News of provinces argentina

The colour purple

Yesterday 06:10 Despite governing the province for 34 of the last 42 years, the Peronists ran up a hat-trick of national midterm defeats there last Sunday – in 2017, in 2021 and in 2025.

by Michael Soltys

Currency & markets

Peso to get boost from post-election debt sales rush

29-10-2025 17:10 Argentine provinces and companies are lining up to tap global markets in the next few weeks, opening a window of debt sales.

ELECTIONS 2025

Milei turns Argentina's electoral map purple: provincial breakdown of results

27-10-2025 17:28 La Libertad Avanza won in the provinces with the most electoral weight and secured a clear national victory.

ELECTION 2025

Electoral authorities say midterm results must be released by district

22-10-2025 13:37 Milei’s government bid to have results combined in a national count shot down; National Electoral Appeals Court has rules that provisional count should be province by province.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Trump card or joker in the pack?

18-10-2025 06:15 Milei’s government is confident of success in only seven of Argentina's 24 districts but this fails to point out that fears of defeat are also only limited to seven provinces, with the other 10 up in the air.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Triple setback for Milei as Congress rejects vetoes

19-09-2025 00:21 Ruling party’s weakness in both chambers on full display; Overwhelmingly majority of senators reject striking down of ATN Treasury contributions bill, day after lower house lawmakers reversed vetoes on paediatric emergency and state universities.

CONSUMER PRICES

Cost of full shopping trolley up to 11% more expensive in south

20-08-2025 11:05 Breakdown of consumer prices undertaken by the Analytica consultancy firm showed that food is at its most expensive in Patagonia.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Peronist list closure: unity, local names, strategy of division

11-08-2025 17:50 In half of Argentina's provinces, the Fuerza Patria banner managed to bind all the Peronist options together, but in other territories unity will have a different name.

Campaign comments

The autumn of the patriarch

05-07-2025 07:19 Gildo Insfrán’s power stems from the provincial government being by far Formosa’s biggest employer with less than six percent of the workforce having formal jobs in the private sector, boosted by shameless patronage.

by Michael Soltys

DEBT & BONDS

Córdoba Province sells US$725 million of debt abroad

27-06-2025 13:51 Cordoba Province taps investors in the first international debt sale by a local government since President Javier Milei took office.

MILEI’S AUSTERITY MEASURES

Six provinces demand over US$9 billion from national government

26-05-2025 14:58 Provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, La Rioja, Formosa, Santiago del Estero and Santa Fe – mostly all opposition controlled – are demanding US$9.376 billion in outstanding debt from President Javier Milei’s government.

by Gonzalo Martínez

TIERRA DEL FUEGO

Patagonian province on war footing over Milei’s threat to industry

22-05-2025 16:06 Residents of the far-south province of Tierra del Fuego are fighting to save their jobs after President Milei delivered a blow to its local manufacturing activity.

EDUCATION

Literacy crisis: Less than half of kids under nine meet reading standards

07-05-2025 11:00 Argentina’s Education Secretariat publishes first results from Aprender assessment under Milei administration. Provinces of Formosa and Córdoba achieved strongest results, Chaco at bottom of ranking.

POLITICS

Chaco and Milei’s electoral strategy for October

15-03-2025 07:36 Chaco shows that Milei is willing to seal alliances with the local political establishment — a.k.a. “the caste” — as it best suits them. And the Casa Rosada has leverage in this negotiation with the governors: cash.

by Marcelo J. García

NEW DEBT ISSUANCE

Provinces eye debt sales as economic optimism mounts

19-02-2025 15:30 Buenos Aires City— which oversaw a failed debt tender offer toward the end of 2024 — and Córdoba Province are each mulling the sale of around US$500 million of bonds between March and May

ENVIRONMENT

Hundreds of homes evacuated as Patagonia fires spread

16-01-2025 14:49 Forest fires in Patagonia force evacuation of 200 families, destroying some 2,000 hectares of terrain in the town of Epuyén.

DEBT WOES

La Rioja creditors win US$40 million in NY court over bond spat

12-09-2024 16:29 US judge orders La Rioja Province to pay creditors nearly US$40 million in damages.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Report: Argentina has lost 142,000 jobs since last October

31-08-2024 06:06 While some regions manage to stay afloat thanks to investment in key sectors, others are in a deep crisis due to the fall of consumption.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Milei talks unity but shows up division with ‘symbolic’ pact

09-07-2024 15:52 President Javier Milei hails “symbolic of a change in era” as he inks his ‘Pacto de Mayo’ with 18 regional leaders at midnight ceremony in Tucumán. But amid a patriotic show of unity, his tone and absences highlight division.

by James Grainger

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Gulliver Milei needs to engage with the Lilliputians

25-05-2024 06:23 Even the Lilliputians in Jonathan Swift’s 'Gulliver’s Travels' were clever enough to feed their giant alien visitor before using him for their own advantage.

by Marcelo J. García

STATE NEWS AGENCY

Milei government shutters Télam's provincial outposts

05-05-2024 16:27 Government moves ahead with "operational closure of correspondents" in 11 of the 23 provinces nationwideand the capital where the state news agency operates.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Juntos por el Cambio governors to back ‘omnibus’ bill, fiscal package

04-04-2024 21:35 Interior Minister Guillermo Francos and Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse lead talks over the so-called ‘Ley de Bases,’ potentially brokering a deal to see its passage through Congress.

EDITORIAL

Pouring oil on the flames

02-03-2024 05:57 If the spark that lit the fire was the threat of Chubut’s PRO Governor Ignacio Torres to cut off all oil and gas unless the cutbacks were reversed, this might appear a wild outburst – but it was less random and accidental than it might seem.

POLITICS

Milei’s bold decree teeters as Argentina's provinces resist

27-02-2024 19:21 Growing opposition to President Javier Milei’s sweeping decree in the Senate puts it at risk of being overturned as regular sessions get underway next week.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Method in his madness?

25-11-2023 14:16 Javier Milei’s solitary rise to the top from almost nowhere in a couple of years is more apparent than real. The key to this success is more like the solution to Agatha Christie’s 'Murder on the Orient Express' – they all did it.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS

The new political configuration for 2024

07-11-2023 13:53 Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will seek refuge in a new foundation after the implosion of Juntos por el Cambio. Opposition governors, observing as the opposition implodes, are strengthening their regional power bases in time for negotiations with the next president.

by Rodis Recalt