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Santiago Caputo’s consecutive errors, government accelerates campaign mode

05-03-2025 10:25 Run of missteps by Javier Milei’s star spin doctor causes problems for the President.

by Ramón Indart

Top comms advisor Santiago Caputo aggressively confronts lawmaker

02-03-2025 15:34 President Javier Milei's top adviser Santiago Caputo accused of threatening and aggressively confronting UCR deputy Facundo Manes, who denounces "a government methodology designed to intimidate" and divert lawmakers from their institutional duties.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Milei promises more cuts, says 'chainsaw' symbolises ‘change of era’

02-03-2025 11:19 “We are the best government in Argentina’s history,” declares President, as he brushes off absences from opposition governors and deputies to hail his government’s economic measures and promise further “chainsaw” cuts lie ahead.

CRIME & SECURITY

Argentina to declare Mapuche group RAM a ‘terrorist organisation’

05-02-2025 14:28 Security Minister targets Facundo Jones Huala, the leader of the RAM indigenous group, over fires in Patagonia and vows to declare it a "terrorist organisation.”

indigenous activist

Jones Huala to be expelled from Chile after Supreme Court ruling

20-08-2024 15:23 Chile’s government has ordered the expulsion of Mapuche activist Facundo Jones Huala from the nation’s territory after the nation’s Supreme Court ordered the controversial indigenous leader be released from jail.

FACUNDO LOPEZ HUALA

Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala extradited to Chile

04-01-2024 18:01 Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala extradited from Argentina to Chile, where he will finish serving jail time for convictions for possession of firearms and arson.

DEMONSTRATION

Pressure on City authorities, police after demonstrator death

11-08-2023 13:30 Former FARC guerrilla Facundo Molares died after being detained during a demonstration against the primaries on Sunday.

FOOTBALL

Clubs are snatching up Argentina’s youngsters at an accelerating rate

10-08-2023 23:11 With the best players moving earlier and earlier, Argentina’s clubs must compromise, picking up those either too young, too old or not good enough to play elsewhere, or else gamble that yesterday's wonderkid who flamed out overseas can rediscover his best form back home.

by Dan Edwards

ELECTIONS 2023

Potential presidents catch the eye at AmCham summit

13-05-2023 09:12 Four potential candidates put on their best faces for business community, pitching their plans – and conditions for running.

by James Grainger

AMCHAM SUMMIT

Relief for business leaders as Massa and Rodríguez Larreta charm AmCham

11-05-2023 19:51 Preferred candidates for 2023 election talk up dialogue and air pro-market visions, with talk of alignment with Washington prompting sigh of relief from US business leaders

by Ariel Maciel