From the trenches in Argentina: A week of intense protests

That Javier Milei’s government has not failed to face protests is not new. But in the last week, the atmosphere became heavier. On Wednesday, while thousands of Argentines were protesting near the Congress, in Buenos Aires, the government managed to approve a new loan with the International Monetary Fund that adds to the $44 billion approved in 2018. “Long live freedom, fuck!” the president held in X. Outside, more than 2,000 officers were prepa…

The government faces a new week relieved by the agreement with the IMF. Despite the promise of foreign exchange, chaos continues to reign in Congress and Casa Rosada, where they saw cumshots and screams, although there were also signs of love. Meanwhile, the financial world ate a plant, and PRO Buenos Aires, a slam.

The spokesperson of the organization said that "a broad political and social support can improve the implementation of the program." The leaks and the market vision. Two recent surveys reveal that the Argentines mostly reject the new agreement that the National Government seeks to sign with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and for which it already counts the blind authorization of the Congress. According to the investigations that the consu…

Javier Milei had closed the 2024 with good positive image numbers. This was reflected by the interesting index of consumer confidence produced monthly by the Di Tella University: it had rebounded strongly in October, November, December and January after a failed September marked by the debate on retirements and universities. In February, however, the consumer confidence index dropped and the same happened in March in a more pronounced way. The n…

From the first days of April a new map of Argentine politics will be displayed in the face of the October elections: Javier Milei’s government is moving towards a relaunch of his management with a range of strategies to be implemented and the opposition is beginning to unify forces against the official measures. Paradoxes of the politics seen in the last days in Argentina. In Casa Rosada they read as a "abublishing" victory the approval of the D…

On January 9, Argentina paid a debt maturity of more than USD 4.3 billion, in a context of economic recovery, reduction of inflation, contained gaps, country risk below 600 basis points and at the downside, and growing reserves, largely due to the success of laundering and the placing of dollar debt by private companies. In that context, the government stated that there was no hurry to sign a new agreement with the IMF and that it was not clear …