News of vice president

Geraldo Alckmin, Lula’s rival-turned-vice-president, finds himself in unwanted limelight

19-12-2024 08:17 For decades, he was President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s political rival. Now his boss’s health issues have put Geraldo Alckmin at the centre of questions about Brazil’s future.

EDITORIAL

A little piece of heaven

23-11-2024 06:00 The launch of libertarian shock troops Las Fuerzas de Cielo was but one of various seismic movements in this jacaranda month of November.

POLITICS

‘Closer to the caste’ – Milei slams his own vice-president

20-11-2024 23:33 President Javier Milei opens up on relationship with Vice-President Victoria Villarruel, declaring in an interview that she has “no influence on decision-making” in his government and doesn’t take part in Cabinet meetings.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

VP Villarruel breaks ranks over Argentina-UK agreement

28-09-2024 09:54 Victoria Villarruel, Argentina’s military-loving vice-president, highlights disagreements over new accord and asks if United Kingdom is “playing us for fools”; New agreement between Buenos Aires and London is “contrary to national interest,” supports “occupation” and allows “plundering” of seas, she argues.

Congress & Politics

Milei's 'Ley de Bases' bill clears Senate as VP casts decisive vote

12-06-2024 23:24 Senate gives general approval to President Milei's 'Ley de Bases' mega-reform bill after fresh round of amendments.

POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS

Alberto González: ESMA torturer – and vice-president’s mentor

29-03-2024 21:02 He headed the dreaded “underground” of the ESMA Navy Mechanics School concentration camp. Convicted for crimes against humanity, Alberto González was also the first dictatorship-era criminal to be sentenced for rape. He is also the mentor of Argentina’s Vice-President Victoria Villarruel.

by Juan Luis González

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Villarruel vies with Karina Milei for influence over president

22-03-2024 18:29 Officially, Victoria Villarruel is Javier Milei’s second-in-command. But the president has left little doubt that there is only one adviser who truly has his ear: his younger sister Karina.

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

Boca election result is a victory for Riquelme and clubs nationwide

22-12-2023 13:47 Ibarra and Macri proceeded in a desperate campaign to link Boca’s legendary ex-playmaker with some sort of shadowy plot to construct the Xeneize as the last bastion of evil Kirchnerism. Their gambit backfired.

by Dan Edwards

POLITICS

Sister, vice-president, girlfriend – the women in Milei’s inner circle

06-12-2023 18:17 He is single, with no children, and very few trusted friends. Javier Milei, who as of this Sunday will be president of Argentina, has three women in his innermost circle: his sister, his vice-president and his girlfriend.

POLITICS & FOOTBALL

Riquelme says he will face Macri in battle for control for Boca

15-11-2023 16:14 Juan Román Riquelme, Boca's current vice-president, says he will run in December 2 elections; Retired playmaker will head a ticket facing a challenge from Andrés Ibarra and ex-president Mauricio Macri.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Florencio Randazzo: ‘If Milei is so awful, you should ask the politicians what happened’

23-09-2023 05:55 Florencio Randazzo, vice-presidential candidate for Hacemos por Nuestro País, on why he is “ashamed” of the current government, how the main coalitions benefit from polarisation and why Javier Milei’s rhetoric isn’t so irrational.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

News of vice president

Geraldo Alckmin, Lula’s rival-turned-vice-president, finds himself in unwanted limelight

A little piece of heaven

‘Closer to the caste’ – Milei slams his own vice-president

VP Villarruel breaks ranks over Argentina-UK agreement

Milei's 'Ley de Bases' bill clears Senate as VP casts decisive vote

Alberto González: ESMA torturer – and vice-president’s mentor

Villarruel vies with Karina Milei for influence over president

Boca election result is a victory for Riquelme and clubs nationwide

Sister, vice-president, girlfriend – the women in Milei’s inner circle

Riquelme says he will face Macri in battle for control for Boca

Florencio Randazzo: ‘If Milei is so awful, you should ask the politicians what happened’

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

'Welcome to hell': freed migrants tell of horrors in Salvadoran jail

Argentine policeman punished for letting detainees work at his wedding

World’s ‘precarious’ trade backdrop is hurting growth, IMF says

Colombian ex-president Uribe guilty of witness tampering

Mar del Plata: encontraron una bolsa con inscripciones chinas en el mar a más de 1.200 metros de profundidad

Alerta de tsunami en Chile, Ecuador y Perú por sismo de 8,8 en Rusia: ¿cuánto demora en llegar una ola tras un terremoto?

Cúneo Libarona le ofreció sus contactos judiciales, políticos y mediáticos a un exespía americano y la oposición exige su renuncia

Histórico terremoto de magnitud 8,7 en Rusia provocó alertas de tsunami, inundaciones y evacuaciones masivas

El CONICET explora el fondo del océano: la expedición Talud Continental IV revela un mundo desconocido frente a nuestras costas