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Government calls extraordinary sessions – but no budget bill

05-12-2024 18:42 As confirmed by Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni, detailing that political and electoral reform and the anti-mafia law would be included, among other issues.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Budget clash, extra sessions, Speaker Menem – Milei’s first year in Congress

04-12-2024 17:39 Despite being firmly in the minority, Milei has managed to amend over 100 laws since taking office and advance his programme of fiscal austerity. Nevertheless, tensions with allies and opposition persist, centred on the 2025 Budget, anti-graft laws and electoral reform.

by Facundo Maceira

DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS

Islamic group accuses Milei government of ‘censorship’ in TV show row

28-11-2024 13:34 Islamic civil association accuses President Javier Milei’s government of censorship as its weekly TV Pública show on faith, 'El Cálamo,' is taken off-air; NGO links move to Argentina’s political alignment with Israel.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

President targets rivals as he confirms he will veto university law

02-10-2024 20:22 President responds to mass demonstration in favour of state universities by confirming he will veto new law; Head of state ramps up rhetoric, namechecking rivals and accusing them of forming “new populist left front.”

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

28-09-2024 06:05 The Unión Cívica Radical crisis perhaps stems from standing or falling from being the men in the middle in many senses – representing a middle class facing extinction and a middle ground squeezed out by polarisation.

by Michael Soltys

THE ECONOMY OF SPORT

New F1 driver Colapinto shows off power of Argentina's 'unicorns'

02-09-2024 14:59 Two of Argentina's largest 'unicorns,' Globant and Mercado Libre, are part of the economic structure backing Franco Colpinto, the 21-year-old Williams Racing Formula 1 driver.

by Agustín Colombo

SOCIETY

Incarcerated reap benefits of in-prison university education scheme

31-08-2024 06:08 University education programmes in prisons deliver inmates a brighter future and help reduce recidivism. Journalist Jesús Cabral is just one who has reaped the rewards of the innovative CUSAM in-prison education project. “I’ve had many moments of crisis since I got out, but I haven’t reofferend,” he explains.

by Josefina Salomon

Congress & Politics

Milei clashes with Senate over pensions, vows to veto increase

23-08-2024 14:27 President Javier Milei announced Friday he will veto pension increases approved by the Senate the previous day, branding those who voted for the boost "fiscal degenerates."

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Yelling, complaints, expulsion threats – crisis erupts in La Libertad Avanza

22-08-2024 15:45 Ruling party’s lower house caucus thrust into chaos as furious shouting draws attention; La Libertad Avanza deputy insulted by party colleagues for having presented a criminal denunciation of lawmakers’ recent visit to dictatorship-era criminals jailed at Ezeiza prison.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Blow for Milei: Opposition teams up with PRO to block intelligence funds

21-08-2024 23:05 In a heavy blow for the Milei government, deputies in lower house repeal decree assigning over 100 billion pesos “to boost the national intelligence system” by 156-52 vote with six abstentions.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Liberating the Liberator

17-08-2024 06:31 Today is the 174th anniversary of the death of independence hero José de San Martín – but he has become so frozen in marble that his humanity escapes our grasp.

by Michael Soltys

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

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

INSAURRALDE AFFAIR

Model at heart of Insaurralde graft scandal seeks dismissal of charges

19-07-2024 16:16 The model, who joined ex-Buenos Aires Province Cabinet chief Martín Insaurralde on controversial trip to Marbella, testified that she is usually asked “to go on trips abroad” and mentioned the ILO regulation on prostitution.

POLITICS

Menem signs resolution for 80% hike in expenses for national deputies

04-06-2024 17:35 To be paid in three instalments, the hike will lift sitting lawmakers' salaries to more than 2.2 million pesos a month.

POLITICS

‘Gran Fiesta Patria’ – Milei heads to Córdoba without his ‘Pacto de Mayo’

21-05-2024 21:12 Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni and Córdoba provincial government confirms Governor Martín Llaryora has made “everything necessary” available for head of state – but Javier Milei will not be inking his proposed ‘Pacto de 25 de Mayo’ on Saturday.

by Juan Bernaus

FOOTBALL

River Plate secure qualification for 2025 Club World Cup

15-05-2024 15:57 Qualification for Copa Libertadores last 16 secures place at 2025 tournament in United States and a US$40-million windfall; River’s former manager Marcelo Gallardo sacked by Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad – is he off to Italy?

by James Grainger

BREAKING NEWS

At least 30 people hospitalised after trains collide in Buenos Aires

10-05-2024 11:28 Emergency services and police on site after two trains collide in Palermo; At least 30 people transported to hospital in wake of crash, but no fatalities reported.

