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Rosario Central's forward Ángel Di María poses for a photo during his presentation at the Gigantes de Arroyito Stadium in Rosario, Argentina, on July 7, 2025.

Emotional Di María finally returns to Rosario Central

Today 22:11 “This is more than I ever dreamed of” – Argentina’s World Cup hero breaks down in tears as he rejoins his boyhood club after 18 seasons in Europe.

At a press conference, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo rights group confirmed the restitution of the child of Graciela Romero and Raúl Eugenio Metz, who was born in captivity at a clandestine detention centre in 1977.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Abuelas identify 140th grandchild born in dictatorship captivity

Today 15:38 Rights group announces discovery of new grandchild of disappeared parents; Child of Graciela Romero and Raúl Metz was born in a secret detention centre in 1977.

ICONIC CITY VENUE

Luna Park redevelopment plan unveiled with 2027 target

Today 14:51 DF Entertainment and Live Nation announce plan to renovate iconic Buenos Aires venue; Late 2027 target for reopening; More than 150 shows a year planned, historic façade preserved.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentina's President Javier Milei wave on the balcony of the Casa Rosada government palace after a meeting in Buenos Aires, on July 5, 2025.

FOREIGN POLICY

Modi and Milei vow to boost trade after Casa Rosada talks

Yesterday 09:15 Indian PM Narendra Modi, leader of the world's fifth-largest economy, vows to expand and diversify trade Argentina before heading to Brazil to attend the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

President Javier Milei hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office at the Casa Rosada.

FOREIGN POLICY

President Milei hosts India PM Narendra Modi at Casa Rosada

05-07-2025 13:31 Second meeting between two national leaders after G20 talks last year; India, the world’s fifth-largest economy, is a key export destination for Argentina.

As I see it

Milei hurt by yet another time bomb

05-07-2025 07:34 A New York judge has ordered the government to hand just over half the shares in YPF to a vulture fund that had purchased the rights of companies harmed by the cack-handed takeover of the oil firm in 2015.

by James Neilson

Campaign comments

The autumn of the patriarch

05-07-2025 07:19 Gildo Insfrán’s power stems from the provincial government being by far Formosa’s biggest employer with less than six percent of the workforce having formal jobs in the private sector, boosted by shameless patronage.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Anti-Milei sentiment growing among Argentina’s elites

05-07-2025 06:38 There’s a growing feeling among certain groups of elites that the Milei administration will fail at some point in the near future.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

OPINION & ANALYSIS

We need to talk about Conan

05-07-2025 06:07 Javier Milei brought his dog onto a TV show. According to him, the animal is about to turn 22 years old. Behind this story lies an unsettling truth.

by Juan Luis González

Editorial

Yesterday’s Petrol Fiasco

05-07-2025 06:03 Manhattan judge Loretta Preska’s controversial ruling on the US$16-billion time-bomb compensating speculative interests for the nationalisation of YPF needs to be viewed in its electoral context as much as for its legal force.

A snowman is pictured on a snow-covered beach in Miramar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on June 30, 2025.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: June 27 to July 4

04-07-2025 18:09 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, when she was president, and the late Enrique Eskenazi, founder of Grupo Petersen.

Background to YPF takeover

YPF: How a firm was purchased with its own money, ending in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit

04-07-2025 08:56 The Eskenazis family entered into YPF thanks to Néstor Kirchner without placing a dollar. The Grupo Petersen purchased shares with the promise to pay with the dividends. More than a decade on, the case in the US courts.

View of the headquarters of the state oil company YPF in Buenos Aires.

YPF NATIONALISATION CASE

Argentina appeals US$16-billion YPF court ruling

04-07-2025 08:42 Argentina appeals US judge's order to hand over 51% of shares in YPF in expropriation case; Milei points finger at Kicillof, Fernández de Kirchner as fears over ruling impact grow.

Maxi Salas had already been in the Millonarios’ sights prior to the Club World Cup, but that interest has gone into overdrive in the wake of River’s elimination.

FOOTBALL TRANSFERS

River Plate rile rivals by breaking bank for Racing’s Maxi Salas

04-07-2025 07:15 Release clauses have long been understood to have a merely symbolic value in Argentina, an upper limit to negotiate for a player without forcing the seller’s hand – executing it is considered a breach of ethics and the unwritten code.

by Dan Edwards

Shoppers at a supermarket in Buenos Aires.

