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Dec 11, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Cimran Naik
Argentines have a pretty toxic relationship with politicians, marked by mistrust and questioning. This is clear – just look at the results of the last election: outsider Javier Milei stormed to the Presidency with his chainsaw promises, vowing to sweep away the political “caste.” In the run-off, the majority of voters then turned their backs and promptly voted ‘el Loco’ into office.
Humour is a national pastime, always present in times of crisis, as well as every season.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Michael Hirtzer |Ilena Peng |Cimran Naik
Donald Trump’s first trade war hurt American soybean farmers to the tune of US$11 billion. A sequel is set to be even worse.
The humble bean was the poster child of Trump’s first tariff spat with China, with American shipments to the world’s top buyer of the commodity tumbling 79 percent in the first two years of his administration. Back then, the Asian nation still needed some American supplies. Now it can simply live off purchases from rival Brazil.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Cimran Naik
Every year Argentina sees 5,000 new cases of HIV, according to Health Ministry data – an alarming statistic made even more concerning by the fact that 98 percent of those infections stem from unprotected sex.
Nevertheless, levels of new diagnoses have remained stable over the past two decades, underlining the progress the nation has made since the global crisis of the 1980s.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Cimran Naik
Argentina’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and several other defendants to stand trial for signing its controversial 1994 memorandum of understanding with Iran over the 1994 terrorist car-bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre.
The ruling was reached after the court rejected all defence appeals, court sources informed.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Cimran Naik
The national government has summoned Congress for extraordinary sessions between December 5 and 27 to debate six bills including the elimination of the PASO primaries via electoral reform, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni said Thursday.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Mauricio Rabuffetti |Alina Dieste |Cimran Naik
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday that a controversial free-trade deal between the EU and South America's Mercosur bloc was "in sight" as she arrived in Latin America to try finalize the accord despite fierce resistance from France.
The European Commission wants to conclude talks started more than 20 years ago with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on creating the world's biggest free trade zone.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Cimran Naik
Police in nine South American countries seized more than 3,400 homemade bombs and 28 metric tons of bomb-making materials in raids targeting the booming black market in explosives, Interpol said Thursday.
"We're seeing a disturbing rise in terror groups, organized crime and gangs using explosives -- from violent attacks to illegal mining operations," Valdecy Urquiza, secretary general of the global law enforcement organization, said in a statement.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Kevin Simauchi |Cimran Naik
Buenos Aires City is looking to return to international capital markets for the first time since 2016.
City officials were set to start meeting with investors on Tuesday to gauge appetite for a benchmark-sized bond, according to people familiar with the transaction who asked not to be identified as they’re not authorised to speak on the matter. BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank Securities, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Santander are arranging the meetings, they added.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Jonathan Gilbert |Ruth Liao |Cimran Naik
A plan to export liquefied natural gas from Argentina is gaining momentum, with four drillers in the country’s heralded shale patch now signed on to supply a facility with the fuel.
London-based oil company Harbour Energy Plc announced this week that it would acquire a 15 percent equity stake in the roughly US$3 billion floating liquefaction project, or FLNG, spearheaded by driller Pan American Energy Group and FLNG vessel provider Golar LNG Ltd.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Ignacio Olivera Doll |Cimran Naik
Looking at their hairstyles, social media and tactics against opponents, Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei seem to be cut from the same cloth. But style and substance are two different things.
The South American leader — with a chainsaw on his desk — has demonstrated an almost monomaniacal resolve to cutting spending, chewing into the social safety net at great risk to his political popularity.
