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What’s next for the EU-Mercosur trade deal?

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Cristina Kirchner to stand trial over memorandum with Iran

Argentina’s Supreme Court has ordered former President and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to stand trial for the signing of a...

06.12.2024 20

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Herald favorites: Ice cream shops around Buenos Aires

Ice cream shops are known as heladerías in Spanish, like an Italian gelatería, but with an H. That’s no coincidence: many Argentine heladerías...

11.11.2024 5

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US election 2024: Four keys to understanding Trump’s position on Latin America

06.11.2024 10

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Armed groups in Bolivia take military facilities, Arce blames Morales supporters

Armed groups took over military facilities in the tropical region of Cochabamba department on Friday, as the hostilities between Morales’s backers...

02.11.2024 30

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Analysis: Did Kirchner and Kicillof make up at the Abuelas’ anniversary?

Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof made a prominent public appearance together at the...

24.10.2024 10

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What is the ‘pink cocaine’ Liam Payne reportedly consumed before his death?

Media outlets around the world have reported that former One Direction star Liam Payne consumed “pink cocaine” before he fell to his death at a...

23.10.2024 60

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Milei sparks fury with Cristina Kirchner coffin comment

President Javier Milei has triggered outrage after saying during a television interview that he would like to “put the final nail in the coffin of...

21.10.2024 30

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Authorities in Argentina investigate how Liam Payne got drugs taken before his death

Investigators in Argentina are seeking to establish who provided the drugs that they believe former One Direction star Liam Payne consumed before he...

19.10.2024 40

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Argentine authorities investigate whether Liam Payne died by suicide

Argentina’s public prosecutor is investigating whether former One Direction star Liam Payne died by suicide, a source with the Buenos Aires City...

17.10.2024 10

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Government files ‘Hojarasca Law’ to cut dead letter regulations

Bad news, prospectors. If the government gets its way, Argentina will no longer award metal trophies to individuals who discover a coal mine. The...

14.10.2024 20

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Argentina-UK Malvinas pact is a ‘diplomatic tragedy,’ critics say

Malvinas veterans and opposition politicians have excoriated President Javier Milei’s government after it announced on Tuesday that Argentina is...

26.09.2024 30

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Argentina and UK to resume Malvinas humanitarian work, flights

Argentina and the UK will resume negotiations on a humanitarian mission on the Malvinas Islands, the countries’ foreign ministers have announced....

25.09.2024 10

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Argentina to ready OECD membership self-assessment by late 2024

Argentina’s Foreign Minister Diana Mondino and OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann confirmed that the Argentine government would complete the...

31.08.2024 40

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Malaysian Ambassador: ‘The RIGI is a work in progress’

The Herald spoke to Azman Rahim, Malaysian Ambassador to Argentina, about Argentina’s RIGI large investment regime, what it means for the...

01.08.2024 40

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Venezuela opposition leaders claim to have proof of election fraud

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado announced that her team had set up a parallel electronic vote counting system demonstrating that...

30.07.2024 40

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Bolivia recalls ambassador to Argentina after Milei calls coup bid ‘fraudulent’

Bolivia has recalled its ambassador to Argentina for consultations and called Argentina’s ambassador in for questioning after President Javier...

02.07.2024 40

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Bolivia’s President Arce reports ‘irregular’ military maneuvers

Bolivian President Luis Arce warned that ‘irregular’ military maneuvers were taking place and called for democracy to be respected minutes before...

26.06.2024 8

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Argentina protesters facing charges include family selling sausages, man leaving subway

By Facundo Iglesia and Amy Booth. Cover photo: Mariano Fuchila At least 33 people arrested during protests against the Bases Law on Wednesday have...

15.06.2024 30

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She survived Auschwitz. Then Argentina’s dictatorship took her child

Sara Rus’s loved ones remember her as a woman who loved to dance. Cheerful, musical, and full of an infectious verve, she always animated those...

23.05.2024 30

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Spanish businesses reject Milei’s comments: ‘It’s not the tone of two friendly countries’

Antonio Garamendi, president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations, has rejected President Javier Milei’s derogatory statements...

20.05.2024 60

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Coalición Cívica to break with Hacemos Coalición Federal over labor reforms

The center-right Coalición Cívica (CC) party will break away from the Hacemos Coalición Federal (HCF) alliance because of differences over labor...

29.04.2024 80

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Once more unto the breach: second version of Milei’s omnibus bill goes to debate

Argentina’s congressional commissions have approved a final edition of the second version of President Javier Milei’s omnibus bill, his flagship...

26.04.2024 20

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Argentina economic activity fell again in February as manufacturing, retail slump

Economic activity in Argentina in February slumped by 0.2% monthly and 3.2% year-on-year, a report from the INDEC statistics bureau showed. The...

