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Brazilian ambassador: Lula-Milei differences have 'minimal effect on bilateral relations’

05-04-2025 06:34 Brazil’s Ambassador to Argentina on managing bilateral relations, despite the enmity between Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Julio Bitelli on Jair Bolsonaro’s trial, the Malvinas issue, the flirtation between Argentina and the United States, the trade imbalance and the importance of Vaca Muerta.

by Cecilia Degl'Innocenti

Milei denies role in 'cryptogate' after 'pay for access' reports

03-03-2025 09:36 The La Libertad Avanza leader said he posted about the cryptocurrency in "good faith" and denies wrongdoing.

‘Trump is the catalyst,’ agree former ambassadors to China

01-02-2025 09:44 Argentina’s two most recent ambassadors to China, Diego Guelar and Sabino Vaca Narvaja, discuss the chessboard facing the world’s two key powers as Donald Trump begins a new term in the United States.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Milei talks relations with ‘docile’ IMF and ‘generous’ Trump in interview

29-11-2024 12:58 President Javier Milei grants lengthy interview to UK magazine 'The Economist' detailing how he cut state spending, his relationship with US president-elect Donald Trump, ties with China and is seeking new deal with the International Monetary Fund.

Sleeper agents tell Russian TV about living undercover as Argentines

06-08-2024 14:52 Two sleeper agents returned to Russia in a prisoner exchange have spoken to state television about breaking the news to their Spanish-speaking children that they were in fact Russian.

Martin Schulz: ‘The result of the war in Ukraine is decisive for the future of the EU’

02-08-2024 07:05 Former President of the European Parliament, German ex-lawmaker and MEP Martin Schulz, a former president of the European Parliament, on politics in the Old Continent, the EU’s ties with Latin America and the global rise of the far right.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Claudia Piñeiro: ‘I’ve never ever seen another president celebrate the tears of a rival’

15-06-2024 05:49 Award-winning writer, playwright and screenwriter Claudia Piñeiro on narrative, challenges to women’s rights and President Javier Milei’s rhetoric.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Milei compares himself to ‘The Terminator’ in interview

07-06-2024 17:40 President vows to cut another 50,000 state jobs as part of his sweeping austerity drive.

Emilio Monzó: ‘Today fear is so strong that it has wiped out leaders with identity’

04-05-2024 06:38 Ex-lower house speaker and national deputy for Buenos Aires Province on the first 100 days of President Javier Milei’s government, the future of Juntos por el Cambio and why the state isn’t a criminal enterprise.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

EU-Mercosur deal is ‘win-win,’ says Poland’s ambassador to Argentina

03-05-2024 08:17 Aleksandra Piątkowska, Warsaw’s envoy in Buenos Aires, discusses the stalled free-trade deal between the Mercosur and European Union, bilateral relations with Argentina and the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

by Julia Oleszynska

Guillermo Dietrich: ‘I’m backing this government all I can so that it does well’

13-04-2024 05:47 Former transport minister and close ally of Mauricio Macri on the Milei government, state companies and Juntos por el Cambio.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

‘No alternative’ to austerity in Argentina, says top World Bank official

10-04-2024 17:59 Economist William Maloney comes out in support of Milei’s government’s reform plans; World Bank says Argentina's economy will decline 2.8% in 2024.

Milei talks up his peso plans, China, Trump and Israel

05-04-2024 09:44 Libertarian leader discusses fiscal and monetary plans, his approach to one of his country’s biggest trading partners and creditors, and much more in interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.

Milei doesn’t see Argentina dollarising before midterm vote

01-04-2024 09:33 “I don’t think we’ll get there before next year’s mid-term elections," declares president in TV interview with CNN en Español.

Milei won't resubmit reform plan to Congress until late 2025

29-02-2024 11:04 In an interview with British newspaper the 'Financial Times,' President Javier Milei says his sweeping 'omnibus bill' will be resubmitted to Congress – but not until December 2025

Waldo Wolff: ‘With tougher penalties in the City, we can lower crime by 50%’

19-02-2024 17:26 Buenos Aires City Security Minister Waldo Wolff details reforms implemented by the new administration, explains how crime could be further slashed and why “Jorge Macri is a modern leader.”

by Ezequiel Spillman

Emilce Cuda: ‘It’s a fantasy that we’re individuals, we’re in relationships with others’

27-01-2024 07:00 Theologian Emilce Cuda is the first Argentine laywoman to receive a pontifical PhD in moral theology and the first female to hold an executive position on the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. In an interview, she discusses Pope Francis and explains why “individualism is an egotistical position.”

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Rodolfo Barra: ‘Emergency decrees are for when the going gets tough’

13-01-2024 06:41 Argentina’s new Treasury attorney defends President Javier Milei’s emergency decree in a feature-length interview that also touches on protest rights, the Supreme Court and his Nazi past during adolescence.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

'Badly measured' – Fernández questions official poverty rate

04-12-2023 13:53 President Alberto Fernández has questioned the INDEC national statistics bureau, saying he think that Argentina’s official poverty rate is “badly measured.”

‘Carlitos has the courage’ – Agüero impressed by Tevez’s start at Independiente

02-12-2023 10:16 Ex-Rojo favourite Sergio Agüero says his former Argentina international teammate Carlos Tevez has “handled the pressure well” in his debut season in Avellaneda.

by Dan Edwards