Bolivia’s fuel crisis could cause a populist turn
‘Some of them will have been waiting for two days.’ My taxi driver was pointing at a queue of lorries,…
Milei freed the peso. Argentina’s economy survived
It was Argentina’s ‘liberation day’, Javier Milei proclaimed last week after meeting US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the Pink…
Javier Milei has cut poverty
Javier Milei has reduced poverty in Argentina. This week brought the publication of a tranche of government poverty figures, covering…
The reason Javier Milei is releasing Argentina’s secret Nazi files
In the Oscar-nominated movie The Holdovers, one of the characters says in a moment of frustration: ‘I thought all the…
The crypto crash haunting Javier Milei
When Javier Milei took power in Argentina there was one group whose ears pricked up with interest: the global crypto…
What Elon Musk can learn from Javier Milei
Did Argentina pave the way for Elon Musk’s Doge? At the very least, Javier Milei’s famous chainsaw has provided a…
How Javier Milei found $18 billion
When Domingo Cavallo implemented at the start of December 2001 a restriction on cash withdrawals, he unwittingly unleashed a month…
Uruguay’s elections have become overshadowed by a referendum
Uruguayans have long been able to look across the Rio Plata to their larger and louder neighbours in Argentina and…
Javier Milei could be in trouble
President Javier Milei isn’t believed to have attended Sir Paul McCartney’s Buenos Aires concerts last weekend, but if he had,…
Why is Javier Milei spending more on Argentina’s army?
Bitter austerity is biting in Argentina as the new president enacts the brutal cuts he promised in a bid to…
Javier Milei wants AI to predict crime
In the sci-fi movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a police officer investigating ‘pre-crimes’ – those which are yet to happen, but are predicted…
A football chant is causing problems for Javier Milei
When the final whistle blew and Argentina’s players celebrated another Copa America triumph – the icing on the cake of…
Javier Milei is popular, despite Argentina’s protests
A glimpse into the mindset of Javier Milei was given by his decision this week to retweet a picture on social media…
Javier Milei is torn between the West and China
Javier Milei pledged to ‘make Argentina great again’ when he took to the stage in February at the CPAC meeting…
Can Javier Milei win his fight against Argentina’s strikers?
An alliance with the trade union movements helped catapult Juan Peron, the icon of Argentine politics, to the presidency in…
Is Javier Milei abandoning his radicalism already?
When Labour’s Liam Byrne left a note for the incoming coalition Treasury team in 2010 which said ‘I’m afraid there…
The new chainsaw wielding leader of Argentina
The location was the same – the circumstances starkly different. Almost 12 months ago, hundreds of thousands of people gathered…
