US EditionMilei’s high-stakes bid to hobble Argentina’s centre-right
- President Javier Milei took office in 2023 amid Argentina’s inflation exceeding 200%, with inflation later dropping to 2.2% by January 2025.
- His election followed severe economic instability driven by repeated crises, excessive government spending, and weak domestic consumption.
- Milei secured a $20 billion IMF Extended Fund Facility in April 2025, including $12 billion immediately, supporting disciplined monetary policy and declining poverty rates.
- Milei’s administration dismantled antitrust policies and granted control of the world’s largest copper, gold, and silver deposits to transnational corporations, reinforcing commodity dependence.
- While early economic indicators improve, Milei faces strong political opposition and worsening media freedom, with Argentina’s press ranking dropping 21 positions in 2024.
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Milei’s Reforms are Shock Therapy Argentina’s Economy Needs
From 1857 to 1930, 6.2 million Europeans, primarily from Italy and Spain, emigrated to Argentina, shaping its economy and society. By 1913, Argentina had one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, surpassing France, Germany, and Spain. In “Wealth, Poverty and Politics,” Thomas Sowell wrote, “As of 1914, foreigners — who were about 30 percent of the Argentine population — owned 72 percent of the commercial businesses in Argentina, and 82…
A new international blindfold could be placed on the Argentine economy. A particularly delicate question given the historical background throughout our contemporary history. The specificity of the new juncture responds less to an inadvertent “black swan” than to the unilateral determination of Donald Trump’s government to reverse, if only in part, the globalization that for decades has moved investments from the western industrial world to (thou…
They say the bill to expand the court goes into a much bigger combo.Two-thirds of the Senate, the main obstacle to progress.
The government must have gone on the defensive in the midst of cross accusations over the fall of Ficha Cleana. They rule out that it has an impact on the Buenos Aires elections and maintain that a pact with Cristina Kirchner is “unbelievable” for society. They follow the inmates in PBA: from Grabois candidate for the “piety” of a libertarian
Latin American Summary, May 12, 2025. “They are psychopaths from all sides,” the President said in an interview, in which he again denied the versions of his contacts with former missionary governor Carlos Rovira to fail the project in the Senate. He called the “yellows” of the PRO “liars” and returned to [...] La entrada Argentina. Milei follows the insults by Ficha Cleana was first published in Latin American Summary.
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