Argentine pensioners clashed with police in the capital Buenos Aires this week, after protests broke out over President Javier Milei’s plan to veto a bill passed by congress to raise the minimum pension amount, the BBC reported. On Wednesday, demonstrators marched across the city, calling for...
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Argentine authorities have accused former President Alberto Fernández of physically and psychologically abusing his former partner and former First Lady Fabiola Yáñez during his term in office, a case that has sparked outrage in the Latin American nation, the New York Times reported. Last week, prosecutors...
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Argentina declassified a confidential intelligence report from 2003 this week that provided new insights into Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, MercoPress reported. Released Wednesday, the report detailed the roles of key figures, including then-Iranian cultural attaché Moshen...
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Argentine President Javier Milei secured his first legislative win Thursday after the parliament’s upper house narrowly approved a package of free-market reforms and fiscal measures aimed at reviving the country’s struggling economy, the Wall Street Journal reported. The package – passed after hours of debate and...
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Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets this week in the largest protests since President Javier Milei came to power, criticizing the libertarian leader’s funding cuts to the country’s public universities as part of a string of austerity measures, Reuters reported. Students and professors...
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Thousands of Argentines on Sunday took part in an annual commemoration of the 1976 military coup that led to eight years of repression and thousands of deaths, while protesting President Javier Milei’s downplaying of the damage caused by the dictatorship, Reuters reported. The “Day of Remembrance...
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The Argentine government suspended the Telam state news agency this week, part of a plan by libertarian President Javier Milei to shutter the 80-year-old agency that he deems to be a mouthpiece of “propaganda” for prior leftist administrations, Agence France-Presse reported. Officials said Monday they were...
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Labor unions took to the streets a few weeks ago in Argentina to oppose recently elected President Javier Milei’s libertarian plans to adopt the US dollar as the country’s official currency while radically shrinking government spending. It’s the president’s first big test despite only having been...
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Thousands of Argentinian workers took part in a nationwide strike against President Javier Milei’s divisive economic reforms Wednesday, in what is being called the first test for the new leader and his “shock therapy” plan to lift Argentina out of a deep economic crisis, CNBC...
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An Argentine court this week suspended a series of labor law changes decreed by newly-elected President Javier Milei, reforms that are part of the “shock” therapy the libertarian leader seeks to implement to improve Argentina’s deep economic crisis, Agence France-Presse reported. Last month, Milei issued an...
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Libertarian Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential runoff Sunday by a landslide, a victory that could cause a major shake-up in the South American country’s economy amid soaring inflation and rising poverty, CBS News reported. With nearly all the votes counted, Milei secured almost 56 percent of...
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Argentina is headed for a presidential runoff after the two top vote-getters – the economy minister and a right-wing legislator – failed to garner enough support to win the election outright, the BBC reported Monday. The favorite, Javier Milei, a brash libertarian congressman who rallied young...
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Argentina’s financial markets reeled in August after presidential candidate Javier Milei won the largest share in the primary election – 30 percent – on a platform of radically cutting spending and using the American currency in place of the Argentine peso, a practice that Ecuador,...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated a former Argentine detention center as a world heritage site this week, a decision seen as significant to remembering human rights abuses that occurred during the country’s authoritarian rule four decades ago, Al Jazeera reported. Located...
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For generations, Argentina’s economy has struggled with debt, inflation, and other economic challenges. Today, the South American country is printing money to pay its bills while also withdrawing $7.5 billion from an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout program, adding to the $40 billion already owed...
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Libertarian candidate Javier Milei won Argentina’s primary election Sunday, in a surprise victory that suggests a shift toward the right ahead of the country’s upcoming presidential election, the Financial Times reported. The former TV personality and one-term congressman secured more than 30 percent of the vote,...
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Argentina and Brazil are mulling the creation of a common currency for the two nations, an ambitious plan that has been met with skepticism from economists, CNBC reported Tuesday. The proposal was unveiled during a meeting in Argentina this week between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula...
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The throngs that crowded Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities after the South American country’s World Cup victory testified to a vibrant country that can field world-class athletic teams, as a photo essay in the Atlantic portrayed. But the unorganized jubilation also led to unfortunate...
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An Argentinian federal court convicted Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of fraud and sentenced her to six years in prison Tuesday, a ruling that deals a major blow to the embattled leftist government of President Alberto Fernández, the Wall Street Journal reported. The court ruled...
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Argentinian leftist Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirschner survived an assassination attempt this week, an incident that sent shockwaves across the Latin American nation amid political polarization and an economic crisis, Al Jazeera reported. On Thursday night, a gunman standing a few steps away from Kirschner...
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