Essential policies of the Milei Government. By Oscar Rotundo, Buenos Aires / Argentina Many speculators announced the end of the government in at least six months, but as the days went by, what seemed to be crumbling, has been consolidated thanks to betrayal and corruption within the traditional political class. President Javier Milei stated at the event held for the ...
By Guillermo Martín Caviasca, Buenos Aires, Argentina Interview with General of the Argentine Army (RE) Fabian Brown, who served as director of Operational Education, director of the National Military College and director of Army Education and Rector of the Army University Institute. He is currently president of the Federation of Mutual Insurance of the Armed and Security Forces. He has ...
By Guillermo Martín Caviasca, Buenos Aires, Argentina In this interview with the Malvinas war veteran and Chief of Intelligence of the Argentine Navy from 2011 to 2015, Rear Admiral Guillermo Tomé, we look at the different stages of Argentine defense in the last 40 years until reaching the present day. You occupied a privileged position to observe the geopolitical, defense ...
By Úrsula Asta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina, a member of NATO? These days, at the local level, Argentina exhibits some of the obscenest images. The president says, in a business forum held in the south, that those who hide money are heroes who have escaped the clutches of the State. Meanwhile, in terms of international relations, the country shows a ...
By Rodolfo Treber, Buenos Aires, Argentina* In Argentina, the government of Javier Milei is implementing a series of delirious political measures that cannot be explained in any way from the logic of national interest, nor from any economic theory, no matter how liberal and absurd the latter may be. Price liberalization, subsidy removal, devaluation of the local currency, indiscriminate opening ...
By Úrsula Asta, Buenos Aires, Argentina The government of Javier Milei in Argentina began with a package of regressive measures for the vast majority of the people. In the first weeks of his mandate, first, there was an accelerated economic deterioration in form of a mega devaluation of 118 percent and a sharp increase in inflation. Secondly, it issued the ...
Trying to understand what is happening, I spoke with several Argentine friends. I spoke with journalists, union leaders, small businessmen, academics, Peronist and leftist activists, and state officials. Below, I summarize some of the ideas that were presented to me and that I hope will contribute to thinking about what could happen in the immediate future. In the current condition, ...
Argentina witnessed last week a general strike in response to recently elected President Javier Milei’s initiatives to cut back the state, subsidies and liberalize the economy. We spoke to Fernando Esteche, professor at the University of La Plata in Buenos Aires, about the participation in the strike and its immediate political results. How was the participation in the general strike? ...
Argentina has witnessed this week a general strike that might constitute the start of a long struggle after Javier Milei took office as president of the country. The following article describes Milei’s program. It has been first published in Spanish on PiaGlobal and translated to English by UWI. By Oscar Rotundo, Buenos Aires, Argentina * From dollarization, which would mean ...
By Fernando Esteche * and Pablo Rodolfo Treber **, reporting from Buenos Aires, Argentina How will the new political power be built? The unique character who will govern Argentina defines himself as the first liberal-libertarian president in the history of the world. With a notable precariousness in terms of knowledge of geopolitics and the tectonic movements that have been occurring ...