News of eduardo

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

Funds and bonds

Bessent steps in to protect profits of friendly investors in Argentina

22-10-2025 17:03 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent comes to the rescue of hedge funds including BlackRock, Fidelity, Pimco and Discovery Capital Management, all of which bought Argentine bonds. Several fund managers share a professional past with the US official.

COURTS

Fired ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo could turn whistleblower in graft case

09-09-2025 00:23 The former head of the ANDIS national disability agency is pursuing a different strategy to the Kovalivkers, the owners of the Suizo Argentina, who have asked for the case implicated top Milei government officials to be closed.

by Giselle Leclercq

ANDIS SCANDAL

ANDIS scandal: Experts struggle to extract data from Spagnuolo’s phone

04-09-2025 16:28 Deleted messages from the phone of the former head of the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), Diego Spagnuolo , cannot be recovered, according to experts working on data extraction

As I see it

Dark clouds line the horizon

30-08-2025 06:52 Millions who voted for Milei less than two years ago may have assumed that he would immediately replace the old political class but, needless to say, that was a pipe dream.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Audios rather more than hearsay

30-08-2025 06:37 No room for innocence where squeezing kickbacks out of the medicine for around a million disabled people is concerned – arguably the most vulnerable sector of society.

Politics & corruption

Milei’s libertarian dream and the risks of Karina’s greed

30-08-2025 06:22 It seems as if the Milei administration has been participating in the “caste-like” behaviour it was mandated by its voters to eradicate.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

argentina

Police carry out raids as Milei sister graft probe continues

29-08-2025 22:37 Police on Friday raided the offices of the ANDIS national disability agency and Suizo Argentino pharma firm as corruption probe continues.

BRIBERY SCANDAL

ANDIS bribery scandal: Court has more 50 audio recordings of Spagnuolo

29-08-2025 22:30 Prosecutor's office supplied with around 50 audio recordings that seem to feature ex-ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo by journalist Mauro Federico; Investigation into bribery scandal continues.

ABOUT THE BRIBERY SCANDAL

Explainer: What to know about ANDIS audio scandal

28-08-2025 16:52 Burgeoning corruption scandal prompted by leaked audio recordings linking Karina Milei and other top officials to corrupt practices in the purchases of medicine for disabled people.

POLITICS

Milei calls bribery scandal a lie after facing ‘rain of rocks’

28-08-2025 16:22 “This week’s operation is nothing more than another item on the long list of tricks by the caste and, like all the previous ones, just another lie,” declares President in speech to business leaders.

CORRUPTION CRISIS

Trading in ‘Lule’ Menem to save Karina Milei

28-08-2025 13:48 A risky idea is starting to spread in one government sector. Perhaps the only way to save the supreme sister is to sacrifice Lule.

by Javier Calvo

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Alarm bell ring for investors amid graft scandal claims

28-08-2025 11:55 Members of so-called ‘círculo rojo’ business establishment concerned by possible consequences of recent scandal, which could slow desired influx of investment. What the top businessmen who defend the economic plan think about the future.

by Ariel Maciel

PROFILE: Diego Spagnuolo

Diego Spagnolo: Milei’s ex-lawyer caught up in bribery audio leaks

25-08-2025 17:51 The man at the centre of the latest scandal facing President Javier Milei’s government is a friend of the head of state with a relationship going back years.

BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Bolsonaro’s family dynasty creaks under pressure of Brazil coup trial

25-08-2025 13:55 The once-united Bolsonaro clan is creaking under the pressure, leaving the coalition of centre-right parties in their orbit in disarray.

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

Greedy and corrupt libertarians?

23-08-2025 06:15 Smear campaign tactics are a defining characteristic of the Argentine political ecosystem during the electoral season. Corruption has risen as a preoccupation for everyday citizens, but it is still the economy that will determine whether or not Milei is successful.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

POLITICS

Milei adds a corruption scandal to his mounting list of woes

22-08-2025 22:59 Reeling from a week of political, economic and financial setbacks, President Javier Milei now faces a fresh corruption scandal reportedly linked to his sister.

