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Scenarios: Three possible paths to Argentina’s 2027 election

15-08-2026 10:22 Three scenarios, but one decisive factor: the economy.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Economic conundrums

15-08-2026 07:00 The Milei administration has yet to square the circle of taming inflation without recession.

Inflation edged up last month on winter holidays

13-08-2026 17:00 Economy Minister Luis Caputo announces companies without earnings in dollars will now be able to borrow greenbacks.

Milei eases cash crunch to reignite economic growth

12-08-2026 14:02 Milei administration starting to shift its focus from solely crushing inflation to a more balanced approach.

Milei’s weeks of fury

08-08-2026 19:16 Milei is following Trump’s lead, trying to erode Lula’s position ahead of the consequential vote scheduled for October 4.

Milei’s money man shuns foreign markets after failed bond binge

03-08-2026 18:27 Luis Caputo previously tapped foreign bond markets again and again, earning the moniker “serial borrower” from his critics. But nowadays, he's not selling bonds overseas.

Cristina and Karina – the two most powerful women in Argentina

24-07-2026 00:06 The fact that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Karina Milei are the two most influential women in the country speaks as much to their own qualities as to the shortcomings of a country still wedded to polarisation.

by Gustavo González

Milei opens door to electric cars as Musk's Tesla firms up arrival plans

20-07-2026 14:10 Argentina’s car market is undergoing a silent but fast-moving revolution. While the world's most eccentric mobility brand, Elon Musk’s Telsa, prepares for its arrival in the national market, the landscape has already been transformed by new Asian giants.

by Eugenia Muzio

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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