News of peron

Distaff dismantled

08-03-2025 06:00 Female suffrage arrived in Argentina in 1947 with Law 13,010, more commonly known as the “Ley Evita” after Eva Perón who announced it in person, with women voting for the first time in the 1951 elections.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Chau Evita? Milei officials eye demolition of iconic BA building

21-11-2024 19:29 Evita must be trembling in heaven – President Javier Milei’s government is evaluating the future of an iconic building on Avenida 9 de Julio. Will the site, once home to state ministries, face the libertarian chainsaw?

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Juan Donaldo moving from Pink to White House?

16-11-2024 05:59 Javier Milei might be The Donald’s “favourite president” yet Trump’s campaign rhetoric would seem to be on a collision course with the Argentine’s track record after almost a year in office.

by Michael Soltys

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Andrés ‘Cuervo’ Larroque ‘We are in one of the deepest crises in Peronism’s history’

19-07-2024 06:17 Andrés Larroque, Community Development minister for Buenos Aires Province, reflects on the crisis facing Peronism, his links to La Cámpora and President Javier Milei’s government.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS

Milei’s request to use ‘Perón’s Cadillac’ for inauguration knocked back

06-12-2023 17:19 Javier Milei wanted to use a famous Cadillac commissioned by Juan Domingo Perón for his presidential inauguration, but his request was knocked back.

by Leonardo Torresi

Election 2023

Peronism: Argentina's eternal political mystery

19-10-2023 16:04 Struggling to avoid a historic reverse in Sunday’s election, the forces of Peronism are looking to extend their historical dominance of national politics.

GUEST COLUMN

Milei and Perón: one heart?

30-09-2023 05:11 Some suggestive parallels can be drawn between the phenomena embodied in the figures of Juan Domingo Perón and Javier Gerardo Milei.

As I see it

Presidential candidates remain neck-and-neck

28-07-2023 21:09 If the coming crunch is as painful as some predict, will it be enough to make the entrenched political elite decide that the time has come for whoever is in power to apply policies that have worked well enough elsewhere?

by James Neilson