

US Ambassador to Argentina Peter Lamelas speaks at the US Embassy's Fourth of July party on Tuesday, June 30, 2026/

DIPLOMACY

Ambassador Lamelas: ‘US stands shoulder to shoulder with Argentina’

02-07-2026 13:42 US Ambassador to Argentina Peter Lamelas proclaims support for President Javier Milei and explains his own "America Dream" in a speech marking 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

Emmanuel Macron and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

GUEST COLUMN

The digital choices shaping our children’s health

02-07-2026 10:55 Around the world, childhood is being reprogrammed by digital technologies that shape how young people learn, play and connect.

MEDORA, NORTH DAKOTA - JULY 01: US President Donald Trump arrives in a Freedom250-themed train ahead of a dedication ceremony for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on July 01, 2026 in Medora, North Dakota. Amtrak unveiled the NextGen Acela train featuring the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Freedom 250 campaign to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States.

250 YEARS OF UNITED STATES

United States at 250: More prosperous, more diverse, yet more divided

01-07-2026 16:39 Demographic change and economic growth have reshaped America over the past 50 years; Immigrants remain the strongest believers in American Dream.

A ‘For Sale’ sign outside a home in Buenos Aires.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei tries again to revive Argentina’s dormant mortgage market

01-07-2026 13:04 Mortgage-backed home sales surged early in Milei’s Presidency only to evaporate as the government stemmed a currency run by raising interest rates above 100%.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Corruption scandals push Milei toward Argentina establishment he vilified

01-07-2026 12:37 President Javier Milei rode to power vowing to destroy the political elite he derided as “the caste.” Now, after a string of corruption scandals, he’s turning to one of its most recognisable figures.

Milei's fourth Cabinet chief of his first team.

POLITICS

Four in 30 months: Milei sets record for Cabinet chief turnover

30-06-2026 12:28 Manuel Adorni's resignation and Diego Santilli's arrival mark Javier Milei's fourth Cabinet Chief change, a pace a university study says has gutted the post of its constitutional power

Don Julio, arguably Argentina’s most famous steakhouse.

BEEF EXPORTS

Argentina’s beef export boom to US leaves locals paying more for steak

30-06-2026 10:50 Argentina’s exports to the United States are expanding fast past premium steaks to lower-quality cuts. That's great for exporters, but worse for locals, who see prices becoming less affordable.

POLITICS & SCANDAL

Milei’s Cabinet chief resigns months after private jet scandal

28-06-2026 09:13 Resignation marks a sharp reversal for the government after President Milei himself repeatedly brushed off the revelations about Manuel Adorni, deriding them as attacks orchestrated by the opposition and local media.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Milei’s ethics

27-06-2026 00:48 Milei has a militant and narrow world view that he’s tied to a vision that integrates AI and tech billionaires. Those same players have a global agenda that they will pursue, and Argentina will only be part of that plan for as long as it is useful for them.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Messi writing his own World Cup history.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

The end of the beginning

27-06-2026 00:18 No less than two-thirds of Messi’s record-breaking 18 World Cup goals were scored since turning 35 – in other words, at the age of 'Papi Fútbol,' he is deadlier than in the prime of youth.

by Michael Soltys

Give us this day our daily corruption at Comodoro Py.

POLITICAL INSIDER

Corruption, our daily bread

26-06-2026 06:29 An unrelenting cascade of corruption scandals enjoys political and judicial protection, while the government negotiates key appointments to put the brakes on cases at Comodoro Py.

by Javier Calvo

AS I SEE IT

The unsurprising fall of Keir Starmer

25-06-2026 16:22 From the word go, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer behaved as though he enjoyed the support of most of his country’s population, an illusion that was encouraged by the worshipful treatment he received from “progressives” in the media.

by James Neilson

ANALYSIS

Despite problems, Trump keeps gaining allies in Latin America

23-06-2026 12:23 Since Trump returned to the White House a year and a half ago, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Honduras have either shifted to the right or confirmed an existing conservative turn.