ECONOMIC WOES

'The stressed' – Argentina's ‘Non-poor’ who can’t reach the end of the month

04-07-2025 06:58 The INDEC national statistics bureau does not consider them poor, but millions of Argentina can’t make it to the end of the month; New study by UCA’s poverty watchdog shines light on those living under “economic stress”

by Agustina Bordigoni

Defence lawyers for those accused of carrying out a controversial ‘escrache’ protest against La Libertad Avanza deputy José Luis Espert have demanded their immediate release from custody.

POLITICS & SECURITY

Lawyers demand release of anti-Espert ‘K’ protesters

03-07-2025 19:24 Legal teams, backed by the Centre for Legal and Social Stories, rights groups and Milei critics, allege arrests are part of a campaign of "judicial and media persecution."

Scandalous scenes in the Chamber of Deputies.

POLITICS

Scandal in Congress: Kirchnerite, libertarian deputies row ends session

03-07-2025 19:02 Chamber of Deputies session ends early with pushing and shoving between La Libertad Avanza and Kirchnerite legislators.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentina's President Javier Milei pose for the family photo during the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States at the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

ANALYSIS

Lula hugs it out with Milei, but saves warm embrace for Fernández de Kirchner

03-07-2025 18:43 The sharp divides roiling Latin American politics were visible in a pair of hugs.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is under house arrest, at her apartment in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Brazil's Lula pledges 'solidarity' as he visits house-confined Fernández de Kirchner

03-07-2025 18:34 Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, condemned to house arrest as she serves a six-year jail term for corruption-related offences, hosts Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at her apartment in Buenos Aires.

A YPF storage terminal in Ushuaia, Argentina.

YPF NATIONALISATION CASE

Investors see way for Milei to end fight over YPF

03-07-2025 16:43 Could there be a silver lining for Javier Milei in the multibillion-dollar US judgment targeting Argentina’s main oil producer?

FIFA CORRUPTION CASE

Convictions in FIFA corruption case reinstated, rules court

03-07-2025 14:32 United States appeals court reinstates convictions of former Fox broadcasting executive and Argentine sports-marketing firm Full Play involved in the FIFA corruption scandal.

Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein speaks with President Javier Milei on arrival for the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States at the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

MERCOSUR SUMMIT

Milei urges Mercosur to pursue greater trade openness at summit

03-07-2025 11:58 President Javier Milei urges Mercosur partners to push for greater trade openness within the bloc as he opened a summit in Buenos Aires.

A snow-covered beach is pictured in Miramar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on June 30, 2025.

DEADLY POLAR WAVE

NGO reports nine cold-related deaths as polar wave slams Argentina

03-07-2025 09:53 Argentina's National Meteorological System recorded snowfall in several parts of the country this week as part of an extreme cold wave caused by a mass of air from Antarctica, which led to a sharp drop in temperatures; At least nine homeless people have died from the cold so far this winter, reports NGO.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Milei reportedly ‘not interested’ in meeting Mercosur peers

03-07-2025 00:48 Government source tell reporters that Argentina’s president has little interest in meeting him Mercosur peers – though a bilateral with Paraguay’s Santiago Peña could take place.

Elon Musk holds a chainsaw alongside Argentina's President Javier Milei during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 20, 2025.

No more love for Milei?

Musk walks back chainsaw wielding display: ‘It lacked empathy’

02-07-2025 20:52 Billionaire Elon Musk now regrets his chainsaw-wielding appearance with President Javier Milei, it seems...

A view of the Argentina's Foreign Ministry headquarters building in Buenos Aires on July 1, 2025, on the eve of the 66th Summit of leaders of Mercosur and Associated States to be held on July 2 and 3.

MERCOSUR TRADE TALKS

Mercosur, European EFTA bloc conclude talks on free-trade deal

02-07-2025 19:10 Mercosur and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) close negotiations over a free-trade agreement.

Shipping containers at the Greenland Terminal in the port at Brevik, Norway.

MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

Swiss-Norway group and South America’s Mercosur agree on free-trade deal

02-07-2025 18:17 European Free Trade Association of Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland finalise free-trade agreement with Mercosur bloc.

