News of politics

The secrets of Leonardo Scatturice, Milei’s lobbyist in Washington

Today 07:20 The murky past of the millionaire former spy behind the unchecked luggage flight. A key link between Javier Milei and Donald Trump, with ties to airline Flybondi and top presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.

by Rodis Recalt

OP-ED

In whose interest is interest?

Yesterday 15:43 Any recessive trend is unlikely to bite hard enough in the immediate term to affect the midterm results unduly but it could end up jeopardising Milei’s re-election ambitions.

AS I SEE IT

Weirdoes do battle for the world

Yesterday 15:33 Few imagined that the old order would soon fall apart and that through the cracks would emerge political leaders determined to bring about drastic changes in the societies they lived in.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Milei, Lamelas and the politics of evil

Yesterday 15:24 Governors who used to oversee economic no-go areas, whose only hope used to be getting assistance or even charity, are now empowered by growing national and international business interest in their regions.

POLITICS - ANALYSIS

Dirty politics in the Province and the risk of violence

Yesterday 15:12 Libertarian coalition sparked the implosion and successive fragmentation of Argentina’s dysfunctional political system.

LIVING IN ARGENTINA

Boom or broke: Milei’s shake up splits nation along financial lines

21-07-2025 06:20 One half travels overseas and shops, but the other half of the country can't pay the bills – welcome to Javier Milei’s Argentina.

STATE SELL OFF

Government confirms start of AySA waterworks privatisation process

21-07-2025 05:29 President Javier Milei's government formally announces the start of the privatisation process for struggling state-owned waterworks AySA.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Caputo’s ‘buy ‘em up champ’ and Milei’s ‘Epstein moment’

20-07-2025 17:32 Leonardo Scaturicce is said to have been instrumental in staffing the DGI tax office which remains under operational control of Santiago Caputo, as does the SIDE spy agency.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

19-07-2025 18:53 While the last census of 2022 showed that Argentina’s population had risen some 15% since the Bicentenary count of 2010, the population of Greater Buenos Aires only rose 9%.

by Michael Soltys

MILEI'S ARGENTINA

The price of verbal violence

18-07-2025 05:17 Old behavioural norms are no longer respected. There are no limits to violent languages nor to intrusion into the private lives of people. Privacy is dead.

by Jaime Duran Barba

PRESIDENT & THE PRESS

Milei steps up attacks on media as election nears

17-07-2025 19:14 President Javier Milei has stepped up his attacks on journalists with defamation suits and insults that analysts say are designed to bolster his image as an anti-"woke" warrior ahead of October elections.

ECONOMY – ANALYSIS

The risks of the Milei government’s economic plan

17-07-2025 10:03 Macroeconomic order and disinflation alone do not guarantee long-term sustainability.

by Luis Secco

TV & STREAMING

‘There are many Menems – it’s hard to know which one he is’

16-07-2025 13:02 Director Ariel Winograd and actor Leonardo Sbaraglia discuss the new Prime Video original series about former president Carlos Menem.

by Juan Manuel Dominguez

POLITICS

Move Group: the consultancy firm advising government and opposition

12-07-2025 07:15 From Mayra Mendoza to Rolando Figueroa and Alberto Weretilneck. During the Javier Milei Presidency, a wide range of leaders have contracted the services of the consultancy firm where Santiago Caputo previously worked.

by Giselle Leclercq

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Governors show lone-wolf Milei their teeth – will they bite?

12-07-2025 06:59 Wrestling with Argentina’s powerful provincial leaders is more likely to hinder Milei than help him achieve his goals.

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Corruption claims and political miscalculations

12-07-2025 06:16 The Milei government must defend its hard-fought macroeconomic stability at all costs, at least until the election. That’s why Caputo and Milei went on the offensive, making the rounds with their typical, friendly interviewers to accuse provincial governors and the opposition at large of seeking to destabilise the government.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Editorial

Fiscal surplus versus political deficit

12-07-2025 06:02 The “forces of heaven” might be on the ascendancy in recent times but what politics needs is more agnostics with a pragmatic rather than dogmatic approach.

MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT IN FOCUS

The businessman, the employee, the private jet and 10 suitcases

10-07-2025 23:46 Court probe puts mystery of private jet suitcases back on agenda; Government denials of uninspected luggage from Miami queried, with CPAC-linked businessman Leonardo Scatturice and his employee Laura Belén Arrieta in spotlight.

POLITICS & CONGRESS

Milei vows veto as Senate defies pension cuts

10-07-2025 23:27 Senate approves bill that would significantly increase government spending on pensions and social security, prompting angry reaction from President Javier Milei.

elections 2025

Peronism closes ranks in Buenos Aires Province, launches ‘Fuerza Patria’

10-07-2025 17:05 Kicillof, Massa, and Máximo seal express alliance for the September 7 legislative election; Deputy Governor Verónica Magario rumoured to be leading key ticket in third electoral district.

