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Argentina’s economy: What Milei’s chainsaw approach has delivered in a year
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Argentina’s economy: What Milei’s chainsaw approach has delivered in a year

CNN  

London/Bogota/Buenos Aires CNN — Javier Milei swept to power in Argentina a year ago on a ticket to tackle chronic hyperinflation and overhaul the long-suffering economy. “One of the key underlying issues of Argentina’s woes the overvalued peso, which is eroding Argentina’s external competitiveness,” Kimberley Sperrfechter, emerging markets economist at consultancy Capital Economics, wrote in a recent note. Milei frequently …

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What is the power struggle between President Milei and Argentina’s soccer federation?
1 month ago

What is the power struggle between President Milei and Argentina’s soccer federation?

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina produces some of the best soccer players on the planet and has three World Cup titles to prove it. Tapia opposes Milei’s effort to enable soccer clubs to become sports limited companies, inspired by the model of the English Premier League. Milei, a libertarian economist who has pushed economic deregulation, signed a decree last December …

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Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago
1 month, 1 week ago

Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago

CNN  

CNN — Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from negotiations and return home, according to a source at the country’s foreign ministry. During his presidential campaign, Milei said that policies linking climate change to human actions were false, and accused climate scientists of being “lazy socialists.” Javier Milei, president …

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Teachers Demand Pay Raise as Argentina's Public Universities Are Paralyzed by Protests
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Teachers Demand Pay Raise as Argentina's Public Universities Are Paralyzed by Protests

Associated Press  

Argentina's public universities are paralyzed by protests as teachers demand a pay raise to compensate for sky-high inflation. The government has recently vetoed a bill raising pensions, which would have cost 1% of GDP. This has sparked widespread social unrest, with students taking over college campuses in the coming days ahead of another mass protest.

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President Milei renews his vow to scrap export taxes as Argentina’s powerful farmers get impatient
4 months, 3 weeks ago

President Milei renews his vow to scrap export taxes as Argentina’s powerful farmers get impatient

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Addressing crowds of struggling farmers in flat caps and home-knit sweaters who helped vault him to power but have grown increasingly impatient with his progress, President Javier Milei on Sunday vowed to scrap export taxes and rescue Argentina’s key agricultural industry. “No one is as eager as we, and me in particular, are to get out …

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Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Milei posted a photo on Instagram holding up a soccer jersey emblazoned with the …

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Massive protests in Argentina slam Milei’s education cuts
8 months ago

Massive protests in Argentina slam Milei’s education cuts

Al Jazeera  

President Milei ran on a promise of taking a chainsaw to public spending, and continues to defend his approach. Students and university professors were joined by the country’s powerful trade unions and opposition political parties as hundreds of thousands rallied on Tuesday against the effect of President Javier Milei’s radical austerity measures on public universities. Milei had brandished a chainsaw …

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Year in Review | Five elections that reshaped global politics in 2023
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Year in Review | Five elections that reshaped global politics in 2023

The Hindu  

Global politics continued to tilt to the right as several conservative parties pipped centrist governments in 2023. He promised in his campaign to ‘blow up’ the central bank, and followed through on December 22; Mr. Milei deregulated the country’s economy by eliminating or changing more than 300 rules via presidential decree. Building his campaign by promising to end the country’s …

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How did a far-right outsider rise to power in Argentina?
1 year ago

How did a far-right outsider rise to power in Argentina?

Al Jazeera  

In just three years, Javier Milei, an eccentric libertarian economist and regular participant on talk shows on TV, managed to create a political party and become president of Argentina. His rise to power began when the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns implemented to stem the virus’s spread deepened social discontent and made Milei’s pro-“liberty” rhetoric appealing to large segments of …

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Victims of Argentina’s dictatorship see step backward in Milei’s presidency
1 year ago

Victims of Argentina’s dictatorship see step backward in Milei’s presidency

Al Jazeera  

Buenos Aires, Argentina – At noon on January 12, 1977, soldiers burst into Alicia Partnoy’s home, tore her away from her 18-month-old daughter and threw her in the back of a truck. Revisionist history Since Argentina’s return to democracy four decades ago, human rights activists have fought to preserve the history of the dictatorship and hold its perpetrators accountable. A …

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Right-wing populist Milei set to take Argentina down uncharted path after winning power
1 year, 1 month ago

Right-wing populist Milei set to take Argentina down uncharted path after winning power

LA Times  

What many deemed impossible just months ago is reality: Right-wing populist Javier Milei resoundingly won Argentina’s presidency. “Milei has toned down his anti-establishment rage lately and downplayed his more outlandish proposals, but it’s going to be a wild ride, given his combative style, inexperience and the few allies he has in Congress.” Milei said in a radio interview he would …

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Argentina’s economy foundering on eve of general election
1 year, 1 month ago

Argentina’s economy foundering on eve of general election

Al Jazeera  

Winner between Sérgio Massa and Javier Milei will have to deal with debt mountain, soaring inflation, worsening poverty. Last month’s result surprised many political pollsters, given that Massa is presiding over an economy with an inflation rate of 142.7 percent, coupled with simmering frustrations about Argentina’s Peronist establishment. ‘Another debt restructuring likely’ “Massa will toe the Peronist line, attempting to …

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After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff
1 year, 2 months ago

After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff

The Hindu  

Argentina's economy minister and the anti-establishment upstart he faces in a presidential runoff next month began competing Monday to shore up the moderate voters they need. Mr. Massa focused his messaging in the latter part of the campaign on how Mr. Milei’s budget-slashing chainsaw would negatively affect citizens already struggling to make ends meet, with a particular focus on how …

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After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff
1 year, 2 months ago

After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s economy minister and the anti-establishment upstart he faces in a presidential runoff next month began competing Monday to shore up the moderate voters they need. Massa focused his messaging in the latter part of the campaign on how Milei’s budget-slashing chainsaw would negatively affect citizens already struggling to make ends meet, with a particular focus …

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A man, a plan, a chainsaw: How a power tool took center stage in Argentina’s presidential race
1 year, 2 months ago

A man, a plan, a chainsaw: How a power tool took center stage in Argentina’s presidential race

Associated Press  

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Politicians usually talk about belt tightening, or trimming wasteful spending with scissors. Presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei addresses his supporters at a campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. A supporter of presidential hopeful with the Liberty Advances coalition, Javier Milei, holds a statue of the candidate holding a …

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