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CHILE ELECTION 2025

Chile’s right targets migrants ahead of election

12-11-2025 16:37 Chile’s political right is seizing on anti-migrant sentiment ahead of Sunday’s elections. But beneath the hardline rhetoric lies an economy increasingly dependent on foreign workers.

ELECTION IN CHILE

Presidential hopeful Kaiser vows to withdraw Chile from IACHR rights court

06-11-2025 20:31 Chilean libertarian Johannes Kaiser is promising to withdraw Chile from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in his latest bid for presidency.

POLITICS & CULTURE

Milei’s changes at state children’s channel sparks controversy

05-06-2025 18:08 Controversy erupts in Argentina as libertarian animated series lands on state channel Paka Paka; Critics accuse Milei administration of seeking to impose ideology on the nation's kids.

ART & DIPLOMACY

Brush with censorship: Milei-critical artist has work taken down at Beijing Embassy

04-06-2025 13:00 Dozens of artworks were due to be presented at Argentina’s Embassy in China. Among them was a painting by Verónica Gómez, who in the past incorporated Jaiver Milei and Karina Milei into her art. For that reason, it was ordered to be taken down.

by Juan Luis González

ELECTIONS 2025

Paid militants, tensions, anger at Macri – inside Adorni’s campaign finale

15-05-2025 13:12 Manuel Adorni, heading La Libertad Avanza’s list for the City Legislature elections, accompanied by Javier and Karina Milei, Cabinet ministers and others at his closing campaign rally in Recoleta – but tensions are brewing behind the scenes.

by Giselle Leclercq

Analysing Argentina

The shepherd who lost his country

26-04-2025 05:00 Argentina electing Milei, just as an Argentine was running the Vatican on a unifying message, is as if John Paul II had seen his Polish compatriots vote for a version of Joseph Stalin, rather than Lech Wałęsa.

by Marcelo J. García

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Towards a smarter state

29-03-2025 06:11 The libertarian government seems intent on cutting back a bloated state to its right size without having any clear idea what that size might be.

by Michael Soltys

Milei-Musk

The tale behind Milei’s chainsaw gift for Elon Musk

21-02-2025 17:06 President Javier Milei presents billionaire Elon Musk with a replica of the chainsaw he keeps at the Casa Rosada — how a tool manufacturer found a niche in the libertarian marketplace.

POLITICS

‘Forces of heaven’: Milei loyalists launch ‘armed' libertarian grouping

19-11-2024 17:49 La Libertad Avanza supporters, headed by online troll ‘Gordo Dan,’ government deputies and national officials, stage rally in San Miguel to launch new “armed” wing and "praetorian guard" known as "the forces of heaven."

EDITORIAL

The Wall Street shuffle

28-09-2024 06:27 Milei doubtless imagined that he was ringing his own Liberty Bell but it was also a self-excommunication from the international community which might well send alarm-bells ringing, not least among Wall Street investors.

As I see it

A most illiberal libertarian

07-09-2024 06:06 Is Milei a democrat? Probably not; it is increasingly clear that, by instinct, he is an authoritarian who does not take kindly to even mild criticism.

by James Neilson

LIBERTARIANISM WORLDWIDE

Liberland: the micronation building bridges with Javier Milei

29-06-2024 04:32 Free Republic of Liberland, a micronation between Serbia and Croatia, has yet to receive international recognition, but its self-proclaimed president, Czech libertarian Vít Jedlicka wants to deepen its links with Argentina and Javier Milei.

by Giselle Leclercq

LIBERTARIAN FORUM

President Milei, Elon Musk to speak at libertarian forum in Buenos Aires

11-06-2024 17:07 President Javier Milei and billionaire businessman Elon Musk (by videoconference) to speak at event organised by Fundación Libertad y Progreso and the Cato Institute.

CULTURE WARS

No more CCK – Milei government baptises ‘Palacio Libertad’

07-05-2024 21:39 National government says it will rename the Centro Cultural Kirchner as it moves to “depoliticise” iconic building that once housed Argentina’s Post Office.

As I see it

The Kirchnerites have Milei in their sights

13-01-2024 06:21 The fate of the new government will depend largely on Milei’s ability to persuade people that the fearful emergency he goes on about is not just a figment of an overheated imagination but something terribly real.

by James Neilson

NEW ERA FOR ARGENTINA

Milei and a libertarian’s wet dream

09-12-2023 05:45 Is Milei’s ambitious reform package possible in today’s Argentina? Not only does his La Libertad Avanza coalition lack congressional muscle, but both of its negotiating partners are deeply fragmented, muddying the legislative front.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

IMF DEBT PROGRAMME

Javier Milei may find an unexpected friend in the IMF

21-11-2023 16:43 What will the relationship be like between Javier Milei and the International Monetary Fund, given the impact of Argentina's ongoing US$44-billion loan agreement?

ELECTION 2023: run-off

United States government congratulates Milei on election win

19-11-2023 23:52 The United States congratulated Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei on his election victory Sunday, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken praising the "strong turnout and peaceful conduct of the vote."

ELECTION 2023: REACTION

President-elect Milei vows to end ‘Argentine decadence’ in speech

19-11-2023 22:37 In a victory speech to adoring cheer-filled supporters, Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei on Sunday vowed to begin "the reconstruction of Argentina" and end the country's economic decline.

ELECTION 2023: RUN-OFF

Argentina takes leap into unknown with Javier Milei as president

19-11-2023 21:20 Attention will now turn to how Javier Milei implements his most contested measures with only a handful of representatives in a fragmented congress and an impatient electorate. He will take office December 10.