Argentina's deregulation tsar Federico Sturzenegger, after a year spearheading one of the world's most aggressive attacks on the public sector and red tape, plans even deeper cuts this year, with sights set on industries from autos to medicines.
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Argentinian President Javier Milei called out the radical left for imposing gender ideology on children, during a controversial speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
Argentine President Javier Milei received a major vote of confidence as the libertarian introduces sweeping reforms to transform South America's second largest economy. Credit rating agency Moody's sees less risk of a debt default,
Argentine President Javier Milei took the international far-right’s “war on woke” to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week in a fiery speech declaring that LGBTQ+ “gender ideology constitutes plain and simple child abuse. They are pedophiles.”
Argentina’s Salta province has begun a bidding process to build a roughly two-block fence near the Bolivian border as part of President Javier Milei’s efforts to crack down on drug trafficking and contraband.
Javier Milei’s government in Argentina has implemented radical economic policies, including devaluing the peso, which have led to significant economic instability and social unrest, despite
A "global hegemony" of leftwing politics and ideology is "starting to crumble," Argentina's firebrand President Javier Milei told the World Economic Forum.
Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a new controversy after he made a series of homophobic and transphobic comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei met with Donald Trump, becoming the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory last week. The South American country’s president is keeping close economic ties with Beijing to help restore growth, while also cozying up to the U.S.
Javier Milei, Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president, has won Donald Trump’s praise and attended his inauguration. Under Milei, inflation is down, but poverty is up.
Argentina likely logged the largest trade surplus in its history in 2024, a Reuters analyst poll released on Friday showed, on the back of libertarian President Javier Milei's bid to boost grains and energy exports in his first full year in office.