A demonstrator wearing a face covering gestures beside a sign reading 'Keep to your right, we are in Bogotá' during a protest against the results of the presidential runoff election in Bogota on June 22, 2026. Colombia's defeated leftist candidate Ivan Cepeda called for calm and distanced himself from post-election violence following his rival Abelardo de la Espriella’s narrow victory.

REGIONAL POLITICS

Right sweeps Latin America with new victory in Colombia

23-06-2026 12:20 The right has won elections from Argentina to Honduras. But experts see little evidence of a structural ideological shift. Instead, they point to a political landscape that favours anti-establishment outsider candidates.

IMPACT OF AUSTERITY

Minimum wage has lost 40% of its purchasing power under Milei

23-06-2026 12:07 Basic income for registered workers has plunged against November 2023 to levels even inferior to the 2001 crisis, according to a report by UBA Buenos Aires University’s Economics Faculty. Economic growth produces winners but they are not a majority.

by Ezequiel Orlando

Lalo Schifrin alongside his artistic heir, Rod Schejtman, holding the Honorary Academy Award in Beverly Hills. The image documents the joint creative process behind their symphony.

Music

Schifrin’s final symphony, Schejtman named Argentine cultural ambassador

22-06-2026 19:02 Rod Schejtman, the composer Lalo Schifrin designated as his artistic heir, now carries Argentina’s national brand to the world’s concert halls.

Juan Grabois entering Peter Thiel's mansion in the Barrio Parque neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

TECH BILLIONAIRE IN ARGENTINA

Peter Thiel's broken doorbell – a week outside his Buenos Aires mansion

21-06-2026 06:05 NOTICIAS magazine staked out the tech billionaire's home in Barrio Parque amid swirling rumours that the tech billionaire is leaving Argentina just as soon as he arrived. Days of surveillance turned up little more than fallen leaves, an empty mansion – and one unexpected visitor.

by Juan Luis González

ANALYSIS

World Cup blues in Messi and Milei’s Argentina

20-06-2026 05:59 The World Cup provides partial reprieve for nearly six weeks, especially if Messi & Co are in it for a deep run. Politics, though, continues its course, and Adorni is coming up to the chopping block.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Host with the most

20-06-2026 05:45 Nothing unimportant is more important than football with its victories and defeats metaphors for life and death with nobody actually dying.

by Michael Soltys

Analysing Argentina

Dogmatism, clumsiness force Milei off a winning wave

20-06-2026 05:43 What can stop Milei? The answer is very simple: his programmatic extremism and political clumsiness.

by Marcelo J. García

Relationship difficulties: Bibi and Trump.

AS I SEE IT

Israel gets thrown under the bus

20-06-2026 05:23 Unlike the US president and his business cronies, the Israelis have no illusions about the fanatical Iranian regime.

by James Neilson

Lionel Messi of Argentina celebrates scoring his team's third and hat trick goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group J match between Argentina and Algeria at Kansas City Stadium on June 16, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Unstoppable Messi hits another high with Selección’s solid support

19-06-2026 11:47 Argentina's national team opened their World Cup campaign with a comfortable 3–0 win over Algeria, thanks to a hat trick from the extraterrestrial born in Rosario. Six World Cups, 16 World Cup goals for Messi – and counting...

by Carlos Piro

POLITICS & SCANDAL

Adorni asset declaration shows wealth grew 45-fold in 2024

19-06-2026 11:07 Cabinet chief’s documentation attempts to explain an astronomical rise in his net worth. His legal strategy and mounting complications in Congress.

by Pablo Varela

HUMAN RIGHTS

Taty Almeida and the struggle for memory in the Milei era

15-06-2026 16:41 Historic leader of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora became one of the most impassioned voices in Argentina to rail against denialism and formed a bridge carrying the banner of memory and the white headscarf to new generations.

by Gabriella Danieri, Perfil

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

The Milei siblings are losing soldiers, fast

13-06-2026 05:59 If Argentina’s football team has a decent showing in the World Cup, inflation continues to come down and the economy begins to grow, then Javier and Toto can hope to come out the other end and look to consolidate their political project for the second half of 2026.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

