News of private

Milei's private dinners, cash and political transparency

07-04-2025 11:09 What's at stake in a US$20,000-steaks case...

Milei charged executives US$20,000 for private dinners as he ran for president

01-04-2025 11:59 Executives bought access to Argentina’s rising political star; Milei likened the dinners to the consulting work he used to do.

‘ROUTINE PROCEDURE’?

Questions asked of Milei over private jet’s arrival

12-03-2025 13:54 National government responds to journalistic report alleging order was given that private jet on which CPAC-linked US citizen travelled to Buenos Aires should not be inspected.

Football in Argentina

Estudiantes embark on spending spree with US billionaire’s support

09-01-2025 21:23 Estudiantes have arrived to shake up the hornets’ nest with a series of audacious transfer bids, bankrolled by billionaire US national Foster Gillett, in a financial offensive which has dragged the conflict around private ownership of clubs back onto the agenda.

by Dan Edwards

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT

Argentina’s Aconcagua eyes global bond market, foray into shale

17-12-2024 15:23 Oil driller Petrolera Aconcagua Energia SA is looking to sell an international bond, swooping into an opening for Argentine energy corporates that’s materialised with President Javier Milei’s free-market reforms.

EDITORIAL

Making public private

07-09-2024 05:55 Not the first contradiction with its self-image but a government calling itself libertarian and seeking to restrict access to public information is really starting to take the biscuit.

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

Court blocks Milei’s privatisation plan for Argentina’s football clubs

04-09-2024 15:20 President’s decree forcing football governing body AFA to accept private capital into nation’s football clubs blocked by injunction until definitive ruling issued by courts.

SPORTS OWNERSHIP BATTLE

Milei orders AFA football authorities to accept privately owned clubs

15-08-2024 13:50 New government decree signed by Javier Milei advances move to introduce private limited companies into the local football ecosystem; President gives AFA, federations and clubs one year to change statutes and allow "sporting corporations" into league pyramid.

LABOUR TENSIONS

Argentina’s union calls strike, to affect Vaca Muerta production

16-06-2024 08:39 The Union of Private Oil and Gas Workers says it will hold a 48-hour strike starting Tuesday.

INTERVIEW WITH WORLDCOIN BOSS

Alex Blania: ‘In the next few years, thousands of humans will fall deeply in love with an AI’

10-05-2024 12:51 The CEO of Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, on technology and ethics, Artificial Intelligence and the use of private data.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ENERGY & GAS

Power producers seek better terms for US$2-billion Argentina debt

08-05-2024 15:46 Privately-run power producers Pampa Energía SA and Central Puerto SA will reject the government's current offer to settle a US$2-billion debt.

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Government intervenes to halt private health scheme price surge

17-04-2024 17:21 Free-market Milei administration uses state power to challenge firms and announces most prepaid health schemes are rolling back runaway price increases; "The Argentina of wise guys is over," declares presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni.

HEALTHCARE & ECONOMY

Private health firms: Caputo complains of 'war on middle class'

09-04-2024 16:19 Economy Minister Luis Caputo accuses ‘pre-pagas’ of declaring war on customers as government sources say investigation into price-fixing claims is underway; Firms seek urgent meeting with officials.

Bloomberg

US Treasury Secretary Yellen praises Chile’s policies in visit to lithium-rich ally

01-03-2024 16:42 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday lavished praise on Chile during a visit focused on critical minerals.

GRIPPED BY CRISIS

In danger of extinction? Middle class slammed by crisis and austerity measures

16-01-2024 17:16 The removal of subsidies, rising rent and the increased costs of prepaid healthcare schemes and private schools are slamming the middle class, specialists warn. March will be a difficult month with the start of classes and the billing of basic public services shooting up.

by Agustina Bordigoni

EDUCATION

Lack of classroom days behind drive to private schooling, says polling

03-08-2023 06:15 New survey provides X-ray of Argentina’s education system and reveals teacher strikes are among, main motives for those choosing private education. Women, especially those with lower purchasing-power and living in Greater Buenos Aires, are the most concerned about lost days of classes, with the school syllabus one of the biggest worries.

by Sabrina Chemen

NEW REPORT

Report: Public employment up 34% in Argentina since 2011, private only 3%

05-07-2023 12:32 New report by IERAL, business school of the Fundación Mediterránea think tank, shows a massive imbalance between the growth of public and private sector jobs in Argentina. Only province in which private-sector jobs grew faster was Neuquén, thanks to Vaca Muerta. Córdoba recruited the fewest state employees.

Lithium in Latin America

Chile set to lose ground in global lithium rankings to Argentina

30-05-2023 21:54 Chile, the second-largest supplier of lithium, expects to lose more market share to Australia and Argentina over the next decade.

CHILE HEALTH

Chile government says private health insurers owe US$1.4 billion in overcharges

11-05-2023 15:04 Chile’s government confirmed that private health insurance companies will have to pay about US$1.4 billion to abide by a 2022 Supreme Court ruling, confirming the worst-case scenario for an industry near collapse.