Bessent Expects Argentina to Be Able to Pay Off China Swap Line

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Scott Bessent, said that there will be no extra credit line for Argentina. It was in an interview he offered Bloomberg this Monday afternoon from Buenos Aires, after his meeting with President Javier Milei at Casa Rosada. “That is not under consideration,” he said. Besset arrived in the country after the approval of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to agree for US$20 billion, with US$12 bi…

Bessent Expects Argentina to Be Able to Pay Off China Swap Line

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects Argentina to be able to pay off its swap line with China, even though the US government isn’t considering providing the crisis-prone nation with any direct credit of its own.

Argentina’s Milei in Washington seeking trade deal with US

The NewsArgentina’s President Javier Milei will today meet US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with a possible trade deal on the agenda. Bessent’s show of support for Milei’s economic overhaul comes days after both the International Monetary Fund — which counts Buenos Aires as its biggest debtor — and the World Bank agreed new bailouts for Argentina. In his first year in power, Milei has managed to tame runaway inflation while boosting growth, …

Trump, Milei and the hemisphere’s most curious bromance

There’s a well-established “feedback loop” between Argentine President Javier Milei and President Donald Trump. But the solidarity obscures glaring differences in the context and history between their countries.

The Secretary of the Treasury consolidated his ascendant in the Oval Hall for his advice and warnings about the global crisis that was causing the imposition of reciprocal tariffs, and his lightning tour has on its agenda the trade links with the United States, the influence of China in Latin America and the reserves that Argentina possesses in strategic minerals and rare earths

Argentina and the United States have initiated a formal dialogue to agree on reciprocal conditions in bilateral trade, as announced on Monday in Buenos Aires by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Read