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Vote for change in Bolivia as two right-wing candidates head to presidential run-off

18-08-2025 13:42 Senator Rodrigo Paz was the surprise frontrunner, with 32.15 percent of the vote cast in an election dominated by a deep economic crisis, results published by the electoral commission showed.

Voters end two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia

18-08-2025 12:52 Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election run-off, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule.

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.

Milei’s purple patch

24-05-2025 06:38 The headlines all reflect a Milei triumph and a PRO catastrophe (the government objectives in almost equal measure), both accurate enough but also relative.

by Michael Soltys

More to lose than to win

16-05-2025 10:15 In the City, the battle for first place is less interesting than the struggle between the Mileis and the Macris.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

San Luis: Poggi’s ruling coalition defeats Rodríguez Saá’s Peronists

12-05-2025 18:35 Ahora San Luis front, led by Governor Claudio Poggi, defeats Peronist coalition of former provincial governor Alberto Rodríguez Saá. With 80% of votes counted, the ruling coalition has 46.8%, comfortably ahead of Frente Justicialista.

Divided right bolsters Peronism in City as Karina’s strategy put to test

28-04-2025 14:24 Polling firms put the Peronist ticket led by Leandro Santoro ahead in Buenos Aires City. Battle between Manuel Adorni and Silvia Lospennato will set tone for electoral year.

by Giselle Leclercq

City midterms: Tensions on right, but PRO vows clean fight

04-04-2025 14:52 Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni, who will run for the City legislature this May, promises to take up his seat if elected.

Macri is fighting for his life – he will lose

01-02-2025 08:48 Mauricio Macri is making a desperate attempt to keep his political structure alive — and under his wing.

by Marcelo J. García

Maduro sets 'public debate' on constitutional reform

29-01-2025 11:40 Days after his swearing-in for a third term in office amid allegations of electoral fraud, President Nicolás Maduro pledges to "integrate the popular power" into Venezuela's constitution.

Child benefits, food stamps, social policies ‘cannot be a stopgap’

28-09-2024 06:58 In the first half of 2024, child poverty reached 71 percent with over 1.5 million kids newly impoverished, according to a report from the ACIJ NGO. Despite cuts in the budget dedicated to children in diverse programmes, the AUH (Asignación Universal por Hijo) payment is reaching the highest number of people since 2021.

by Sabrina Chemen

Brazil, Spain struggle to shake criticism as Maduro enablers

25-09-2024 18:06 At a recent United Nations gathering, Brazilian President Lula and Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez faced scrutiny for their ambiguous stance on Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela.

Who covered up for Alberto Fernández?

12-08-2024 12:55 Social astonishment is multiplying in the face of the brazen hand-washing of leaders and ex-officials of the former Frente de Todos administration. 

by Javier Calvo

Argentina seek 'triple crown' but Colombia aim for upset in Copa América final

12-07-2024 16:42 A win would also give the Albiceleste a record 16th Copa America title, but Colombia are on an impressive streak of their own and will undoubtedly prove to be tough opponents.

Macri praises ‘honest’ and ‘well-intentioned’ Milei

07-03-2024 14:01 Horacio Rodríguez Larreta voices opposition to ‘co-government’ or ‘merger’ between PRO and La Libertad Avanza, criticises party colleague Patricia Bullrich's decision to join Javier Milei's government.

'Los dueños de la tierra': Argentina’s 20 biggest landowners

24-02-2024 06:25 Among those who concentrate the most terrain are businessmen and groups with between 100,000 and over a million hectares of land of every type. Some like Benetton or the Cresud, owned by Eduardo Elsztain, are better-known, but companies with Chinese, Swiss and Chilean capital also appear, along with bit players.

by Ariel Stemphelet

Milei to appoint ex-Menem-era advisor as energy secretary

28-11-2023 15:56 Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo set to be appointed energy secretary and given responsibility for unravelling and restructuring subsidies on public utilities.

Dollarisation is medium-term goal, Luis Caputo tells bankers

24-11-2023 22:06 Luis Caputo, who is leading Javier Milei’s economic team during the transition, tells banking executives in Buenos Aires that currency controls won't be lifted immediately and that dollarisation is a medium-term goal.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘PRO today is allying itself with an extreme rightist’

11-11-2023 04:23 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta on his PASO primary defeat, the future of Juntos por el Cambio, Macri and Bullrich’s decision to back Milei and what happens after December 10.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Demo calls for Hamas hostage release, month on from attack

07-11-2023 16:16 Organisations tie plush toys and teddies to Buenos Aires' famed Obelisk monument to draw attention the 40 babies, children and teenagers that have been hostage by Hamas since October 7. Among them, four Argentines aged between nine months and nineteen years.