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Fernández leaves with 'blue dollar' close to 1,000 pesos a dollar

Yesterday 16:54 Argentina's president departs the Casa Rosada having overseen large devaluations in the official and unofficial exchange rates.

by Ramiro Speranza

Argentina stops banks from hoarding dollars ahead of devaluation

Yesterday 13:34 Central Bank limits amount of foreign currency the nation’s commercial lenders can hold, in a push to discourage US dollar hoarding ahead of an expected devaluation by president-elect Javier Milei.

Milei’s request to use ‘Perón’s Cadillac’ for inauguration knocked back

06-12-2023 17:19 Javier Milei wanted to use a famous Cadillac commissioned by Juan Domingo Perón for his presidential inauguration, but his request was knocked back.

by Leonardo Torresi

Who is Santiago Bausili, the new head of the Central Bank?

06-12-2023 15:48 Finance secretary in the Mauricio Macri 2015-2019 administration, Santiago Bausili is a close friend of Luis 'Toto' Caputo. Hours before he was confirmed as the next governor of Argentina's Central Bank, the courts dropped charges against him.

Milei minister hints new exchange rate of 650 pesos per greenback

05-12-2023 16:40 Economists react with caution, doubt and criticism to incoming Interior Minister Guillermo Francos’ declaration that peso should be at between 600 and 650 per greenback.

Milei's maiden speech to focus on moderating expectations

05-12-2023 16:16 Victorious presidential candidate will speak at his inauguration of the economic chaos left by the Alberto Fernández Presidency and why he will be unable to achieve results in the short term.

by Juan Pablo Kavanagh

Milei appoints Bullrich's VP candidate Luis Petri as defence minister

04-12-2023 16:44 Office of the president-elect Javier Milei confirms that Mendoza Radical Luis Petri – who formerly ran for vice-president on opposition leader Patricia Bullrich's ticket – will be in charge of the Defence Ministry in his incoming government.

Rodolfo Barra, ex-justice minister and former pro-Nazi youth, named to top legal post

02-12-2023 17:39 Appointment of Rodolfo Barra, Carlos Menem’s former Justice minister to Javier Milei’s government, sparks rejection and outrage from Jewish organisations. Former official had ties to Tacuara Movement in his youth, a group that expressed pro-Nazi sympathies.

Javier Milei: From rabble-rouser to realist?

01-12-2023 16:15 Is Javier Milei taking a more pragmatic turn in order to rule Argentina?

President Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei should give Macri as wide a berth as possible’

01-12-2023 15:04 Just days after meeting with his successor, Argentina’s outgoing president sits down to reflect on his four years of government, the challenges he faced and why he believes Javier Milei won last month’s run-off.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Diana Mondino says Argentina will not join BRICS under Milei government

30-11-2023 16:14 Economist Diana Mondino, who is set to be appointed foreign minister in Javier Milei’s government, has confirmed that Argentina will not join the BRICS on her new boss' watch.

by Martin Soltys

Luis ‘Toto’ Caputo returns to fore with unenviable task

30-11-2023 14:54 President-elect Javier Milei confirms that Macri-era finance chief will be tasked with leading Argentina’s economy out of the doldrums and “defusing the bomb that the government is leaving behind.”

Milei warns of 'stagflation' after picking economy czar

29-11-2023 14:00 Period of stagflation will be unavoidable as the new administration implements the fiscal adjustment needed to organise the economy, warns Javier Milei.

Milei confirms Luis Caputo will be economy minister

29-11-2023 08:19 President-elect says in interview upon return from trip to United States that both the Treasury and the IMF "understand Argentina's problems perfectly” and that ex-Macri administration official Luis Caputo will serve as economy minister.

United States takes president-elect’s political pulse

28-11-2023 15:44 Joe Biden's government wants to “listen to the ideas” of Javier Milei to see where he is heading in his policy, making use of his current visit to the United States.

Milei’s conversion to Judaism seals pro-Israel push by Argentina

27-11-2023 21:00 President-elect Javier Milei's fervently pro-Israel stance singles out Argentina, already home to the region’s largest Jewish population, as Israel’s top ally in Latin America.

Milei lines up ‘protocol meetings’ in US with IMF, World Bank

27-11-2023 11:27 President-elect has meetings scheduled with Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, and officials from International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

President-elect heads to US, invites Lula to inauguration

26-11-2023 18:47 Milei's incoming foreign minister travelled to Brazil to invite President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to December 10 inauguration.

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

IMF’s Georgieva, Milei discuss economic challenges in video call

25-11-2023 08:49 Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva had a first meeting via video call on Friday, in which they discussed the country's economic crisis.