News of row

Teachers at state universities call 24-hour strike after veto vote

09-10-2024 18:13 Frente Sindical Universitario announces state universities will be hit with strike action on Thursday in wake of congressional backing of President Milei's veto.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Deputies back Milei’s veto of university funding bill

09-10-2024 15:43 Javier Milei’s government manages to shield his veto of the University Funding Law; Opposition fails to obtain the two-thirds needed to overthrow the President’s decision.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

IMF official steps back from Argentina talks in feud with Milei

12-09-2024 13:34 IMF's top negotiator with Argentina delegates talks to colleagues after drawing the ire of President Javier Milei.

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.

BILATERAL RELATIONS

Milei refuses to apologise to Lula and his ‘inflamed ego’

28-06-2024 14:02 President Javier Milei says he won't apologise to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, branding him a"lefty" with an "inflamed ego.”

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Brazil's Lula waiting for apology from Milei for talking 'nonsense'

26-06-2024 13:01 Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will not speak with Javier Milei until Argentina's President apologises to him for the "nonsense" said previously.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Milei already making waves in Spain, even ahead of second visit

20-06-2024 15:23 This Friday’s trip to Spain by President Javier Milei is already generating pushback from the government in Madrid.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Milei calls Spanish PM Sánchez 'laughing stock of Europe'

24-05-2024 09:28 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez "is the laughing stock of Europe in diplomatic matters," declares President Milei in TV interview.

ANALYSIS

Argentina has really fallen out with its number two foreign investor

22-05-2024 17:48 The reason why the two sides haven’t buried the hatchet probably comes down to two leaders who stand at opposite sides of the political spectrum and are happy and sufficiently media-savvy to know how to use this drama as a distraction from their problems back home.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Spain PM Sánchez defends wife after Milei's 'corrupt' jibe

22-05-2024 13:37 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez defends his wife against graft allegations, just days after President Javier Milei escalated a diplomatic row by calling her "corrupt."

FOREIGN POLICY

Milei's diplomacy pulls no punches with left-wing leaders

21-05-2024 11:05 Critics say Milei is focused on prioritising diplomatic connections with fellow right-wingers – while lashing out with an undiplomatic tenor at the rest of the world's leaders, to the detriment of Argentine foreign policy.

DIPLOMATIC ROW

Diplomatic crisis deepens as Spain 'definitively' pulls out Argentina envoy

21-05-2024 10:55 President Javier Milei slams Spain's "absurd" decision to pull its ambassador from Buenos Aires in the midst of a diplomatic spat.

DIPLOMATIC ROW

Milei refuses to back down as Spain demands public apology

20-05-2024 11:42 Spain demands "public apology" from Javier Milei for calling Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife "corrupt," but Argentina's President refuses to back down.

DIPLOMATIC ROW

Milei visit to far-right rally prompts harsh Spanish rebuke

20-05-2024 09:24 Spain’s Socialist government demands an apology from President Javier Milei, saying the libertarian leader’s comments at a far-right rally in Madrid have badly damaged relations.

Diplomatic row explodes

Spain recalls its ambassador to Argentina over Milei 'insult'

19-05-2024 21:07 Spain recalls ambassador from Buenos Aires after President Javier Milei, speaking at a far-right gathering in Madrid, brands Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife "corrupt."

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.

DIPLOMATIC ROW

Spain slams Milei's claim that PM Sánchez is delivering 'poverty and death'

04-05-2024 10:51 Leaders of Argentina and Spain caught in war of words; Government in Madrid rejects claims from President Milei's office that PM Sánchez is delivering "poverty and death" – a response to slurs of drug use.

DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY

Colombian ambassador to return to Argentina after Milei-Petro row

01-04-2024 09:26 Foreign ministries of Colombia and Argentina put presidential row aside and announce normalisation of relations and future visit of Foreign Minister Diana Mondino to Bogotá.

DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY

Mondino denies relations with Colombia are broken amid row

29-03-2024 20:31 Foreign Minister Diana Mondino says "relations with Colombia have not been broken," despite the ongoing row between President Javier Milei and his counterpart in Bogotá, Gustavo Petro.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Colombia recalls ambassador in Buenos Aires amid Milei-Petro row

27-01-2024 09:34 Bogotá recalls its ambassador to Argentina after President Javier Milei brands his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro a "murderous communist" in an interview.

REVENUE-SHARING ROW

Alberto Fernández now says he’ll comply with top court order

26-12-2022 14:00 Days after saying he would not comply with a Supreme Court order that called for it to return federal funds to the Buenos Aires City government, President Alberto Fernández says will he honour the decision.