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

Probe into alleged corruption at disability agency implicates Milei’s sister

22-08-2025 17:41 Raids carried out to gather evidence in an investigation into an alleged corruption case at the ANDIS national disability agency that implicates, among others, President Javier Milei's sister.

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

Disabled agency chief sacked after audio corruption claims

22-08-2025 12:08 Milei government announces it has placed ANDIS state agency for disabled under trusteeship and it will face audit; Chief Diego Spagnuolo sacked after leaked recordings allegedly featuring his voice claim shady deals with drug-suppliers involve Menem family and Karina Milei.

POLITICS IN BRAZIL

Police in Brazil say Bolsonaro drafted asylum plea to Milei in 2024

20-08-2025 22:37 Brazilian police claim that ex-president Jair Bolsonaro drafted request asylum from Javier Milei in Argentina in February 2024 as coup probe against him gathered pace.

CHILEAN ELECTION 2025

Frontrunners in Chile's presidential race offer contrasting futures

19-08-2025 10:12 Eight candidates are running to be Chile's next president, with right winger José Antonio Kast – who has run for the top office twice before – and leftist Jeannette Jara leading the polls.

FEATURE

Los Menem SA: How ex-president’s clan invoices the state

08-08-2025 13:54 Business dealings with the state are part of the family’s income, with the Menem clan remaining close to power. A look at controversial contracts and the "series effect."

by Rodis Recalt

BOOKS & LITERATURE

Things ain’t what they used to be – and nor were they then

23-05-2025 15:12 'Crisis social, pandemia y colonialismo inglés: una mirada de la Argentina a través del sainete y del seminario Don Quijote de Eduardo Sojo'; by Victoria Cox, Ediciones Diotima, 2024, 96 pages.

by Michael Soltys

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Prosecutor asks Supreme Court to double CFK prison term

15-05-2025 16:38 Attorney General Eduardo Casal urges Supreme Court to double jail term handed down to former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for corruption offences.

ART & CULTURE

Youthful promise overflows at Teatro Colón

08-04-2025 12:34 Precocious talent on full display at Teatro Colón as Orquesta Aeropuertos Argentina celebrates its 10-year anniversary in style.

by Michael Soltys

'CRYPTOGATE' SCANDAL

Prosecutor probes Milei assets in ‘$LIBRA’ Cryptogate case

27-03-2025 21:16 Federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano gathering information regarding the assets of President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei and three businessmen.

'CRYPTOGATE' SCANDAL

A month on from ‘$LIBRA,’ Milei siblings at centre of judicial tug-of-war

18-03-2025 17:00 Investigation into alleged corruption, influence-trafficking and public ethics rules now the focus of a jurisdictional tussle.

by Alfredo Izaguirre

POLITICS

Brazil's Bolsonaro bets on Trump card for survival

28-02-2025 15:22 Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro remains "calm" and places faith on US support to dodge a 40-year criminal sentence for allegedly plotting a coup following the 2022 elections.

'Cryptogate' scandal

Milei 'cryptogate' probe delegated to prosecutor

21-02-2025 17:29 Prosecutor Eduardo Taiano to assemble evidence against President Javier Milei regarding his involvement in the $LIBRA cryptocurrency scandal.

GANG VIOLENCE

In Río de Janeiro, a wrong turn takes paradise to peril

14-02-2025 13:32 Around the corner from Brazil's biggest tourist attractions lie gang-guarded areas where 19 people were shot last year.

