(Bloomberg) — Argentine President Javier Milei fired his cabinet chief Nicolas Posse Monday as the government’s major reform bill has stalled in congress, marking the most high-level departure since Milei took office Dec. 10. Most Read from Bloomberg Milei accepted Posse’s resignation and replaced him with Interior Minister Guillermo Francos, according to a statement on […]
By Lucinda Elliott LA PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) -Argentine laborer Pablo Vazquez was finishing a day’s shift laying track for a train line near La Plata on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when the foremen called a dozen members of the team together to share bad news. The workers were all being let go. In a […]
The Spanish government withdrew its ambassador in Buenos Aires amid a deepening diplomatic scandal unleashed during Argentinian President Javier Milei’s visit to Madrid at the weekend. “The situation has not changed and I am therefore announcing that we are withdrawing our ambassador in Buenos Aires. The ambassador will definitely remain in Madrid,” Foreign Minister José […]
Spain has said it is pulling its ambassador from Argentina in response to comments made by Argentine President Javier Milei. Mr Milei accused the Spanish prime minister’s wife of corruption and described socialism as “cursed and carcinogenic”. Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told reporters that the Spanish ambassador to Argentina “will definitely stay in […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Spain on Tuesday said it was pulling its ambassador from Argentina in response to comments made by Argentine President Javier Milei, who accused the Spanish prime minister’s wife of corruption and described socialism as “cursed and carcinogenic.” Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told reporters Tuesday that the Spanish ambassador […]
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has summoned the Argentinian ambassador in Madrid after Argentinian President Javier Milei verbally attacked Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife, Albares said on Monday. Argentina’s ultra-liberal leader Milei attended an election rally organized by the Spanish right-wing populist party Vox for the European elections in Madrid on […]
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has summoned the Argentinian ambassador in Madrid after Argentinian President Javier Milei verbally attacked Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife, Albares said on Monday. Argentina’s ultra-liberal leader Milei attended an election rally organized by the Spanish right-wing populist party Vox for the European elections in Madrid on […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina’s President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife during a far-right rally in Madrid. Milei had called Sanchez’s wife Begona Gomez “corrupt” during a rally in Madrid organised by the far-right Vox party and […]
(Bloomberg) — Argentines are rushing to banks to apply for mortgages as interest-rate reductions since President Javier Milei took power begin to wake the home-loan market from a six-year slumber. Most Read from Bloomberg “People are very anxious, inquiries overflowed our communication channels and we are overwhelmed,” Daniel Tillard, president of Banco Nacion, the country’s […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — 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. Main avenues and streets, as well as major […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s industrial output plunged 21.2% in March from a year ago, the INDEC statistics agency said on Wednesday, the worst slide since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic as libertarian President Javier Milei pushes a tough austerity package. The new government, which inherited an economic crisis with triple-digit inflation when it took […]
(Bloomberg) — Argentina’s lower house approved President Javier Milei’s omnibus and fiscal bills, first in whole and later in parts, in a major win for the libertarian leader whose reforms now face a stiffer fight in the senate. Most Read from Bloomberg House representatives agreed Tuesday that Milei should have expanded executive powers on administrative, […]