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Is Argentina headed to dollarization? Two developments point in that direction

Is Argentina headed to dollarization? Two developments point in that direction
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Argentina’s Central Bank gets US$1 billion repo with five international banks

Argentina’s Central Bank gets US$1 billion repo with five international banks

Argentina’s Central Bank confirmed that it arranged a US$1 billion repo with five international banks, using its BOPREAL dollar-nominated...

04.01.2025 5

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Argentina’s Central Bank sells US$803 million in just three days

Argentina’s Central Bank sold US$803 million between Wednesday and Friday. On Thursday, the monetary authority had to part with US$599 million,...

28.12.2024 7

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Massive layoffs endanger dictatorship memorial sites, workers say

Human Rights Secretariat workers denounced that the government terminated the contracts of 400 staff members in December, jeopardizing the...

27.12.2024 4

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Argentina’s ex-ambassador to Venezuela accused of treason over arrested gendarme

The Argentine government has accused a former ambassador to Venezuela of treason after he arranged for the delivery of a letter to an Argentine...

27.12.2024 4

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Seven arrested in RainbowEx Ponzi scheme investigation

Seven people linked to the RainbowEx Ponzi scheme were arrested as part of a large-scale operation launched Thursday by a prosecutor’s office in...

21.12.2024 4

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Investment group buys debt, seeks soy firm Vicentin takeover

An investor group bought the US$447-million debt Vicentin, Argentina’s largest grain export company, had with multiple international banks. The...

19.12.2024 4

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Milei and Villarruel’s rift grows with row over expelled senator

President Javier Milei has said that the Senate session in which Edgardo Kueider was expelled over corruption allegations was void because his...

14.12.2024 4

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Exchange rate gap drops to 4%, a record low

The gap between the official and the parallel exchange rates averaged 4% on Tuesday, a historic low. The blue-chip swap exchange rate closed at AR$...

11.12.2024 4

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Argentina to start charging non-residents for universities, hospitals

The Argentine government will allow universities and hospitals nationwide to charge non-resident foreigners, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni...

04.12.2024 2

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Without LLA or the PRO, deputies approve a bill against online gambling addiction

Argentina’s Deputy Chamber approved a bill on Wednesday aimed at preventing online gambling addictions despite a lack of support from the ruling...

29.11.2024 3

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Milei snubs industrial congress as import liberalization looms

Argentina’s industrialists demanded government policies during the sector’s most important conference, which President Javier Milei snubbed...

28.11.2024 3

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CGT leader Moyano resigns amid infighting over a general strike

One of the three leaders of Argentina’s main trade union organization, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT by its Spanish acronym), resigned...

23.11.2024 2

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Caputo confirms Argentina is negotiating new deal with the IMF

Economy Minister Luis Caputo said Thursday that the Argentine government is engaged in “informal talks” with the International Monetary Fund...

23.11.2024 1

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Brazil coup attempt: Bolsonaro and 36 others face charges

Brazil’s Federal Police formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others of plotting a coup d’état in 2022 to prevent...

22.11.2024 10

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Opposition files complaint against Milei’s new ‘armed wing’

In a dimly lit theater Daniel Parisini, one of the government’s communication strategists, grabbed the microphone. “This group which we are...

21.11.2024 2

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Judge orders 61 Bolsonarista fugitives in Argentina be arrested

Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas has requested that 61 Brazilians who are living in Argentina and were convicted in Brazil for participating in the...

16.11.2024 3

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Argentina secures financial surplus for ninth month in a row

Argentina’s Economy Ministry announced Friday that the public sector had a AR$523.4 billion financial surplus in October — the ninth consecutive...

16.11.2024 1

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US advises Preska not to order Argentina to hand over YPF shares

A United States government attorney has told New York Judge Loretta Preska that she should not order Argentina to hand over shares of oil and gas...

08.11.2024 3

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Alberto Fernández summoned for questioning for gender-based violence, threats

Prosecutor Ramiro González requested that Alberto Fernández be summoned for interrogation in the case against the former Argentine president for...

07.11.2024 3

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Argentine stocks and bonds surge. But is Trump good for the country’s economy?

The shares of Argentine companies on Wall Street and sovereign bonds surged the day after Donald Trump was re-elected president of the United...

07.11.2024 3

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Schoolyard bookies: Argentine kids are betting online to earn cash

The kids in recess were laughing. Fabián Cadamuro, a teacher at a school in the Córdoba town of Cañada de Luque (population of 1,100), watched a...

02.11.2024 1

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Argentina Central Bank cuts annual benchmark rate 5 points to 35%

The board of Argentina’s Central Bank lowered the benchmark annual interest rate from 40% to 35% on Friday. The monetary authority also decreased...

02.11.2024 1

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UCR deputies split from party bloc, condemning support for Milei

Twelve deputies from Argentina’s oldest political party, the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR), broke ranks from the party bloc in the Chamber of...

25.10.2024 2

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No gold at the end of this rainbow: the scam that engulfed an Argentine town

This article was originally published on October 16, 2024 in Revista Anfibia. Cover art by Sebastián Angresano Around 8 p.m., the streets of the...

