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New Carlos Menem series hits the small screen

09-07-2025 17:09 Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service premieres new series about Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem, who led the nation from 1989 to 1999, on Independence Day.

POLITICS

Scandal in Congress: Kirchnerite, libertarian deputies row ends session

03-07-2025 19:02 Chamber of Deputies session ends early with pushing and shoving between La Libertad Avanza and Kirchnerite legislators.

DECLASSIFICATION DRIVE

Argentina opens up secret Nazi fugitive files to public

28-04-2025 12:19 On orders of President Javier Milei, General Archive of the Nation releases 1,850 files on activities of Nazi fugitives in Argentina; Files, now accessible to the public online, include details of banking operations, intelligence reports and more.

GUEST COLUMN

Malaysia’s capital control (cepo) success – a journey beginning in Buenos Aires

19-04-2025 06:03 Malaysia’s success highlights the importance of policy credibility, clarity of purpose and exit strategy in the use of capital controls.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

The Ides of March

15-03-2025 07:21 While conspiracy theories are wildly fashionable in today’s world, accidents can also happen.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Scandal as La Libertad Avanza deputies come to blows in Congress

14-03-2025 00:01 Fistfight between ruling party deputies Oscar Zago and Lisandro Almirón after the latter accused the former of treason by granting quorum brought the session to an abrupt halt.

‘CRYPTOGATE’ SCANDAL

Investigation to probe Milei’s conduct over 'cryptogate'

17-02-2025 15:34 Judge María Servini assigned probe into President’s conduct in launch of ‘$LIBRA’ cryptocurrency; Government announces its own investigation into scandal.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Carnal relations and the forces of heaven

01-02-2025 06:05 The Menem Presidency was the closest thing to providing a template for the disruptive novelty of Milei’s administration but the return of Trump to the White House invites new comparisons.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS

Karina Milei fancies midterms clash against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

15-01-2025 15:29 Rumour mill cranks into overdrive as talk of midterms showdown between president’s sister and former head of state in Buenos Aires Province ramps up; La Libertad Avanza Senator Sebastián Pareja and Lower House Speaker Martín Menem among those pushing for a Karina candidacy.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Milei, Reagan and the 20% enemy rule

21-12-2024 05:07 President Milei seems to be inverting Ronald Reagan’s equation – as in, disagree 20 percent of the time with me, and you are 80 percent my enemy.

by Marcelo J. García

CONGRESS & POLITICS

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

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.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Is there life after presidency?

10-08-2024 05:12 If vice-presidents have historically been a pebble in the shoe for heads of state, ex-presidents have also been a factor worthy of mention.

by Michael Soltys

HUMAN RIGHTS

IACHR holds Argentina responsible for for failings over AMIA attack

14-06-2024 17:07 Top human rights court deems Argentine state responsible for not preventing, nor properly investigating, the lethal 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre.

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

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.

CRIME & SECURITY

Islamic association decries vandalism of Carlos Menem Sr and Jr tombs

16-02-2024 10:05 Tombs of former president Carlos Menem and his son Carlos Jr vandalised along with 100 other graves at the Buenos Aires Islamic Cemetery.

A WALK THROUGH HISTORY

How Argentina arrived to 40 years of democracy

09-12-2023 09:31 From Raúl Alfonsín to Alberto Fernández, a breathless, compressed account of how Argentina traversed four decades of democracy.

by Michael Soltys

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;