News of administration

Towards a smarter state

29-03-2025 06:11 The libertarian government seems intent on cutting back a bloated state to its right size without having any clear idea what that size might be.

by Michael Soltys

'Cryptogate' Scandal

Milei orders Anti-Corruption Office to launch '$LIBRA' probe

20-02-2025 11:08 Opposition lawmakers push for a congressional commission to investigate President Javier Milei's conduct in scandal; UCR senator Pablo Blanco leading initiative, with support from Kirchnerism, some sectors of PRO and provincial leaders.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Judge orders government to protect dictatorship torture sites

15-01-2025 19:52 President Milei’s nominee for Supreme Court, Federal Judge Ariel Lijo, orders Human Rights Secretariat to safeguard sites and staff of 'Olimpo,' 'Club Atlético,' 'Automotores Orletti' and 'Virrey Cevallos' after request by City legislator Victoria Montenegro.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

No quorum, no forum

07-12-2024 05:30 Congress becomes its own worst enemy when deputies and senators refuse to do the work for which the tax-payer remunerates them.

by Michael Soltys

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Intrigue and secrecy in Mondino’s pre-trailed dismissal

31-10-2024 10:25 President Javier Milei sacks his foreign minister after Argentina’s vote at the UN against the United States’ six-decade embargo imposed against Cuba. Issuing a presidential communiqué aimed at sowing terror in the diplomatic corps, Milei is embarking on a cultural battle to shift the foreign service.

by Walter Curia

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Adorni says 40,000 contracted state workers will face 'suitability test'

10-10-2024 15:00 Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni says as many as 40,000 fixed-term state employees will face a suitability test before their contracts will be renewed.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists fear underfunded research on verge of collapse

01-10-2024 11:13 Drastic budget cuts by President Javier Milei's government are damaging scientific research, with the lack of state funding opening the door to a potential exodus of researchers.

OFFICIAL FORTUNES

Official fortunes: New minister’s statement shakes up Milei Cabinet rich list

03-09-2024 12:14 Argentina’s new Deregulation & State Transformation Minister Federico Sturzenegger’s sworn affidavit places him as the fourth-richest member of Javier Milei’s Cabinet. President now ranks seventh on a list topped by Foreign Minister Diana Mondino.

POLITICS- ANALYSIS

Treason and betrayal

23-07-2024 14:58 The Milei administration is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It needs to deliver economic results, fast. It risks seeing its public support begin to drop, which would reduce the government’s credibility and therefore erode their capacity to enact policy.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Sturzenegger appointed ‘deregulation and state transformation’ minister

05-07-2024 15:51 Months after his appointment was first trailed, Federico Sturzenegger finally joins Milei administration as Deregulation & State Transformation minister; Ex-governor of Central Bank, who was sworn into office on Friday, has had a key role behind the scenes up until now, drafting bills and decrees.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Emilio Monzó: ‘Today fear is so strong that it has wiped out leaders with identity’

04-05-2024 06:38 Ex-lower house speaker and national deputy for Buenos Aires Province on the first 100 days of President Javier Milei’s government, the future of Juntos por el Cambio and why the state isn’t a criminal enterprise.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Top officials to meet People's Bank of China chief amid swap talks

26-04-2024 17:20 Argentina’s Central Bank Governor Santiago Bausili and Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno are scheduled to meet with People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng in Beijing on Monday.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Milei sparks wild rally that makes peso number one in the world

25-04-2024 15:17 Four months into office, President Javier Milei has pulled off a critical feat in a country long ravaged by runaway inflation: stabilising Argentina's currency.

Politics

Posse and Pettovello, key Milei ministers, tussle for posts and influence

06-03-2024 09:45 Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse and Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello, two high-profile officials without previous political experience, are ramping up tensions in President Javier Milei’s government.

by Pablo Varela

NEWS AGENCY SHUTTERED

Government suspends Télam state news agency, puts workers on leave

04-03-2024 16:57 State news agency’s offices fenced off as workers are sent on leave for seven days; Website shut down for “reconstruction” as Télam’s staff take to streets in protest.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Are two Caputos one too many for Milei?

02-03-2024 05:25 Foreign observers and investors welcome that Milei is a man on a mission to turn Argentina into a more open, more pro-market economy … but they don’t like conflict as the end itself, nor the Casa Rosada’s unwillingness to compromise.

by Marcelo J. García

RUNAWAY PRICE HIKES

President Milei blasts inflation data, focused on reforms

15-02-2024 11:36 President Javier Milei blasts Argentina’s monthly inflation figure of 20.6% in January as “horrendous.”

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Biden’s top Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez to step down

14-02-2024 21:29 Juan Gonzalez, special assistant to US President Joe Biden and the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, will depart his post in mid-March.

POLITICS

Court suspends Milei’s labour reforms, dealing president a setback

04-01-2024 00:51 President Javier Milei suffered his first judicial setback on Wednesday as the national labour appeals court suspended a key portion of his emergency mega-decree.

PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON

Milei's team to announce austerity measures on Tuesday, says Adorni

11-12-2023 13:17 Austerity measures "will be communicated on Tuesday by Economy Minister Luis Caputo," says Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni in first press conference.

MILEI'S INAUGURATION

Zelenskyy headlines guestlist as leaders confirm for inauguration

08-12-2023 00:45 Javier Milei will be sworn-in as Argentina's new head of state on Sunday in a ceremony set to be attended by a host of regional and world leaders.