TRUMP'S TARIFF WAR

Trump unveils 50% Brazil levy in response to Bolsonaro trial

09-07-2025 21:22 US President Donald Trump announces 50% tariff targeting Brazil as he blasted the trial of the country's ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

La Libertad Avanza, PRO ink alliance in Buenos Aires Province

09-07-2025 14:49 Parties led by Macri and Milei agree to join forces in key battleground region for September 7 election; Alliance, formalised by Ritondo and Pareja, offers a united front against Kirchnerism on Peronism’s home turf.

FEATURE

Santiago Caputo, Milei’s secret weapon, disrupts domestic politics

08-07-2025 10:57 Top adviser is upending Argentine politics amid rumoured tension with the President’s sister, Karina Milei, ahead of crucial midterm vote.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

SOCIETY

Child poverty on rise in northwest and northwest of Argentina

24-06-2025 14:18 Child poverty as measured by UCA watchdog dropped from 58.8% to 52.8% nationwide between second halves of 2023 and 2024. But the drop was uneven and, in some parts of Argentina’s north, the situation even worsened.

by Agustina Bordigoni

POLITICS

Milei vetoes aid fund for flood-ravaged Bahía Blanca

24-06-2025 13:19 President Milei strikes down law to create special relief and reconstruction fund for Bahía Blanca.

POLITICS

Fernández de Kirchner claims police are attempting to provoke supporters

20-06-2025 22:47 Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, confined to house arrest as she serves a six-year jail term, urges supporters not to gather as police deploy near her apartment.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Cristina, wherefore art thou? Argentina on (permanent) CFK balcony watch

19-06-2025 21:41 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be allowed to go out onto the balcony of her apartment while serving house arrest for corruption, the court enforcing the sentence confirmed on Thursday.

CFK GRAFT CONVICTION

'We will return,' Fernández de Kirchner tells crowd in Plaza de Mayo

18-06-2025 17:08 Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner told her followers in the Plaza de Mayo on Wednesday that "we will return" as she began her first full day in detention.

'Vialidad' corruption case

House arrest for CFK – 10 keys from the court ruling

18-06-2025 16:51 Key points from the resolution authorising Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to serve out her six-year prison sentence at home in the Constitución neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

'ARGENTINA WITH CRISTINA'

Tens of thousands rally in support of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

18-06-2025 16:02 Peronist, Kirchnerite groups rally for 'Argentina with Cristina' march; Mass protest outside Government House follows Supreme Court ruling confirming corruption sentence.

'ARGENTINA WITH CRISTINA'

Fernández de Kirchner’s supporters march in Buenos Aires

18-06-2025 13:31 Protesters denounce conviction ordering former president to serve six-year jail term and enforcing lifetime ban on public office; Former president granted house arrest by courts.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner sentenced to house arrest in graft case

17-06-2025 23:29 Former president will need to wear an electric monitoring device, as well as provide the court a list of her family members, security, doctors and lawyers who will be allowed to visit her at the property.

THE KIRCHNER FAMILY

Máximo and Florencia in spotlight – Kirchner kids make preparations for mother’s lengthy detention

16-06-2025 17:44 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s children are back in the spotlight after confirmation of the ex-president’s corruption conviction – Máximo speaks and appears publicly after radio silence, but Florencia is the one who will host her mother in the years to come.

by Pablo Varela

POLITICS

‘Argentina with Cristina’ – Allies to join CFK at federal court surrender

16-06-2025 17:15 Kirchnerite, Peronist factions to mobilise for march on Comodoro Py federal courthouse after Supreme Court upholds six-year prison sentence and political ban for corruption charges.

POLITICS

CFK's supporters keep vigil over threat of prison

14-06-2025 23:38 Hundreds gather outside the Supreme Court in Buenos Aires in show of support for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after her conviction.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

What is a Supreme Court for?

14-06-2025 06:45 Cristina was a fading political star long before Argentina’s Supreme Court confirmed her conviction sentence.

by Marcelo J. García

EDITORIAL

Convicted, confirmed, confined

14-06-2025 06:41 Ground-breaking landmark ruling or the chronicle of a decision foretold?

As I see it

Tougher times for politicians on the take

14-06-2025 06:41 Argentina is turning into a country in which even the most powerful among them understand that they would be well advised to respect the letter of the law.

by James Neilson

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Chronicle of a guilty sentence foretold

14-06-2025 06:34 There is an unwritten rule that the Supreme Court does not intervene in electoral processes. But something different happened here, forcing the tribunal to rule and accept it would be questioned for blocking one of Argentina’s most popular politicians from running. Internal rumblings of the highest political order as the triumvirate attempts to mask its fractures.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner to present herself before courts on Wednesday

13-06-2025 11:17 Ex-president confirms in social media posts she will appear at the Comodoro Py federal courthouse on Wednesday; She says she will do this to “comply with the law” and states house arrest “is not a privilege,” highlighting security concerns.

POLITICS

CFK conviction prompts political shockwaves, protests

13-06-2025 10:49 Supporters of convicted ex-president react with anger to ruling – what next for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Peronism and the national political landscape?

POLITICS

New Peronist generation must now grow without Cristina

12-06-2025 13:52 Leandro Santoro, Juan Grabois, Juan Monteverde and Axel Kicillof are the most visual leaders of a post-Kirchnerite generation which is trying to renew the party without supremos or fanaticism.