News of year

A year into office, Milei’s ‘shock’ therapy takes hold

10-12-2024 16:41 President Javier Milei marks his first year in office Tuesday and intends to celebrate his government's achievements in a national broadcast later this evening.

Key measures from Milei’s first year in office

10-12-2024 09:57 President’s first year in office was marked by drastic state cutbacks, the sharpest rise in poverty in two decades, an aggressive rhetoric and notable shift in foreign policy.

The year of the lion

07-12-2024 06:17 Milei’s first year in office has seen much more grey than its inflamed and somewhat arbitrary crusade against the “caste” of drab democratic politics would care to admit.

Milei’s self-congratulatory maiden year

07-12-2024 00:36 A year in, Milei is surfing the wave of popularity, feeling invincible as he receives the constant attention of the international media, which in turn feeds his ego even further.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

60-year-old Miss Universe hopeful challenges age-old beauty norms

25-04-2024 16:26 Sixty-year-old Alejandra Rodríguez, from La Plata, hopes to compete in the Miss Universe pageant that will take place in Mexico City later this year – but first, she needs to win Argentina's domestic crown.

Protests, strikes, unions 'on alert’: unrest against Milei's government grows

23-02-2024 07:26 Javier Milei is moving forward with steep spending cuts in a bid to achieve fiscal balance, but sectors are showing their reluctance – social and labour unrest on the rise. Just 75 days into his term in office, pressure on the president is growing.

2023 - The year that was

31-12-2023 08:22 Economic unrest, never-ending price hikes, never-ending drought, devaluations, Alberto absent and often abroad (even Maximo in China), Cecilia Strzyzowski, re-enter Macri and ‘Toto’ Caputo, backstabbing and scheming, opposition infighting, Berni actually beaten up, scandals about ‘Chocolate’ and yachts in Marbella, Massa wins then loses, Milei goes from playing his ‘la casta’ hit to ‘cacerolazos’ in weeks, the appearances of Tucker Carlson, Taylor Swift, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the election that immediately delivered change… just another year in Argentina.

by Michael Soltys

An electoral 2023 ends... and an electric 2024 begins

31-12-2023 08:14 The standard greeting of “Happy New Year” would represent wishful thinking rather than any real expectations when it comes to 2024, as President Javier Milei would be the first to insist.

Lanús: 11-year-old girl dies after being robbed on way to school

09-08-2023 13:23 Insecurity rises to fore in final days of campaigning for PASO primaries; 11-year-old girl dies from injuries sustained in robbery by two motorcycle thieves while walking to school.

Verdict due in trial for horrific killing of five-year-old Lucio Dupuy

31-01-2023 14:20 Late child’s mother and partner in the dock for gruesome killing of Lucio Dupuy; Prosecutors have accused both of aggravated homicide and repeated acts of sexual abuse; Duo face life imprisonment if convicted, verdict due on Thursday.