24.10.2024 2

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Outrage after government website site refers to the Malvinas as ‘Falklands’

An Argentine government website published a communiqué on Wednesday about a meeting between Foreign Minister Diana Mondino and a Red Cross...

24.10.2024 20

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University community holds open-air classes against Milei

Algebra, software engineering, psychology, economics, statistics — on Tuesday, more than 100 university professors gave their lessons outdoors in...

23.10.2024 2

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Seven detained outside Congress protesting university funding veto

Seven people were detained in a protest outside Congress after the Lower House confirmed President Javier Milei’s veto against increasing the...

10.10.2024 2

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Argentine mint’s future in doubt after government announces closure, backtracks

by Facundo Iglesia and Valen Iricibar In an apparent communications upset, the government announced that Argentina’s mint would be shut down...

03.10.2024 2

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Milei threatens university funding veto amid nationwide protests to protect it

by Facundo Iglesia and Valen Iricibar President Javier Milei is set to veto a university funding increase bill as thousands protested against...

03.10.2024 2

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Bukele set to meet Milei in Argentina amid concerns over human rights

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday and will get together with his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, on...

29.09.2024 3

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New decree allows government to swap debt in US dollars without Congress

Economists and opposition lawmakers are warning that an executive order sanctioned on Monday is paving the way for the government to restructure...

26.09.2024 1

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What does Milei’s ‘unbreakable fiscal rule’ mean?

Last Sunday, in a speech transmitted to TV stations all over the country, President Javier Milei explained the basics of the 2025 budget bill he...

26.09.2024 20

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US considers role in YPF expropriation case

The United States government has expressed interest in the YPF expropriation trial, asking presiding Judge Loretta Preska to postpone a ruling in...

12.09.2024 3

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Milei rails against scientists, demands party discipline in far-right event

President Javier Milei offered a mix of culture war and domestic politics in his speech at the Buenos Aires meeting of the Madrid Forum, an...

06.09.2024 3

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Man sentenced to life for Tehuel murder in Argentina’s first trans-homicide trial

Luis Alberto Ramos was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday afternoon for murdering Tehuel de la Torre, a 23-year-old trans man. De la Torre...

31.08.2024 2

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Government to roll back PAIS tax for imports, shipping to pre-Milei levels

Economy Minister Luis Caputo announced the government will lower the PAIS tax for imported goods and international shipping to 7.5%, after...

30.08.2024 1

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Libertarian lawmaker accused of possessing child abuse images flees before police arrest

Misiones provincial lawmaker Germán Kiczka is currently on the run after he fled his home before police could arrest him on accusations of...

24.08.2024 3

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Why Lijo is a controversial pick for Argentina’s Supreme Court

Federal judge Ariel Lijo went before Argentina’s Senate to make his case for a place on Argentina’s Supreme Court in the Senate on Wednesday. ...

22.08.2024 1

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U.S. court rules against Argentina in Aerolíneas Argentinas expropriation trial

A U.S. court ruled against Argentina on Tuesday in a case about the expropriation of the country’s flag carrier, Aerolíneas Argentinas, which...

21.08.2024 4

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Soup kitchens overwhelmed by demand as poverty skyrockets

Viviana Rodríguez feels powerless. The lines in the soup kitchen she manages in Villa 31 are getting increasingly longer after poverty in...

18.08.2024 2

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First RIGI project to be a YPF oil pipeline in Vaca Muerta

The first project to be built under the government’s newly launched large investment regime (RIGI) will be an oil pipeline called “Vaca Muerta...

17.08.2024 20

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Lower House rejects sanctioning deputies who visited dictatorship-era repressors

The Lower House voted against sanctioning five deputies from ruling coalition La Libertad Avanza (LLA) who visited dictatorship-era repressors...

15.08.2024 2

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LLA deputies photographed with convicted dictatorship-era repressors

A picture showing five La Libertad Avanza (LLA) deputies together with dictatorship-era repressors went viral on Tuesday after being published by...

07.08.2024 1

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Is the economy rising or getting worse? Depends on who you ask

If there is one fact that all political and economic actors can agree on, it is that Argentina is in the midst of an economic crisis. All...

03.08.2024 2

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Chaos in BA and Caracas as Argentina, Venezuela recall diplomats

Passport applications. Asylum requests. Consular procedures. In both Buenos Aires and Caracas, it’s all up in the air after a post-electoral...

02.08.2024 4

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‘We want hugs’: Venezuelans in Argentina see electoral hopes dashed

The news hit like a bomb outside Venezuela’s embassy in Buenos Aires.  Thousands of enthusiastic supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader...

29.07.2024 1

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Federico Sturzenegger: The phantom minister

This article was originally published in May 2024 for Revista Anfibia . It recounts economist Federico Sturzenegger’s long political trajectory,...

27.07.2024 2

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Relatives of French desaparecidos condemn Macron’s meeting with Milei

Relatives of French victims of the Argentine dictatorship have condemned President Emmanuel Macron’s upcoming meeting with his Argentine...

25.07.2024 1

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Argentina is evaluating asylum requests from more than 100 Brazilians

The Argentine National Refugee Commission confirmed to the Herald that the government is evaluating asylum requests from more than 100 Brazilian...

20.07.2024 1

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