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Milei’s Struggles With Crypto Scandal Intensify March 17, 2025

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who was riding high earlier this year after having defeated hyperinflation in 2024, faces an increasingly tough political landscape after blundering into a major cryptocurrency scandal in February. ...

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Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First March 12, 2025

Even before President Javier Milei gifted the Boer billionaire a chain saw onstage at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the US right has long been fascinated by this country’s cherub-faced caudillo. ...

The Hells Angels Have Arrived in Latin America With a Low Profile March 05, 2025

In Brazil, walking through majority-black Salvador da Bahia’s working-class neighborhoods, one can now spot garages with the Hells Angels’ painted insignia, in Portuguese and English. Their compounds are confined, far from commercial areas, though a ...

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Argentina’s Memecoin Crisis Is Damaging Javier Milei February 19, 2025

Javier Milei is engulfed in a memecoin crisis. Last week, the Argentinian President recommended an obscure cryptocurrency called LIBRA....

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Argentina: After Milei Touts Crypto Threats of Impeachment Grow February 17, 2025

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To Stop Antisemitism, Find the Source February 10, 2025

People aren’t born antisemetic; they learn to hate Judaism from their surrounding culture. To counteract the rapid spread of antisemitism in the West, we must identify the source of its influence in our societies. Here are a few points to understand ...

Argentina To Withdraw From WHO February 05, 2025

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Bolivia’s Lithium Window Is Closing Rapidly February 03, 2025

In 2023, Bolivia signed multi-billion dollar deals for lithium extraction with Chinese and Russian state-owned companies, including the CBC consortium and Rosatom/Uranium One. Since then, despite these deals expanding further, very little progress ha...

The Argentine Miracle December 31, 2024

"You’re my favorite president!” Donald Trump reportedly told Javier Milei. ...

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Milei’s First Year Ends With Optimism December 26, 2024

For much of this month, praise for Argentina’s economic successes has become almost a cliché in newspapers throughout the world after President Javier Milei reached the milestone of one year in office surrounded by a sense of triumph....

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Milei Vindicated December 23, 2024

By all reasonable standards, Javier Milei should never have become president of Argentina. An outsider to the political class that rules the country, Milei is the son of middle-class parents with no public profile. ...

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Argentina Exited Recession as Milei Eyes Growth December 17, 2024

Argentina emerged from a brutal recession in the third quarter, boosting the odds that President Javier Milei heads into next year’s mid-term elections with growth on the rebound alongside cooling inflation....

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Milei: Musk and Trump Will Replicate the Argentina Model November 22, 2024

Elon Musk and Donald Trump would mimic Argentina’s model of deregulation and public spending cuts, Argentina President Javier Milei has claimed. ...

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Argentina’s Milei Pivots to Pragmatism, Talks With Xi November 20, 2024

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Latest From Argentina in Spending Cuts November 20, 2024

If you believe the messaging of the Trump transition, big cuts in U.S. government spending are coming. Announced cabinet appointments include several who are opponents of the mission of the agencies they will soon be heading. A new Department of Gove...

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Paraguay: The Silicon Valley of South America November 16, 2024

Paraguay, a relatively large South American country roughly the same size as the U.S. state of California, has historically been overshadowed by its larger and more well-known next-door neighbors, Argentina and Brazil. ...

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Trump Tells Argentina's Milei: ‘You Are My Favorite President’ November 13, 2024

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Argentina’s Milei To Meet with Trump, Musk Next Week in the U.S. November 08, 2024

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More Milei, Less Malarky October 25, 2024

With the presidential election mere weeks away, both candidates are going all out to win over swing voters, and their promises are growing increasingly outlandish — some bordering on illegal. While American voters despair that our election politics h...

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Brazil Seek Extradition of Bolsonaro Supporters From Argentina October 17, 2024

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Lessons From Milei October 16, 2024

Since his election in December of 2023, Argentine president Javier Milei has permanently transformed the nation’s politics....

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Javier Milei Could Be in Trouble October 14, 2024

President Javier Milei isn’t believed to have attended Sir Paul McCartney’s Buenos Aires concerts last weekend, but if he had, he would have heard thousands of Argentines belting out ‘Getting Better’. ...

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Argentina’s Javier Milei vs. United Nations October 11, 2024

If you haven’t experienced the epic congestion of New York during United Nations week, count yourself lucky. If you have, you know the inverse correlation between the bedlam of the General Assembly’s annual meeting and the march of peace among men. Z...

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Argentina Politician Eyes Breakaway Province Plan October 10, 2024

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The Nuclear Option to Chinese Influence in Latin America October 04, 2024

Central to President Reagan's foreign policy was a steadfast commitment to confronting America's greatest ideological rival, the Soviet Union, on the global stage. While parts of the Reagan Doctrine remain contentious, like military aid to Nicaraguan...

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