POLITICS Milei names X user ‘Juan Doe’ as his digital communications director 04-06-2024 17:05 The position of Juan Pablo Carreira, a renowned libertarian activist, was finalised through a decree signed by the President and Cabinet chief Guillermo Francos.
INTERVIEW WITH WORLDCOIN BOSS Alex Blania: ‘In the next few years, thousands of humans will fall deeply in love with an AI’ 10-05-2024 12:51 The CEO of Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, on technology and ethics, Artificial Intelligence and the use of private data. by Agustino Fontevecchia
HUMAN RIGHTS Young activists call on states, tech firms to uphold digital rights 23-04-2024 18:01 Amnesty International’s Global Youth Summit convenes in Buenos Aires as rights campaigners discuss intricacies of life online. by Girah Lundy-Joseph
DIGITAL CURRENCIES Massa’s ‘digital peso’ – what’s the proposal and how would it work? 04-10-2023 16:05 Sergio Massa, Argentina's economy minister and presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, has announced that he will implement a digital Argentine currency if elected. The proposal is based on a bill that first emerged in 2019 – but what does it say?
CURRENCY WOES In distorted Buenos Aires rental market, it's dollar vs peso 02-06-2023 10:15 Renting in pesos and on a long-term basis is a titanic task in the capital, where temporary and dollar-denominated supply dominates the market.
BOOKS & LITERATURE Inflation woes reach book publishers as the price of paper surges 27-05-2023 06:31 Small publishers at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair discuss the challenges of coping with runaway inflation; Resistant readers help literary houses to survive crisis. by Api Dhadda
NEWS MEDIA & JOURNALISM A day of reckoning for journalism in the age of polarisation 25-02-2023 06:22 We live in a post-modern world where trust for traditional institutions has been receding for quite some time. When it comes to journalism there are no doubts that we are in the midst of a crisis that goes beyond the economic situation of news publishers, broadcasters, and radio stations. by Agustino Fontevecchia
BLOOMBERG Billionaire-backed Ualá launches ‘star product’ in Mexico 14-02-2023 14:35 Argentina’s Ualá, the fintech company backed by George Soros, Steve Cohen and Tencent Holdings, will begin offering credit cards in Mexico through its alliance with ABC Capital.
BLOOMBERG Fintech firm Ualá to start giving personal loans in Mexico 05-12-2022 17:06 Ualá will begin offering loans for its clients in Mexico through its alliance with Mexican bank ABC Capital.
BLOOMBERG Fintech Ualá launches cryptocurrency trading in Argentina 05-11-2022 08:36 Fintech firm Ualá ventured into crypto for the first time Friday, allowing customers to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ether with pesos through its app.
On 'Fake news' The weaponisation of information in Latin America 22-10-2022 06:00 Disinformation is not new and has been used for millennia. Yet its digital iteration harnesses the power of the Internet which has brought together the largest and most interconnected communications network in the history of humanity. by Agustino Fontevecchia