CURRENCY MARKETS

Peso weakens as seasonal bonus stokes dollar demand

02-07-2025 17:38 Peso weakens to 1,243 pesos per dollar during trading as seasonal demand for dollars picks up.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner shake hands during a meeting in São Paulo, on December 9, 2016.

POLITICS & COURTS

Court approves Lula’s visit to house-bound Fernández de Kirchner

02-07-2025 14:11 Federal judge approves Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s request for Brazil’s leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to visit her in Buenos Aires while she’s under house arrest.

A policeman stands guard nearby the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires during the Ordinary Meeting of the Common Market Council (CMC) on July 2, 2025, within the framework of the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States.

MERCOSUR SUMMIT IN BUENOS AIRES

Fate of EU free-trade deal looms as Milei hosts Mercosur summit

02-07-2025 12:54 Leaders of South America's Mercosur bloc will hold two days of talks in Buenos Aires, focused on a massive trade deal with the European Union being blocked by France.

Brokerages boomed in Argentina between 2019 and early 2024, when capital controls fuelled demand for so-called blue-chip swap operations.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei’s foreign-exchange shake-up has brokers moving into banking

02-07-2025 11:42 Brokerages are restructuring after President Javier Milei took away lucrative arbitrage opportunities that juiced their business when he rolled back capital controls.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner seeks permission for Lula visit under house arrest

01-07-2025 21:43 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner requests permission to host Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for a visit while serving her six-year jail term under house arrest.

Elections 2025: Santa Fe Province

Monteverde leads Peronism to first triumph in Rosario in half-decade

01-07-2025 19:14 Peronism emerges with victory in Rosario for first time in 52 years; Ruling party holds provincial capital.

Formosa Province Governor Gildo Insfrán.

ELECTIONS 2025: FORMOSA

Insfrán and PJ scores landslide win in Formosa

01-07-2025 13:11 Governor Gildo Insfrán’s ruling party scores major victory, with Partido Justicialista taking 67% of votes for provincial deputies; Result likely to pave way for controversial reform of provincial constitution, another run for office for eight-term Peronist veteran.

US$16-billion court ruling

Milei vows appeal amid fallout as US judge orders transfer of YPF shares

01-07-2025 11:12 President vows to appeal as US judge orders Argentina to hand over 51% of shares in YPF in expropriation case; Milei points finger at Kicillof, Fernández de Kirchner as fears over ruling impact grow.

All Boys fans carried out anti-Semitic acts before the match against Atlanta.

DISCRIMINATION

'Discrimination': AFA slams 'anti-Semitic acts' by fans of All Boys

01-07-2025 09:55 Argentine football's governing body condemns "anti-Semitic" acts by fans of All Boys ahead of their match with Atlanta.

A customer pays with Argentine peso banknotes at a cafe in Buenos Aires on April 14.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Economy grew more than expected after Milei lifted controls

30-06-2025 17:51 Argentina’s economy grew more than expected in April, with economic activity up 1.9% on previous month.

Diego Sucalesca (circled) appears onstage with President Javier Milei and Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei.

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

Milei’s actor friend runs state agency with multi-million-dollar budget

30-06-2025 17:16 AAICI trade body, led by ally and friend of President Javier Milei, received more funds than Garrahan Children’s Hospital over the past nine months.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Court strikes down Milei decree restricting right to strike

30-06-2025 15:15 Ruling says measure lacked urgency and bypassed Congress without any justification.

A YPF SA storage terminal in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

COURT BLOW

Argentina must turn over 51% stake in YPF, US judge rules

30-06-2025 14:48 US judge orders state to turn over its controlling stake in state-run oil company YPF SA as partial payment of a US$16-billion court judgment.

‘Mattress dollars’

INDEC reveals how many dollars Argentines have stashed away

30-06-2025 13:02 INDEC estimates the amount of cash stashed outside the traditional financial system fell by more than US$3 billion in the first quarter of the year from the preceding period.

EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

EU to present Mercosur trade deal 'in coming days'

30-06-2025 13:01 European Commission will present EU states with the final legal version of a trade deal with South American nations "in the coming days," says spokesperson.

President Javier Milei appears on a charity livestream hosted by Neura Media, with his dog Conan in tow.