Bloomberg

Tech giant with 30,000 employees has no return-to-office policy

12-04-2024 14:17 Software company Globant SA’s sleek office in downtown Buenos Aires are quite the attraction, but Chief Executive Officer Martin Migoya is choosing not to adopt a return-to-office policy for his nearly 30,000 employees across 33 countries.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

06-04-2024 06:09 Senator and UCR chair on why the mega DNU emergency decree was unconstitutional, President Milei’s economic plan and Radical renewal.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS

Menem, Villarruel agree to increase lawmakers' pay by 30%

08-03-2024 18:20 President Javier Milei says he is against move, declaring that “a lot of people are a lot worse off with a lot less money.”

POLITICS

Amid anger at pay hikes, Milei trolls feminists on #8M

08-03-2024 12:42 Following controversy over lawmakers' pay hikes, President Javier Milei’s administration trolls feminist campaigners on International Women’s Day by announcing it will rename the Casa Rosada’s “Salón de las Mujeres.”

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Martín Menem defends decision to hire 23-year-old nephew for Congress job

05-03-2024 14:24 Lower House Speaker Martín Menem (La Libertad Avanza) defends decision to appoint 23-year-old 'once-removed' nephew to lush Congress job reported to pay two million pesos a month.

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.

PRICE HIKES SLOWING?

Celebrations, misgivings as politicians react to inflation data

14-02-2024 22:33 Government allies cheer latest INDEC data showing that consumer price hikes slowed to around 20% last month, while Peronist critics warn of spiralling consumer prices.

DOLLARISATION ON THE CARDS?

How is Milei’s plan to dollarise Argentina progressing?

15-01-2024 13:17 La Libertad Avanza’s predominant campaign topic has made a strong comeback – a recent report by JP Morgan warned that dollarisation in Argentina might fail, even if the necessary dollars are obtained, and former economy minister Martín Guzmán says that the process "has already begun."

by Agustina Bordigoni

ANALYSIS

‘Unconstitutional’ – Experts, critics slam Milei’s massive reform plan

21-12-2023 23:21 Leading experts slam President Javier Milei’s bid to enforce sweeping change by decree.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Platense, Rosario Central head to scorching Santiago del Estero for final

14-12-2023 15:11 Santiago del Estero possesses a fantastic-looking, shiny new stadium, and it is in the Madre de Ciudades that the unlikely duo of Platense and Rosario Central face off in the final of the Copa de la Liga this Saturday.

by Dan Edwards

Football in Argentina

Football briefly rears its head amid off-field scheming

08-12-2023 08:38 The action keeps on coming – the acrimonious battle for control of Boca remains in the spotlight, but Copa Liga play-offs and promotion clashes draw the eye back to the pitch.

by Dan Edwards

POLITICS

Milei’s team for Congress: Menem for lower house, Paoltroni in Senate

04-12-2023 18:00 Heads of lower and upper houses will be libertarians “following democratic tradition of last 40 years,” says president-elect’s office;

BUSINESS

Globant beefs up creative operations by purchasing ad firm GUT

28-11-2023 11:12 Argentine software firm Globant SA purchased a majority stake in creative agency GUT as it ups its bet on marketing services as a key growth driver.

OP-ED

Ireland deepens relations with Latin America and the Caribbean

25-11-2023 10:26 The Irish commitment to step up our engagement with the Latin America and the Caribbean region has been backed by the EU’s commitment to do the same.

'Yachtgate' scandal

Almost US$600,000 seized by police from Sofía Clerici’s home

24-10-2023 16:51 US$569,700 confiscated by Federal Police from the home of model Sofía Clerici at the upmarket neighbourhood of Nordelta in the framework of the money-laundering and embezzlement case.