It’s a small World (Cup) II: The geopolitics of football

13-06-2026 05:41 No host nation has won in this century, while there were no less than six home triumphs in the 16 tournaments of the previous century. The so-called World Cup is a Euro-American monopoly – will a new champion emerge from the record 48 competitors?

by Michael Soltys

AS I SEE IT

Donald Trump and his Ukrainian bête noire

13-06-2026 05:34 Hard as it is for Trump to stomach, Zelenskyy has greatly distinguished himself as a war leader. As for Trump, unless he is very lucky, he could find his name permanently attached to a deal with the Iranians that will bring to mind Neville Chamberlain.

by James Neilson

Shoppers in the Mercado de San Telmo in Buenos Aires.

ANALYSIS

Inflation slows to eight-month low in win for Milei

11-06-2026 17:00 Inflation slows to lowest level since September following a surge in March due to the Iran war-related energy shock.

Argentina's peso has declined the most over the past two months since an October sell-off before the country’s midterm elections.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Peso drops most over eight weeks since midterm sell-off

10-06-2026 15:44 Decline in the peso is gaining momentum as investors grow more risk averse and policymakers in Buenos Aires loosen their grip.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva talks to US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur on October 26, 2025.

Brazil election 2026

Trump looms large over Brazil's presidential election

09-06-2026 09:13 Given Trump's track record of throwing his weight behind his Latin American allies, a similar intervention in Brazil appears likely.

Religion and the Catholic faith in Argentina.

FAITH & RELIGION

Beyond Catholic Argentina: the nation’s new religious landscape

07-06-2026 07:45 Catholicism remains the largest religion, but rising secularism, generational change and growing diversity are reshaping how Argentines believe.

ANALYSIS – POLITICS & TECHNOLOGY

A robot oasis and billionaire’s playground in Argentina?

06-06-2026 07:02 Milei’s self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarianism seems totally aligned with the idea of generating a robot oasis and a billionaire’s playground in Argentina.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

It’s a small World (Cup)

06-06-2026 06:06 FIFA has 211 member football associations, of whom only 80 have ever participated in a World Cup tournament in almost a century while for the highest level of winners, you would have to knock the zero off that figure – just eight countries, all of whom are past or present members of the European Union or Mercosur.

by Michael Soltys

Last May 30 and June 7 mark the 50th anniversary of two crucial journalistic pieces which denounced the workings of state terrorism in Argentina – barely two months after the March 24, 1976 coup.

GUEST COLUMN

First warnings and the myth of ignorance

06-06-2026 06:00 Fifty years ago, two landmark articles were published that exposed the crimes and workings of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its emerging machinery of repression. They remain essential reading today.

by Gustavo Llarull

AS I SEE IT

The reign of Queen Karina

06-06-2026 06:00 Karina evidently shares her brother’s contempt for misguided people whose ideas and values do not coincide with his own.

by James Neilson

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Druckenmiller leads Wall Street’s return to Argentine stocks

03-06-2026 12:41 Foreign investors and major Wall Street banks exited their positions ahead of the 2025 election cycle – now they’re returning amid rumours of reclassification and market optimism.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Sergio Massa, Axel Kicillof.

POLITICS

‘After the World Cup’ – Tournament marks starting line for Peronism's 2027 hopefuls

01-06-2026 14:20 Opposition leaders are preparing to step into the spotlight after football's most important tournament ends, with Axel Kicillof and Sergio Massa among those positioning for a presidential run.

by Rosario Ayerdi

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Breaking the bank

30-05-2026 05:56 Today the widespread acceptance of the inevitability of central banks is based on the belief that every nation has one. Almost inevitable, then, but desirable?

by Michael Soltys

Analysis – Media & power

Clarín, Argentine media's ‘Vampire squid’, lives on

30-05-2026 05:43 Control of the media is one of the ultimate levers of power. Just ask Grupo Clarín, Argentina’s largest and most important media conglomerate.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Choose your own Argentina

30-05-2026 05:27 Depending on which data you look at, you get a different Argentina. The main political question for the next year is whether the two Argentinas will begin to converge or drift further apart.

by Marcelo J. García

BOOKS & LITERATURE

Argentina’s interior voice – an interview with author Selva Almada

30-05-2026 05:21 Between echoes returning from the past and a language that breathes the brush and the river, Selva Almada’s new novel 'Una casa sola' (Random House) creates a universe in which memory, violence and poetry intertwine in a richly layered narrative. In this interview, the author traces the novel’s fragmentary origins, its connection to poetry and the gauchesca tradition, so-called ‘provincial’ literature and why writing is a living organism rather than just technique.