MILEI'S CANINE CONTROVERSY

Milei makes waves by taking his dog Conan to interview

30-06-2025 12:29 Javier Milei and Karina Milei make an appearance on a pet-themed charity livestream show with two dogs – including Conan, the allegedly cloned successor to the President's original late dog and spiritual confidant.

Argentina's President Javier Milei laughs during the LXV Mercosur Summit in Montevideo on December 6, 2024.

MERCOSUR SUMMIT IN BUENOS AIRES

Milei to host Mercosur presidents amid tensions with Lula

29-06-2025 11:54 President will lead this week’s two-day two summit in Buenos Aires; Argentina’s leader to again push for a liberal shift in the South American trade bloc’s future.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, formally takes his oath of office to his second term as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the IAEA 67th General Conference held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 25 September 2023. Photo Credit:

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Argentina condemns Iran's 'threats' against IAEA chief Grossi

29-06-2025 11:07 Argentina's Foreign Ministry expresses support for UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi, stating it "categorically condemns the threats against him coming from Iran."

WATER AND ARGENTINA

Where water runs dry, hope begins

29-06-2025 06:26 With over seven million compatriots without access to drinking water, the situation is becoming especially dramatic in the face of the extreme events arising from climate change. Nevertheless, persons and communities – especially the most vulnerable – are working together with NGOs to confront an increasingly hostile reality with creativity and communal effort.

by Fernanda Sández

View of oil drilling rigs in Neuquén, Argentina.

ENERGY & GAS

Total gets offers for potential sale of Argentina shale oil assets

28-06-2025 18:12 France’s TotalEnergies SE is in talks with at least two suitors who have submitted bids for its shale oil assets in Argentina.

France's Delegate Minister for Foreign Trade and French Nationals Abroad Laurent Saint-Martin (right) shakes hands with Argentina's Mining Secretary Luis Lucero (left), during the signing of a memorandum of understanding on critical minerals between France and Argentina at the French Embassy in Buenos Aires on June 27, 2025.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

France and Argentina sign agreement on critical minerals

28-06-2025 10:29 New agreement designed to accelerate investment and cooperation in Argentina’s mining sector, which could become a key player in the global energy transition for France.

An aerial view of Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) on October 7, 2019.

MALVINAS SOVEREIGNTY DISPUTE

OAS calls for negotiations between Argentina, UK over Malvinas

28-06-2025 10:14 Organisation of American States (OAS) calls for London and Buenos Aires to resume negotiations "as soon as possible" in order to find a peaceful solution to the dispute over sovereignty of the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands.

UK Ambassador to Argentina Kirsty Hayes hosts an event at the Teatro Colón celebrating 200 years of bilateral relations with Argentina.

DIPLOMACY

British ambassador hails bicentennial with Argentina in farewell bow

28-06-2025 09:51 Ambassador Kirsty Hayes looks to the past, present and future in her last event as London’s envoy in Buenos Aires, delivering a farewell speech that recognises 200 years of bilateral relations between UK and Argentina.

by James Grainger

Analysing Argentina

Milei’s Argentina: A tale of two pockets

28-06-2025 07:33 There is a “dollarised” Argentina doing well and a “pesofied” Argentina that is struggling.

by Marcelo J. García

Campaign comments

Midterms in midyear

28-06-2025 07:24 Given the total inability of the protagonists in Buenos Aires Province to get their act together, the midterms still four months away are looking more like candidates for “It’s the economy, stupid” than ever.

by Michael Soltys

opinion and analysis

Carnal relations

28-06-2025 06:01 Halfway between the ‘Conurbano’ and World War III.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

The US Embassy hosts its annual Independence Day celebration.

the week in review

Stories that caught our eye: June 20 to June 27

27-06-2025 17:41 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Elections 2025

Milei launches La Libertad Avanza's campaign in Buenos Aires Province

27-06-2025 15:37 At LLA congress in opposition stronghold of Buenos Aires Province, Milei brands Governor Axel Kicillof “a junior Stalin” and frames regional vote as choice between “civilisation or barbarism.”

Lalo Schifrin (age 91) and Rod Schejtman (age 39) composing the symphony Viva la Libertad (Long Live Freedom) at Schifrin's studio in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California. Early 2024.

