Science involves in Milei's Argentina: investment collapses and researchers decline

Traveling in time is one of the great dreams of human imagination and, in a way, Javier Milei is succeeding in making it a reality: Argentina’s science and technology system went back almost a quarter of a century thanks to the measures taken by the ultra government in its first 17 months of management. Successive cuts of funds took the funding of scientific research back to the level of 2002, when the South American country was going through th…

When the vote anointed Javier Milei as president of the Nation, it was to stop the free fall of Argentina into an institutional vacuum and radically modify the course imposed by Kirchnerism in economic and security matters.This heritage must be remembered, time and again.The lack of currency, the inflationary spiral, devastating poverty, the lack of investments, the energy crisis, the rupture of the social fabric, school absenteeism, the expansi…

The complete edition of Guillermo O'Donnell's work, presented in the Rodolfo Walsh room of the Buenos Aires Book Fair, is also an occasion to return to the foundations of Political Science vern cula. How do we think about the time around us? And even risk: what to think of Guillermo O'Donnell of this little and Milei?

The Argentine economic policy consolidation marked by President Javier Milei has entered a new phase. The loan agreement with the IMF and the foreign trade balance have created an opportunity to liberalize the foreign exchange market and strengthen market confidence. However, the measures are not without risk, as they threaten the peso with devaluation, making it more difficult to accumulate foreign exchange reserves and thus also to fight infla…

Latin American Summary, May 10, 2025. Javier Milei’s government celebrates the macroeconomic stability achieved, but hides the essential truths behind his results. Milei’s anchors for this stability are the geopolitics and income of Argentines. Internally, the administration does not liberalize prices: it imposes ceilings on paritarians, on salary [...] La entrada Argentina. Milei’s anchors: geopolitics and revenues was first published in Latin …