Holocaust Remembrance

Milei uses Holocaust Day speech to talk about Elon Musk

27-01-2025 16:57 Argentina's president paid tribute to the victims of the genocide perpetrated by Nazi regime at an event in Buenos Aires on Monday, during which he defended billionaire Elon Musk and celebrated the release of hostages held by Hamas.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

The 86th victim

18-01-2025 06:41 Ten years later, Argentine society is still owed an explanation of a bafflingly mysterious death.

by Michael Soltys

DEATH OF ALBERTO NISMAN

A decade on, prosecutors conclude Alberto Nisman was killed

10-01-2025 11:22 Eight days before the 10th anniversary of his death, a new report concludes that late special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was killed for investigating alleged cover-up of the perpetrators of AMIA terrorist bombing in 1994.

ART & CULTURE

Costantini pays US$11.4 million for Carrington sculpture

19-11-2024 13:49 Collector behind MALBA, Eduardo Costantini, pays more than US$11 million for ‘La Grande Dame,’ which now becomes artist Leonora Carrington’s second-most expensive work.

CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT

PRO gains another spot in government as energy secretary resigns

17-10-2024 16:22 Eduardo Chirillo resigns as energy secretary; María del Carmen Tettamanti, former chief of Camuzzi gas distributor and advisor to Patricia Bullrich, appointed to post.

ART & CULTURE

MALBA opens new US$10-million museum branch in Escobar

30-09-2024 17:07 Malba Puertos opened to the public on September 22, a new exhibit space with free admission. The museum’s premises contains works by 60 artists.

by Rosario Bernasconi

ENERGY & GAS

Argentina may implement power cuts to cope with summer demand

23-09-2024 16:31 Argentina plans to resort to scheduled power cuts to cope with electricity demand this Southern Hemisphere summer amid forecasts for high temperatures that would force customers to crank up air conditioning.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Argentina reverses Bolivia stance, saying coup attempt was faked

01-07-2024 15:25 Argentina becomes first neighbouring nation to join calls from Bolivia’s opposition — including by former President Evo Morales — in denouncing the dramatic military uprising as staged.

COURTS

Justice system freezes assets of picket leader Eduardo Belliboni

30-05-2024 09:24 Assets of Polo Obrero leader Eduardo Belliboni, who is under investigation for alleged welfare fraud and embezzlement, frozen by federal judge.

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Top CEOs to heap praise on Milei at Patagonia retreat

17-04-2024 13:18 Elsztain will host president at exclusive Bariloche event; IRSA starting construction on biggest project in its history

BLOOMBERG

Real-estate mogul eyes ‘city-towns’ from Patagonia to Paraguay

12-04-2024 10:33 Eduardo Costantini, Argentine real-estate mogul who popularised gated community concept, plans to spend up to US$1.5 billion developing more in new areas.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

'Los dueños de la tierra': Argentina’s 20 biggest landowners

24-02-2024 06:25 Among those who concentrate the most terrain are businessmen and groups with between 100,000 and over a million hectares of land of every type. Some like Benetton or the Cresud, owned by Eduardo Elsztain, are better-known, but companies with Chinese, Swiss and Chilean capital also appear, along with bit players.

by Ariel Stemphelet

GUEST VOICE

Protest and circulation – a clash of two worlds

19-12-2023 21:52 The right to demonstrate and move freely are on a collision course in Argentina. Not to be taken as something natural. But the way out must inevitably be via dialogue.

A WALK THROUGH HISTORY

How Argentina arrived to 40 years of democracy

09-12-2023 09:31 From Raúl Alfonsín to Alberto Fernández, a breathless, compressed account of how Argentina traversed four decades of democracy.

by Michael Soltys

New government

Milei to appoint ex-Menem-era advisor as energy secretary

28-11-2023 15:56 Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo set to be appointed energy secretary and given responsibility for unravelling and restructuring subsidies on public utilities.

MILEI’S GOVERNMENT

Who will be in Milei’s Cabinet? Confirmed ministers, secretaries

22-11-2023 22:51 The libertarian government will have eight ministries, with Human Capital and Infrastructure the new innovations. Many previous ministries will become secretariats. A look at the confirmed and possible names in the next Cabinet.

