News of funding

Caputo says talks over new IMF agreement entering final phase

18-02-2025 11:12 “We’re onto the final points, negotiating the amount and the terms on which we agree,” says economy minister.

FOREIGN AID

USAID freeze threatens millions in Latin America

13-02-2025 13:49 US President Donald Trump pulls USAID funding from vital Latin American NGOs, public entities and life-saving United Nations programs.

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Ualá reaches US$2.75-billion valuation in new funding

11-11-2024 13:39 Fintech firm Ualá has raised US$300 million from investors at a valuation of US$2.75 billion, underlining its position as one of the most valuable start-ups in Latin America.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Argentina seeks US$2.7-billion line to cover debt maturities

23-10-2024 20:39 Argentina’s government is in talks with several banks to obtain a loan agreement of around US$2.7 billion for about three years in order to meet its principal debt obligations next January.

MULTILATERAL FUNDING

Latin American development bank announces US$3.8 billion in aid

14-10-2024 11:57 Ilan Goldfajn, head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) voices clear support for President Javier Milei’s reforms and quest for fiscal balance.

EDITORIAL

Reducing the issue

12-10-2024 06:16 Both sides fall into the error of reducing this issue to a budget tussle without bringing up the major structural problems of university education.

EDUCATION & ECONOMY

Teachers at state universities call 24-hour strike after veto vote

09-10-2024 18:13 Frente Sindical Universitario announces state universities will be hit with strike action on Thursday in wake of congressional backing of President Milei's veto.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Deputies back Milei’s veto of university funding bill

09-10-2024 15:43 Javier Milei’s government manages to shield his veto of the University Funding Law; Opposition fails to obtain the two-thirds needed to overthrow the President’s decision.

EDITORIAL

It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Worthy of their hire?

24-08-2024 05:31 Two other leading issues this past week – the senatorial pay hike and Congress rejection of the 12-digit SIDE intelligence booster. Nothing is black and white but try convincing most people otherwise.

by Michael Soltys

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Kaszek, Andreessen back Argentina fintech Tapi in US$22-million round

12-07-2024 12:26 Argentine financial technology startup Tapi raises US$22 million in venture funding in a Series A round.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Milei under pressure for the first time

06-07-2024 05:59 If the doubts regarding Milei’s capacity to preside over Argentina were tied to governability risk, Caputo’s are connected to credibility risk: it’s difficult to see how the current policy framework can be sustainable in time.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Pre-paid or re-paid?

20-04-2024 05:14 Subordinating medical fees to the dictates of a usually populist government did not work since it placed pricing hopelessly out of sync with the costs, but the naïve faith that the market could correct the damage of years in three months was a non-starter.

EDITORIAL

Pouring oil on the flames

02-03-2024 05:57 If the spark that lit the fire was the threat of Chubut’s PRO Governor Ignacio Torres to cut off all oil and gas unless the cutbacks were reversed, this might appear a wild outburst – but it was less random and accidental than it might seem.

AUSTERITY FUNDING ROW

Milei detonates relationship with governors and opens up a war

27-02-2024 21:00 Provincial debt under the spotlight has made the governors seek allies. Who are in the deepest holes? Will the mega-decree be overturned?

by Ramón Indart

POVERTY

More hunger, less money: Soup kitchens count rations

15-02-2024 00:33 At community meal centres across Argentina, a dual crisis is biting: the influx of ever more hungry mouths to feed during an economic crisis, and a decision by President Javier Milei's new government to freeze their aid.

CINEMA & FILM

Milei backtracks on cinema cuts after protests spread abroad

23-01-2024 20:41 President Javier Milei’s plan to strip Argentina's film industry of public funding, along with other cultural areas, may be prompting the government to backtrack in part.

FOREIGN POLICY

Fernández to seek fresh financing routes on trip to Brazil

30-04-2023 08:33 Alberto Fernandez will travel to Brasília on Tuesday seeking to capitalise on last week's talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.