Pope Leo expected to visit Argentina in November on three-day stop
GDP rose 2.3% in the first quarter of 2026 year-on-year, driven by exports and extractive industries, but unemployment is up, bank defaults have hit a 20-year high and manufacturing is contracting.
Gross domestic product expanded 0.7% compared to the previous quarter, above analyst forecasts, even as unemployment rose and wages trailed inflation.
In the past year, 2.5 million debtors have fallen behind with payments. Some 3.3 million people currently owe payments dating back more than a year for sums averaging approximately 1.6 million pesos. Private studies show the situation facing families in Argentina.
by Ezequiel Orlando Basic income for registered workers has plunged against November 2023 to levels even inferior to the 2001 crisis, according to a report by UBA Buenos Aires University’s Economics Faculty. Economic growth produces winners but they are not a majority.
MULTILATERAL FUNDING
Decree establishes a legal framework for future financing transactions, with contracts governed by New York law and subject to the jurisdiction of US courts.
WORLD CUP 2026
Argentina’s captain scores both goals in 2-0 victory over Austria; “We’ve already given the fans plenty to cheer about, but we’ll try to give them one more reason to celebrate," says skipper.
WORLD CUP 2026
Lionel Messi scored both goals in Argentina's 2-0 victory over Austria, securing the Albiceleste's place in the knockout stages of the 2026 World Cup.
Since Trump returned to the White House a year and a half ago, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Honduras have either shifted to the right or confirmed an existing conservative turn.
The right has won elections from Argentina to Honduras. But experts see little evidence of a structural ideological shift. Instead, they point to a political landscape that favours anti-establishment outsider candidates.
Election of conservative lawyer heralds swing back to business-friendly and pro-US policies after four years of leftist rule under Gustavo Petro.
What can stop Milei? The answer is very simple: his programmatic extremism and political clumsiness.
Argentina's President Javier Milei one of the first to congratulate Colombia's hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella.
Forty-eight year-old accountant and economist and close presidential ally named to one of the most high-profile positions within Javier Milei’s government.
Videos allegedly showing hidden dollar stashes surface from Martín Insaurralde case; Footage leaked by 'La Nación' shows Jesica Cirio exposing secret stashes kept by veteran Peronist.
San Juan Province is facing a persistent water shortage due to climate change, while mining advances across the Andes and its thousands of glaciers.
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by Jorge Fontevecchia Veteran Peronist and national deputy analyses the social impact of austerity and anticipates strong polarisation between President Javier Milei’s administration and a Peronism united under a model of "productive capitalism" in next year’s election.
Between echoes returning from the past and a language that breathes the brush and the river, Selva Almada’s new novel 'Una casa sola' (Random House) creates a universe in which memory, violence and poetry intertwine in a richly layered narrative. In this interview, the author traces the novel’s fragmentary origins, its connection to poetry and the gauchesca tradition, so-called ‘provincial’ literature and why writing is a living organism rather than just technique.
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A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.
Government confirms consortium of Belgian company Jan De Nul and local firm Servimagnus will be granted a 25-year concession to dredge and maintain Paraguay-Paraná waterway.
Former ally Ramiro Marra becomes latest voice to call for official’s resignation; Mounting problems for top official, who admitted he failed to declare cash savings and is struggling to explain his expenditure.
Argentina's national team opened their World Cup campaign with a comfortable 3–0 win over Algeria, thanks to a hat trick from the extraterrestrial born in Rosario. Six World Cups, 16 World Cup goals for Messi – and counting...
Church bodies warn that Milei's government's 'Inviolability of Private Property' bill threatens national sovereignty over land, water and natural resources and call on lawmakers to vote it down.
MSCI Inc will decide next week whether to set Argentina on the road back to membership in global stock indexes.
Real Madrid and Barcelona are both chasing the Argentine forward this transfer window, but Atlético Madrid insists its star striker isn't going anywhere.
Witness echoed testimony from previous witnesses, including relatives, doctors and healthcare workers, who have described the house where Maradona was looked after as dirty and lacking the necessary medical equipment.
Former Boca defender returns to the club to begin a second spell as head coach, signing a contract until December 2027.
Fate of five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña remains one of Argentina’s most haunting mysteries of recent years; Long-awaited trial due to begin, days after the second anniversary of child’s disappearance.
US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sign a memorandum of understanding, ending regional war that erupted on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes.
Jorge Messi, Argentina skipper’s father, is recovering from 'health issue,’ confirms family in a statement; Lionel broke down in tears during match against Algeria and hinted afterwards it was a family issue.
'Cuadernos' graft trial hears from pilots, who allege presidential planes were used for delivery of suitcases and materials.
From Lionel Messi rolling back the years to full stadiums and a Cape Verde team that shocked Spain, here is what we learned after the first round of games at the World Cup.
Japan and Mercosur are set to negotiate a free-trade agreement, Brasília and Tokyo announces.
