ANALYSIS ‘Unconstitutional’ – Experts, critics slam Milei’s massive reform plan 21-12-2023 23:21 Leading experts slam President Javier Milei’s bid to enforce sweeping change by decree.
POLITICS Milei government draws up labour emergency reform package 19-12-2023 14:37 Javier Milei is spearheading a series of measures to promote registered employment. Government is yet to define whether they will be part of a bill for Congress or urgent decree.
POLITICS & ECONOMY Milei the pragmatist and Toto’s ‘caputazo’ 16-12-2023 06:06 The ‘caputazo’ replaced pure austerity with a mix of higher taxes together with spending cuts and the “dilution” of part of the deficit through high inflation. The next few months will see runaway inflation run even farther away and put intense pressure on the population, as wages and salaries fall even farther behind. by Agustino Fontevecchia
EDITORIAL The lion enters his jungle 16-12-2023 06:03 Milei cannot be accused of not warning us that things would get much worse before they got better – what he did not say was how he would be moving in the opposite direction of the firebrand rhetoric he deployed during his pre-presidential existence.
ECONOMIC MEASURES Four issues for Caputo to clarify: utilities and subsidies, pensions, tax, agricultural duties 13-12-2023 14:17 Argentina’s economy minister announced the first economic measures of Javier Milei’s new government on Tuesday – but did not provide details on a number of key moves.
EMERGENCY MEASURES Milei devalues peso by 54% in first batch of shock measures 12-12-2023 19:46 Economy Minister Luis Caputo devalues peso by 54% and announces a swathe of spending cuts President Javier Milei’s shock-therapy programme gets underway.
EMERGENCY MEASURES Milei government confirms massive devaluation of peso 12-12-2023 19:29 First measures announced by Economy Minister Luis Caputo; Official dollar moves from around 400 to 800 pesos per greenback, among host of other measures.