• May 12 2025
  News in-depth

  Milei’s high-stakes bid to hobble Argentina’s centre-right

  Libertarian’s split with former president Mauricio Macri turns Buenos Aires into conservative battleground

  
• April 25 2025
  Javier Milei

  Milei taunts economists as Argentina’s peso defies predictions of sharp fall

  Currency is well above its lower limit after partial float but remains volatile

  
• March 11 2025
  Argentina’s Milei signs decree paving way for IMF loan deal

  Libertarian leader shields long-awaited agreement from potential defeat in opposition-dominated senate

  
• February 25 2025
  Javier Milei

  Argentina’s Milei to bypass senate to name supreme court judges

  Libertarian leader’s use of controversial clause threatens to spark fight with opposition

  
• February 18 2025
  Javier Milei

  Memecoin scandal rocks Argentina’s Milei

  Opposition calls for president’s impeachment after he promoted a cryptocurrency that plunged in value

  
• February 14 2025
  Milei’s sister wields ‘guillotine’ against dissent in the Argentine state

  Dozens of exits from libertarian government include firings by Karina, the president’s chief of staff sibling

  
• February 5 2025
  Milei to follow Trump’s lead and pull Argentina out of WHO

  Libertarian leader has embraced upheaval in international institutions triggered by US president

  
• February 1 2025
  Milei pins dream of privatising Argentine football on one club

  US investor’s pursuit of a stake in Estudiantes fuels push to overhaul non-profit model

  
• January 23 2025
  Argentina

  Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal

  Argentine government explores proposal to follow US in quitting landmark agreement

  
• November 13 2024
  Argentina

  Milei eyes Trump friendship to win IMF loan for Argentina

  Libertarian leader seeks IMF loan while positioning himself as US president-elect’s ally in culture war against the ‘woke’ left

  
• October 28 2024
  Falkland Islands

  Argentina ready to boost flights to Falklands, says foreign minister

  Diana Mondino says airlines will have to decide ‘frequency’ in sign of warmer relations with the UK over the islands

  
• October 24 2024
  InterviewArgentina

  Argentines still love the big state despite Milei, says top Peronist

  Axel Kicillof says voters prefer ‘a bigger and better state’ despite electing libertarian

  
• October 23 2024
  Michael Stott

  Milei’s pivot from radical outsider to pragmatist

  Since taking office the Argentine leader has become a bit more polished and presidential

  
• October 9 2024
  InterviewArgentine economy

  Argentina’s Milei says his ‘regime of freedom’ not ready to drop currency controls

  ‘We are not communists,’ says president in Financial Times interview

  
• August 23 2024
  Milei suffers defeat on pension spending in Argentina’s senate

  Libertarian leader vows to veto increase, describing vote as ‘act of populist demagogy’

  
• August 15 2024
  News in-depth

  Scandals plunge Milei’s Peronist rivals into crisis

  Argentina’s leader set to benefit as abuse claims hammer his predecessor

  
• June 13 2024
  Argentina’s Javier Milei wins senate approval for economic reforms

  Votes boost libertarian president but lawmakers strike down plan to restore income tax for high earners

  
• June 8 2024
  ObituaryNora Cortiñas

  Nora Cortiñas, campaigner for Argentina’s ‘disappeared’, 1930-2024

  Mother whose five-decade search for her abducted son helped power a hugely successful human rights movement

  
• June 3 2024
  News in-depth

  Argentina’s Milei turns to an ‘anti-Milei’ to save his project 

  Guillermo Francos, the libertarian president’s new ‘super minister’, is a veteran political operator

  
• May 21 2024
  Spanish politics

  Spain permanently recalls Argentina envoy after Milei remarks

  Diplomatic move follows claim by libertarian president that Spanish prime minister’s wife was ‘corrupt’

  
• May 19 2024
  Javier Milei

  Milei triggers diplomatic row after calling Spanish PM’s wife ‘corrupt’

  Spain recalls ambassador after Argentine leader attacks Pedro Sánchez’s wife at far-right rally in Madrid

  
• April 30 2024
  News in-depth

  Javier Milei’s sister fights his political battle in Argentina

  Ex-baker holds keys to senior government roles but her growing prominence worries politicians and business leaders

  
• April 1 2024
  News in-depthArgentina

  Violence in Argentina’s drug capital tests Milei’s small-state vision

  Gang attacks on civilians have paralysed the port city of Rosario

  
• March 21 2024
  News in-depth

  Milei takes a chainsaw to Argentina’s state companies

  Libertarian leader slashes costs amid resistance to privatisations in Congress

  
• March 14 2024
  Argentina’s Senate rejects Milei’s deregulation push

  Senators turn down libertarian president’s sweeping emergency decree, calling it unconstitutional