24.04.2024 10

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I wouldn’t be in Argentina if it weren’t for public education

It was the most daunting Google Meet of my life. On Wednesday, at half past eight in the morning, I presented my thesis research to a panel of three...

23.04.2024 40

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Commission debates Milei’s new bill on tax amnesty, lower income tax threshold

A commission in Argentina’s congress on Thursday began debating a new fiscal reform bill that President Javier Milei filed Wednesday afternoon. The...

18.04.2024 8

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Herald favorites: Ice cream shops around Buenos Aires

Ice cream shops are known as heladerías in Spanish, like an Italian gelatería, but with an H. That’s no coincidence: many Argentine heladerías...

13.04.2024 20

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An ode to Buenos Aires: the Casa Rosada is dusty red, actually

This piece was delivered as a reading at our first Herald Night, An Ode to Buenos Aires. Join us for the next one on April 18 at Sheikob’s Bagels, 8...

04.04.2024 20

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‘We have to recognize the past more effectively’: South African rights defender Zaid Kimmie

South African nonprofit the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) was formed in 1996 to watch over human rights after the end of Apartheid. The...

24.03.2024 30

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‘We’re talking 12 and younger’: one in 20 teen girls in Argentina lives with a partner

The girl was in a pastel-pink jumper under the tree, twirling her pen. She was pondering the question: what would you tell a girl of your age who’s...

08.03.2024 30

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Chubut threatens to cut oil and gas unless national government transfers tax funds

Chubut will stop sending oil and gas to the rest of Argentina unless the national government releases AR$13.5 billion in federal tax revenues, the...

24.02.2024 10

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In 33-page document, CFK warns Argentina is on brink of third debt crisis

Former President and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) published a 33-page document on Wednesday morning, arguing that Argentina is...

14.02.2024 10

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Milei’s deputies present bill to overturn legalization of abortion

Six deputies from Milei’s La Libertad Avanza coalition have presented a bill that would criminalize elective abortion in Argentina, overturning the...

08.02.2024 30

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‘Argentina can’t continue with this crisis,’ says senior US official

Brian A. Nichols, a senior official within the U.S. state department, said Tuesday that Argentina needs a “change of era” to fix its economic...

07.02.2024 10

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Argentina’s lower house approves Milei’s omnibus bill after marathon debate

President Javier Milei’s controversial omnibus bill is one step closer to becoming law.  Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies approved the...

03.02.2024 9

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Government axes income tax plan, limits power delegation before bill vote

Presidential spokesman Manual Adorni confirmed on Monday that the latest draft of the omnibus bill no longer proposes to delegate legislative powers...

29.01.2024 10

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Infrastructure Minister Ferraro fired over alleged Milei comment leaks, press report

Infrastructure Minister Guillermo Ferraro has been asked to resign over allegations that he leaked to the press threats President Javier Milei made to...

26.01.2024 20

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U-turn as Milei government submits bill to lower income tax threshold

President Javier Milei’s administration has sent a bill to Congress that would lower the income tax threshold. If approved, it would mark a change...

25.01.2024 10

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Argentina’s soy crush hit 19-year low in 2023

Argentine soy processors crushed the lowest volume of beans in 19 years in 2023, as record bean imports failed to compensate for a dismal harvest...

23.01.2024 7

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Donald Trump: ‘I look forward to helping’ Javier Milei

Former U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to voice his support for President Javier Milei on Friday. “The new President of Argentina,...

20.01.2024 30

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Argentina’s Milei says ‘more is coming’ as critics question decree

After issuing a vast decree on Wednesday night that attacks workers’ rights and clears the path for mass privatizations, President Javier Milei told...

21.12.2023 20

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Spontaneous protests erupted after Milei’s unprecedented deregulation decree

Barely had President Javier Milei finished announcing his 366-article economic megadecree on Wednesday night when the sound of angry people banging on...

21.12.2023 50

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Milei decrees sweeping economic deregulation and privatization measures

President Javier Milei took to Argentina’s national TV channel to announce a barrage of legal and economic deregulation measures that will...

21.12.2023 20

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How Colombia’s ‘false positives’ victims are seeking to try ex-President Uribe in Argentina

When Beyer Ignacio Pérez Hernández was offered a job building a bridge with his cousin three hours from home, near the small colonial town of...

16.12.2023 9

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Large fire breaks out at judiciary building on Avenida Alem

A huge fire broke out at a judiciary building in central Buenos Aires minutes before midday on Tuesday. The sixth and seventh floors of the building,...

12.12.2023 7

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Javier Milei is now president of Argentina

By Amy Booth and Martina Jaureguy Libertarian economist Javier Milei became president of Argentina at 11.57 a.m. on Sunday morning, at a ceremony in...

10.12.2023 20

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The Herald’s human rights map of the Americas

December 10 is internationally recognized as the day of human rights, and 2023 has certainly been a mixed year for human rights in the Americas. In...

09.12.2023 10

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