PRESIDENT-ELECT'S PRIVATE LIFE

The making of a president – Javier Milei’s life before politics

21-11-2023 15:56 Argentina’s president-elect is more than an infuriated lion. A look at his youth, family, loves and controversies. From his childhood and education, to his times as Chacarita goalkeeper, to his academic training. The women with whom he fell in love.

News of eduardo

Karina in power

Bessent steps in to protect profits of friendly investors in Argentina

Fired ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo could turn whistleblower in graft case

ANDIS scandal: Experts struggle to extract data from Spagnuolo’s phone

Dark clouds line the horizon

Audios rather more than hearsay

Milei’s libertarian dream and the risks of Karina’s greed

Police carry out raids as Milei sister graft probe continues

ANDIS bribery scandal: Court has more 50 audio recordings of Spagnuolo

Explainer: What to know about ANDIS audio scandal

Milei calls bribery scandal a lie after facing ‘rain of rocks’

Trading in ‘Lule’ Menem to save Karina Milei

Alarm bell ring for investors amid graft scandal claims

Diego Spagnolo: Milei’s ex-lawyer caught up in bribery audio leaks

Bolsonaro’s family dynasty creaks under pressure of Brazil coup trial

Greedy and corrupt libertarians?

Milei adds a corruption scandal to his mounting list of woes

Probe into alleged corruption at disability agency implicates Milei’s sister

Disabled agency chief sacked after audio corruption claims

Police in Brazil say Bolsonaro drafted asylum plea to Milei in 2024

Frontrunners in Chile's presidential race offer contrasting futures

Los Menem SA: How ex-president’s clan invoices the state

Things ain’t what they used to be – and nor were they then

Prosecutor asks Supreme Court to double CFK prison term

Youthful promise overflows at Teatro Colón

Prosecutor probes Milei assets in ‘$LIBRA’ Cryptogate case

A month on from ‘$LIBRA,’ Milei siblings at centre of judicial tug-of-war

Brazil's Bolsonaro bets on Trump card for survival

Milei 'cryptogate' probe delegated to prosecutor

In Río de Janeiro, a wrong turn takes paradise to peril

Milei uses Holocaust Day speech to talk about Elon Musk

The 86th victim

A decade on, prosecutors conclude Alberto Nisman was killed

Costantini pays US$11.4 million for Carrington sculpture

PRO gains another spot in government as energy secretary resigns

MALBA opens new US$10-million museum branch in Escobar

Argentina may implement power cuts to cope with summer demand

Argentina reverses Bolivia stance, saying coup attempt was faked

Justice system freezes assets of picket leader Eduardo Belliboni

Top CEOs to heap praise on Milei at Patagonia retreat

Real-estate mogul eyes ‘city-towns’ from Patagonia to Paraguay

'Los dueños de la tierra': Argentina’s 20 biggest landowners

Protest and circulation – a clash of two worlds

How Argentina arrived to 40 years of democracy

Milei to appoint ex-Menem-era advisor as energy secretary

Who will be in Milei’s Cabinet? Confirmed ministers, secretaries

The making of a president – Javier Milei’s life before politics

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

Milei defies investor calls to build up Argentina’s foreign currency reserves

Deportivo Madryn clock up the miles in quest to reach Argentina's top flight

Five tourists killed by blizzard in Chilean Patagonia

Court orders US$500-million asset seizure in ‘Vialidad’ corruption case

Federico Sturzenegger dijo que la reforma laboral no afectará a los estatales y que busca "crear empleo formal"

Chocaron una Ferrari de 400 mil dólares, los internaron y se fueron del hospital antes de ser dados de alta

La historia de larga dictadura de Francisco Franco en España

La Batalla de la Vuelta de Obligado, un símbolo de la defensa de la Soberanía Nacional

Trump está peor que Milei, al menos judicialmente