PRAGUE (AP) — Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei wrapped up his brief trip to three European Union countries by visiting the Czech Republic on Monday. Milei met Czech leaders, including his counterpart, retired Gen. Petr Pavel and conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and gave a speech at a conference on how to deal with […]
Insights from El País, La Nación, Wilson Center, and The Economist The News Argentinian President Javier Milei will visit the Czech Republic today, marking the final leg of a controversial European tour. The trip saw Milei skip meetings with Spanish government officials in favor of a right-wing leader and drew protesters in Germany during a […]
Javier Milei, the Argentine president, hopes his country’s copper reserves can help lift its economy out of the doldrums – Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America The Los Azules mining project is nestled in a beautiful yet austere stretch of the Andes. Just a few miles from the border with Chile, it is one of the […]
(Bloomberg) — Four months into office, Argentine President Javier Milei has pulled off a critical feat in a country long ravaged by runaway inflation: He stabilized the currency. Most Read from Bloomberg The peso has, in fact, not only stopped plunging day after day but in one key foreign-exchange market — there are many of […]
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Javier Milei, the fiery, right-wing populist president of Argentina, gave Donald Trump on Saturday an ecstatic hug a day after meeting with Biden administration officials in Buenos Aires. Trump and Milei were the biggest speakers to wrap up the annual Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington. During their backstage greeting, […]
(Bloomberg) — Argentina’s consumer prices slowed on a monthly basis during President Javier Milei’s first full month in office as he continued to implement parts of his shock therapy economic plan. Most Read from Bloomberg Inflation cooled to 20.6% in January from a month earlier, slightly below economists’ expectations of 21%. From a year ago, […]
Illustration: Lex Villena After enacting sweeping reforms in Argentina, President Javier Milei faced a major protest. Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets, hundreds of flights were grounded, and schools and businesses closed in protests to Milei’s attempt to fix the troubled South American country. Milei is the first self-described libertarian head of […]
(Bloomberg) — Argentine President Javier Milei is seeking to extinguish decades of government intervention in the nation’s oil industry by unshackling crude exports and leaving local fuel prices at the whim of market forces. Most Read from Bloomberg Milei included such measures in sweeping legislation he sent to congress on Wednesday, the latest move since […]
President-elect Javier Milei takes questions from the press after his victory in the presidential runoff election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 19, 2023. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption toggle caption Natacha Pisarenko/AP President-elect Javier Milei takes questions from the press after his victory in the presidential runoff election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 19, 2023. Natacha […]