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Are Argentina and the USA preparing an alternative route to the Panama Canal?

The star of the Argentine neoliberal firmament, Javier Milei, has become the living reflection of Trumpian incongruity, managing to make up for his lack of experience in public management with the media impact of his public interventions, while at the…

Argentina: the resumption of carnal relations with the United States

In a clear sign of the new carnal relations with the United States, Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei flew to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, to meet with the head of the US Southern Command, General Laura Richardson,…

Argentina: a nervous top and a bottom that is already moving

The application of neoliberal-libertarian dogma has plunged Argentina into its worst crisis in more than two decades in the space of a hundred days, thanks to a government that has – deliberately – pulverized the purchasing power of workers and…

A massive march for memory, truth and justice, on the first 24 March of a denialist government

A crowd gathered in the Plaza de Mayo this Sunday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, on the 48th anniversary of the coup d’état, on an unprecedented 24 March with a national government that, for…

Argentina: destabilization from within

A serious error in coordination and in the political relationship that unites them has led the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and his vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, to what seems to be the beginning of a new stage in an ultra-right government…

Argentina: Social peace (what little was left) at high risk

The sad events that took the lives of a taxi driver and a bus driver in the city of Rosario are well-known throughout the country. These events are being investigated by the courts, while the government, in a show of…

Cruelty and misogyny, are the keys to contempt for citizens’ rights

Javier Milei came to power by displaying his contempt for the expansion of rights in general, and the agenda of the women’s movement in particular (“violence has no gender”, “there is no wage gap”). His criticisms of what he calls…

Argentina: Fears of spillover discontent

Before his speech opening the legislative sessions, Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei argued that “as long as Congress has its current composition, we believe it will be difficult to pass reforms,” leaving the impression that he plans to rule by…

Argentina: Mileinato loses centrality, Macri and Cristina enter the arena

The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was a political-territorial entity established by the Spanish Crown in the Americas as an integral part of the Spanish Empire from 1776 to 1810, with the port of Buenos Aires as its…

A rally for the release of Julian Assange to be held in Argentina on 20 February

The activist group “Libertad Assange Argentina” is organizing a big event and art festival in defense of the Australian journalist Julian Assange on Tuesday 20 February, starting at 17:00. The event will take place in the emblematic Plaza de Mayo…

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