AS I SEE IT

Donald Trump and his doppelgänger

30-05-2026 05:12 Did Trump make a historic blunder when he chose to join Israel in what began as an attempt to overthrow the Iranian dictatorship?

by James Neilson

DEBT & MARKETS

Argentine provinces tap global markets that sovereign avoids

28-05-2026 13:40 Provincial governments are tapping global bond markets at the fastest pace in nearly a decade

The Central Bank of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday, April 14, 2025.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei eases grip on peso as reserves hit seven-year high

27-05-2026 11:14 Central Bank reserves hit their highest level since 2019, giving President Javier Milei room to let the peso trade more freely.

GUEST COLUMN

Chamberlain or Churchill, Mr President?

26-05-2026 11:21 The clear question is Chamberlain or Churchill, Mr. President?

by Martín A. Morgenstern

AS I SEE IT

Human capital getting sidelined

23-05-2026 05:53 As has happened time and time again, the discrepancy between what seemed to be quite reasonable hopes and a dispiriting reality has bred discontent among the “overeducated and underemployed.”

by James Neilson

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Deep into the era of the algorithm

23-05-2026 05:51 Artificial Intelligence has turbo-charged an era of exponential change and cycles of innovation are now occurring in spans of months, even weeks. There’s a new generation of tech oligarchs that came with it.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Underneath it all

23-05-2026 05:32 The shift of wealth and population from the Greater Buenos Aires industrial belt to inland mining, farming, oil and gas is only now starting to be visible. Not all provinces are blessed with such natural resources, which could lead to new disparities arising alongside the old.

by Michael Soltys

BONDS & MARKETS

Only in Argentina: Junk-rated bonds yield less than US treasuries

22-05-2026 14:10 Byzantine financial rules, like restrictions on lending and moving money overseas, are still creating distortions in Argentina’s capital markets.

Football in Argentina

Belgrano chase history for Córdoba as River Plate revisit old wounds

22-05-2026 14:02 Belgrano will walk out at the beautiful Estadio Mario Kempes on Sunday hoping to become the first league champions in Córdoba Province's history – River Plate stand in their way.

by Dan Edwards

The Central Bank of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Argentina’s surge in foreign reserves risks reigniting inflation

21-05-2026 14:33 The Milei administration's biggest policy achievement has been the taming of hyperinflation and the last thing officials want to see is for prices to start soaring again.

President Javier Milei, pictured with some of Argentina's governors and official representatives.

POLITICS

La Libertad Avanza sizes up provincial agreements for 2027 election

19-05-2026 14:28 Preliminary plans and talks are underway as President Javier Milei’s party seeks to secure its regional allies across all of Argentina’s provinces; Government sources say definitions will be made after the World Cup, but the first bridges are already being built.

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Vaca Muerta will ensure next president against currency crises

19-05-2026 10:28 Between the export boom of Vaca Muerta and annual agricultural contributions, an unprecedented amount of hard currency could be entering Argentina as from 2027. The next government would have, for the first time in many years, sufficient support to avoid runs on the currency and hyperinflation.

by Carlos Burgueño

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Jonathan Taplin: AI revolution could lead to massive unrest or depression-style crash

16-05-2026 11:00 An intellectual with a past in the arts, the media industry and banking, writer and thinker Jonathan Taplin is worried about the future of society in the context of the so-called ‘AI revolution.’ He believes Silicon Valley elites are precipitating the worst outcomes.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

The end of inflation in Argentina – or of Javier Milei?

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Inflation as a false friend

16-05-2026 05:59 Inflation is rightly seen as the most malign tumour which can hit an economy but another way of expressing that might be to say that it grows on you like cancer.

by Michael Soltys