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1 week ago | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Frances Jenner |Miguel Goyeneche |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Decade-old monetary restrictions imposed on Argentinians were lifted on Monday following President Javier Milei’s administration’s announcement on April 11 that the government had signed a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — the third for Argentina in the past seven years.
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1 month ago | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Frances Jenner |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Buenos Aires’ downtown became a battlefield on March 12 when a protest of retirees, supported by soccer fans and hooligans, was violently broken up by police near the Argentine Congress. Meanwhile, inside the Parliament building, another brawl broke out between government and opposition forces as a proposal to strip President Javier Milei of his “superpowers” was introduced, with the session being adjourned before it could be discussed.
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1 month ago | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Michael Krumholtz |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Javier Milei made international headlines in recent weeks, but not in a way he may have wanted. The president of Argentina is under investigation in both his country and the United States for the $Libra cryptocurrency scandal, a “rug pull” that caused up to $300 million in losses for investors.
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2 months ago | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Frances Jenner |Miguel Goyeneche |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Thousands of people over the weekend marched in cities across Argentina to protest President Javier Milei’s recent remarks made at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he linked homosexuality to pedophilia. The “anti-fascist, anti-racist” demonstrations took place across Argentina, with a large concentration gathering outside government buildings in the capital Buenos Aires.
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2 months ago | 
argentinareports.com | Elizabeth Bratton |Frances Jenner |Miguel Goyeneche
A Federal Judge in Argentina has ruled that the country’s Navy should be prohibited from “purging” or “shredding” documents stored in its general archive. The ruling comes amid steps taken by President Javier Milei’s government to minimize the historical significance of Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 until 1983 and resulted in the murder or disappearance of an estimated 30,000 people.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Frances Jenner |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Two drivers of a Russian diplomatic car refused a breathalyzer test on Christmas morning in Buenos Aires’ upscale Recoleta neighborhood and took refuge in their vehicle. After refusing to provide the car’s documentation, both were escorted back to the Russian Embassy by diplomatic staff and local police.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Sebastián Mora |Frances Jenner |Miguel Goyeneche
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s political aspirations faced a major setback in November when an Argentine appeals court upheld a sentence barring her from running for office for corruption. The final decision on whether she can appear as a congressional candidate on the 2025 ballot will be made — and probably delayed — by Argentina’s Supreme Court.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Sofia Caro Valencia |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — The European Union (EU) and Mercosur reached a historic trade agreement on December 6, signed during a meeting of the South American bloc in Montevideo, Uruguay. The agreement has been 25 years in the making and appeared to be ready for approval in 2019, but pushback, mostly from France, delayed its approval. Policymakers promise “this time it’s different,” but the future of the agreement is yet unclear.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Frances Jenner |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina – President Javier Milei’s drastic austerity measures aimed at improving Argentina’s flailing economy have shown better results in recent months. The libertarian president’s ambition to eliminate bureaucracy and red tape have become one of the main focuses of his cabinet, including cutting public works budgets, and slashing education spending.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
argentinareports.com | Sebastián Mora |Miguel Goyeneche |Frances Jenner
Buenos Aires, Argentina – This week, Brazil officially requested the extradition of 63 individuals allegedly residing in Argentina who are wanted for crimes related to the January 8, 2023 attacks on its government headquarters. For months there have been reports of Brazilians who had crossed the border illegally into Argentina to seek asylum, but Argentina’s government has remained rather tight-lipped about asylum requests.