IN TRIBUTE

The final symphony: Honouring Lalo Schifrin

27-06-2025 15:27 A public tribute to the late Lalo Schifrin by the co-author of his final symphony, maestro Rod Schejtman.

by Rodrigo Schejtman

Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin accepts an honorary Oscar at the 10th Annual Governors Awards gala hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the the Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on November 18, 2018.

OBITUARY

'Mission: Impossible' composer Lalo Schifrin dies aged 93

27-06-2025 14:10 Buenos Aires-born composer Lalo Schifrin, who created themes for a host of hit Hollywood films and television shows, has died at the age of 93.

Crops are loaded onto a ship along the Paraná River waterway in Rosario, Argentina.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

Crop traders rush to secure Argentine cargoes as Milei perk ends

27-06-2025 14:03 Agriculture traders rush to get crop shipments on the books before government's tariff relief expires next week.

DEBT & BONDS

Córdoba Province sells US$725 million of debt abroad

27-06-2025 13:51 Cordoba Province taps investors in the first international debt sale by a local government since President Javier Milei took office.

BUSINESS & BANKING

Argentine fintech Tapi buys Mastercard unit in Mexico expansion

27-06-2025 13:15 Argentine payments services startup tapi has acquired the bill payment and cash-handling operations of Mastercard’s Arcus in Mexico, part of a bid to double-down on Latin America’s second-largest economy.

POLITICS

Argentina to beef up Milei’s security for overseas travel

27-06-2025 13:02 Government will tighten security measures for President Javier Milei abroad against possible Iranian threats given Argentine leader’s support for Israel.

A Boca Juniors fan cheers for his team at the FIFA Club World Cup.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Boca's best efforts fall well short of expectations

26-06-2025 19:14 Boca’s boisterous fans deserve better than this current crop. As has so often been the case with the Xeneize, hope turned to despair and ridicule in the blink of an eye.

by Dan Edwards

Signage in support of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's former president, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Court says Fernández de Kirchner’s allies need authorisation to visit

26-06-2025 19:05 Kirchnerite legislators must seek authorisation from defence lawyers to visit Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in house arrest, rules court.

Javier Milei in Montevideo, Uruguay on December 6, 2024.

FOREIGN POLICY

With same demands, isolated Milei prepares for Mercosur summit

26-06-2025 18:51 No bilateral meetings anticipated, but at the upcoming summit in Buenos Aires, there could be clashes with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – if not over their stance regarding the international situation involving Israel and Iran, then over the Brazilian leader’s potential visit to see Cristina Fernández de Kirchner serving house arrest.

Soy is loaded onto a ship along the Paraná River at a processing facility in Rosario on March 26, 2024.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

China imports Argentina soy meal in trial amid US tensions

26-06-2025 17:45 China has booked a rare shipment of soybean meal from Argentina amid an ongoing trade war with the United States.

BANKING & FINTECH

UK fintech giant Revolut to acquire BNP’s Cetelem in Argentina

26-06-2025 14:46 Revolut, Europe’s largest digital bank, to acquire Argentina’s Banco Cetelem, a small local lender owned by BNP Paribas.

Remembrance at the site of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre.

COURTS: AMIA BOMBING

Judge orders trial in absentia for 10 suspects in 1994 AMIA bombing

26-06-2025 13:59 Argentina will try in absentia 10 Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of the deadly 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre that killed 85 people.

FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP

Inter down nine-man River to advance in 'Battle of Seattle'

26-06-2025 00:29 Lucas Martínez Quarta and Gonzalo Montiel sent off as River Plate lose 2-0 to Inter Milan in Seattle; Argentina's two representatives at FIFA tournament both fall at first hurdle.

Workers at the Garrahan Children's Hospital in Buenos Aires protest against government policies, demanding improves wages and budget for the prestigious paediatric institution.

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Workers at top children's hospital strike over pay, budget cutbacks

25-06-2025 17:47 Workers at the Garrahan Children's Hospital in Buenos Aires protest against government policies, demanding improves wages and budget for the prestigious paediatric institution.

FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP

Another frustrating low for Boca Juniors at Club World Cup

25-06-2025 15:53 Embarrassment and frustration at the FIFA Club World Cup in the United States as Boca’s campaign ends early by being held by semi-professional side Auckland City.