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ELECTION 2023

Adviser details ‘urgent’ economic measures Milei plans for Argentina

21-09-2023 14:48 Darío Epstein, a top economic adviser to the libertarian presidential candidate, questions latest measures announced by Economy Minister Sergio Massa and details Javier Milei’s plan for government.

ELECTION 2023

Milei’s former billionaire boss praises his Argentina contender

21-09-2023 09:58 Eduardo Eurnekian, an Argentine billionaire and former boss of presidential frontrunner Javier Milei, praised contender Patricia Bullrich while stopping short of offering his explicit backing ahead of the country’s general election in October.

ELECTION 2023

Bullrich unveils plan to ‘order’ Argentina

07-09-2023 13:54 Opposition presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich presents "irreversible" reform package that would slash government ministries, remove currency controls, introduce bi-monetarism and cut subsidies for Argentina's state airline.

ELECTION 2023

Presidential frontrunners make case to business community

24-08-2023 21:19 Milei and Bullrich vow not to take Argentina into BRICS as they outline economic programmes; Massa opts for scare tactics, warning of threat of libertarian frontrunner.

ELECTIONS 2023

Milei’s plan for Argentina: Dollarisation, scrapping taxes and more

14-08-2023 13:51 From ditching the struggling peso to eventually eliminating Argentina’s Central Bank, outsider presidential candidate Javier Milei has vowed to implement a series of bold — and perhaps unfeasible — measures.

ELECTIONS 2023

Bullrich would remove FX controls with IMF's help, says Laspina

07-08-2023 08:34 Opposition presidential hopeful would seek greater support from the IMF to untangle currency controls as soon as possible if elected this year, according to top economic adviser Luciano Laspina.

ELECTION 2023

'A complete reform of the State': Milei presents plan for government

03-08-2023 15:45 Libertarian presidential hopeful outlines ideas for privatisation of healthcare, education and public works projects. Milei intends to slash government portfolios, unifying ministries while eliminating the Central Bank.

ELECTION 2023

Rodríguez Larreta plans spending cuts to help peso

13-07-2023 15:51 Juntos por el Cambio presidential hopeful plans to cut spending by 4% of GDP; Move intends to allow peso to weaken gradually to level between official and parallel rates, reveals Lacunza.

Election 2023

Electoral platform: Dollarisation, privatisations, guns, no sexual ed

18-05-2023 15:33 Leaked electoral platform presented by libertarian lawmaker to Judge María Servini features more than 60 proposals he aims to put into practice if he becomes president.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Eduardo Porter: LatAm’s new lithium bounty unearths old problem

08-05-2023 11:31 From Mexico to Chile, governments still haven’t cracked the code on how to leverage natural resources into sustained, broad-based prosperity.

ELECTIONS 2023

Milei’s policies – and poll numbers – spark concern

22-04-2023 07:00 Outspoken libertarian lawmaker Javier Milei looms larger each day over Argentina's upcoming election, with his politics, proposed policies – and poll numbers – shocking the establishment.

FORO LLAO LLAO

Election 2023 hopefuls outline economic plans to business leaders

20-04-2023 14:29 Milei, Rodríguez Larreta, Bullrich and Vidal outline their economic plans to the nation’s top business leaders at the Llao Llao Forum in Bariloche – here’s what the leading candidates told the ‘círculo rojo.’

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Sergio Massa: Stuck between Cristina and Kristalina

02-11-2022 17:46 Argentina’s ‘super’ economy minister is torn between the demands of the International Monetary Fund and the wing of the ruling coalition led by Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

by Carlos Claá

BRAZIL ELECTION 2022

High stakes for climate-change race in Brazil vote

29-09-2022 01:27 Under Bolsonaro, average annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen by 75% compared to the previous decade, with environmental funding slashed.

IMF DEBT

IMF: Targets in Argentina’s debt deal ‘have not changed’

19-05-2022 16:09 Fund Spokesperson Gerry Rice says staff are making “good progress” in review of debt restructuring deal, but that its “objectives have not changed.”

AMCHAM SUMMIT 2022

Guzmán tells AmCham that Argentina needs ‘common sense,’ not ‘fairy tales’

11-05-2022 01:19 Argentina’s economy minister addresses coalition tensions and inflation at AmCham summit; Opposition leaders Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich pitch their visions to business leaders.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Luciano Laspina: ‘The ideas Argentina needs today are similar to those pushed by Milei’

06-05-2022 00:01 Rosario-born economist and national deputy Luciano Laspina on Javier Milei, the Mauricio Macri government and the reforms Argentina needs to undertake.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

'23A - Tractorazo' protest

Farmers, agricultural producers descend on Buenos Aires to protest

24-04-2022 09:47 Thousands of farmers and agricultural producers descended on Buenos Aires on Saturday to protest against the government's policies.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Cecilia Todesca Bocco: ‘Labour rights do not explain Argentina’s macroeconomic problems'

18-03-2022 12:20 International Relations Secretary Cecilia Todesca Bocco on the freshly approved IMF deal, policies to deliver economic growth in Argentina and politics in the family.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

NEW CONGRESS SESSIONS

Fernández slams Macri in speech to Congress, prompting opposition walkout

04-03-2022 23:07 Opposition PRO party lawmakers walk out on speech to Congress after president once again attacks Macri for agreeing an “unpayable foreign debt” with IMF.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Argentina's peso weakens past key level in parallel market

22-10-2021 19:01 Argentina’s parallel exchange rate weakened past a key threshold on Friday, as demand for assets in hard currency climbed ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in November.