Election 2023

Airing the dirty laundry of Argentina’s political caste

13-10-2023 11:27 As we get closer to the general election there could be a few more surprises of the smear campaign machine, so hold onto your hats.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ELECTION 2023: ANALYSIS

Insaurralde, Milei, Melconian and the dirty campaign

12-10-2023 14:46 We’re into the tortuous last stretch of the campaign and political operations are underway.

by Javier Calvo

as i see it

Corruption as a way of life

07-10-2023 06:55 In Argentina, there are thousands of men and women who, like Martín Insaurralde, have grown accustomed to milking the country’s political institutions.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Of dirty money and ‘dirty wars’

07-10-2023 06:40 With corruption being rubbed in its face by Insaurralde’s Marbella yacht jaunt and with the ballot-box in only a fortnight’s time as a readymade outlet, how will the citizenry react?

The Insaurralde affair

The caste in all its glory

07-10-2023 06:18 The 'Yachtgate' scandal connects directly with the ‘Chocolate’ case, which apparently ropes in the whole of the political underworld of the Province of Buenos Aires, including associates related to Massa, Unión por la Patria and Juntos por el Cambio. And what about Milei?

by Agustino Fontevecchia

'Yachtgate' scandal

Insaurralde: Have lords of gambling lost their provincial ‘croupier’?

07-10-2023 06:18 Martín Insaurralde’s exit as Cabinet chief in Buenos Aires Province has also created a vacuum in the world of the unwritten rules of the gambling business.

'YACHTGATE' SCANDAL

The power of gambling: Insaurralde’s fall a body blow to bingo circles

07-10-2023 06:07 Betting kingpins fear that their well-oiled mechanisms with Lottery chief Omar Galdurralde, who responds to the Lomas boss, will collapse. Why Axel Kicillof accepted him in his Cabinet.

by Ramón Indart

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: September 30 to October 6

07-10-2023 01:21 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

CORRUPTION SCANDAL

First post-Insaurralde scandal poll shows impact on Unión por la Patria vote

05-10-2023 18:32 Opinion poll measuring the impact of the scandal provoked by the luxurious trip taken by Martín Insaurralde and Sofía Clerici delivers bad news for government.

by Julian D'Imperio

ELECTION 2023

Grindetti seeks 90 municipalities in battle for Buenos Aires Province

05-10-2023 16:37 Juntos por el Cambio’s candidate to be next governor of Buenos Aires Province explores a new strategy to try to defeat Axel Kicillof.

by Ezequiel Spillman

YACHTGATE SCANDAL

Alberto Fernández: Insaurralde case offends decent people

04-10-2023 18:52 Head of state praises Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof and Economy Minister Sergio Massa response to scandal, but says affair "hurts many decent people who live an austere life."

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Prosecutor charges Martín Insaurralde with money-laundering

04-10-2023 13:31 Lomas de Zamora federal prosecutor Sergio Mola has charged former Buenos Aires Province Cabinet Chief Martín Insaurralde with presumed money-laundering while calling for a lien to be slapped on his assets.

CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

Top Buenos Aires Province official resigns amid luxury trip scandal

02-10-2023 15:48 Buenos Aires Province Cabinet Chief Martín Insaurralde, running for councillor in Lomas de Zamora in October elections, resigns post and candidacy in scandal; Kirchnerite leader's girlfriend Sofía Clérici posts images from luxury trip online, prompting corruption allegations and criminal complaints.

SAN MARTÍN DE LOS ANDES

Four soldiers killed, 18 injured as Army truck overturns in Patagonia

21-09-2023 23:30 Driver loses control of Argentine Army truck travelling along Route 62 near San Martin de los Andes; For reasons that are still under investigation, military vehicle overturned and derailed, falling from a height of 10 metres down a ravine.

ELECTION 2023: CITY PRIMARIES

Jorge Macri sees off Lousteau in battle for City mayor

13-08-2023 21:52 Juntos por el Cambio produces dominant performance in nation's capital, taking almost 56% of all votes; PRO's Jorge Macri defeats Radical Senator Martín Lousteau by a small margin to win nomination; Ruling coalition hopeful Leandro Santoro trails in third.

by James Grainger

artificial intelligence

Globant to invest US$1 billion on AI expansion in Latin America

10-08-2023 15:15 Software company Globant SA plans to invest US$1 billion in building out its artificial intelligence operations in Latin America.

Economy

Argentina’s IMF deal is just one hurdle to Massa’s presidential bid

01-08-2023 16:17 Sergio Massa's IMF deal may offer hope for his presidential ambitions, but the divided opposition and economic challenges pose significant hurdles in the upcoming primaries and elections in Argentina.