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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Argentina’s Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role

      Libertarian president-elect signals approach in keeping with ‘market situation’

      A 100-dollar bill cut-out with Javier Milei’s face printed on it
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      The unlikely alliance that could shape Argentina’s radical new leadership

      President-elect Javier Milei despises the establishment — apart from the unpopular ex-leader who helped him win power

      Mauricio Macri and Javier Milei
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Milei prepares shock therapy to cure Argentina’s sickly economy

      Insurgent libertarian has big plans but must work around his lack of congressional majority to deliver radical policies

      Montage featuring Javier Milei, US dollars and an Argentine peso note
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Argentina elects radical libertarian Milei as president

      Former television commentator vows ‘drastic’ changes to crisis-hit economy as voters swing to the right

      Javier Milei and Karina Milei
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Instant InsightMichael Stott
      Argentina’s Milei faces enormous hurdles to govern

      Lack of congressional majority and dire economic problems pose huge challenge for insurgent president-elect

      Javier Milei waves to supporters
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Argentines vote in tense election as inflation spirals

      Run-off between embattled economy minister and radical libertarian set to produce ‘outlier’ result

      A poster of Sergio Massa, presidential candidate and Argentina’s economy minister, covered with stickers supporting his rival in the election, Javier Milei and running mate Victoria Villarruel
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Milei’s party alleges voter fraud ahead of Argentine presidential poll

      Formal accusation from libertarian outsider raises tensions ahead of election

      Javier Milei, centre
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Argentina’s presidential candidates clash ahead of pivotal poll

      Libertarian Javier Milei repeats promise to abolish central bank in attack on Peronist minister Sergio Massa

      Argentine presidential candidates Sergio Massa and Javier Milei during a debate on Sunday night in Buenos Aires
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Argentina
      ‘A normal guy’: Argentina’s radical Milei struggles to rebrand for run-off vote

      Libertarian seeks less eccentric image as he competes for moderate voters with economy minister Sergio Massa

      Argentine congressman and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Javier Milei, centre
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Sergio Massa vs Javier Milei: stark presidential choice alarms Argentina business leaders

      Executives lack faith in either Peronist economy minister or hard-right libertarian

      Javier Milei campaigning in Buenos Aires on Saturday
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Argentina economy minister Massa seeks broad coalition after election win

      Peronist presidential candidate offers unity government to woo centre and marginalise libertarian rival Milei

      Composite images of Sergio Massa and Javier Milei
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Instant InsightMichael Stott
      Surprise win shows Peronism’s remarkable resilience

      If Sergio Massa can avoid crashing the economy after defeating insurgent Javier Milei in first-round voting, he may yet pull Argentina out of crisis

      Sergio Massa gestures while speaking and standing in front of a blue banner with the name of his  Union Por La Patria party
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Argentine politics faces shake-up in pivotal election

      Country’s two main political forces may be permanently changed by challenge of radical outsider Javier Milei

      A supporter at a rally in Buenos Aires holds a drawing of presidential candidate Javier Milei
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Interview
      Argentina must rethink China relationship, says presidential candidate Bullrich

      Centre-right contender blasts frontrunner Javier Milei’s dollarisation plan and proposes dual currency system

      Patricia Bullrich speaking during the final debate ahead of the presidential elections at Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depth
      Javier Milei’s novice team takes crash course on how to run Argentina

      Libertarian surprise frontrunner faces ‘precarious’ situation if elected

      Javier Milei
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Argentine economy
      Argentine peso plunges as presidential candidate Milei touts dollarisation

      Anti-establishment frontrunner has encouraged voters to get rid of the currency ahead of this month’s polls

      Supporters of Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei hold dollar bills with his face on them
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
      Argentina’s $16bn saga with a US court

      The FT’s Joe Miller and Ciara Nugent explain what a $16bn court judgment means for Argentina, as it grapples with skyrocketing inflation and an impending presidential election

    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Sergio Massa pledges Argentina unity government in effort to defeat Javier Milei

      Economy minister aims to distance himself from divisive Peronist movement

      Javier Milei, left, and Sergio Massa during a debate of Argentina’s president candidates at  National University of Santiago del Estero, in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on October 1 2023
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      News in-depthArgentina
      The billionaire who backs Argentina’s Milei — but not dollarisation

      Airport magnate Eduardo Eurnekian has longstanding links with the libertarian presidential candidate

      Eduardo Eurnekian,
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Milei’s running mate riles Argentina activists with event justifying 1970s dictatorship

      Victoria Villarruel honours ‘victims of leftwing terrorism’ in run-up to October election

      Demonstrators protest outside an event held by Victoria Villarruel, running mate of presidential candidate Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires on Monday
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Jonathan Derbyshire
      Libertarianism is having a moment with Argentina’s Milei

      The rightwing presidential hopeful is among a new generation of politicians reviving the movement

      FT montage of Javier Milei superimposed over the flag of Argentina and a $100 note
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Argentina
      Argentina’s markets recoil after shock primary election results

      Central bank devalues peso by 18% against the dollar to reassure anxious investors

      A woman walks past a money exchange store in Buenos Aires with a sign in Spanish that reads ‘We are not operating due to the system problems, sorry for the inconvenience’
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Argentina radical rightwinger shakes up presidential race with primary win

      Libertarian Javier Milei taps into voter frustration at chronic economic dysfunction

      Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the Freedom Advances coalition, raises his arms at his campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires after polling stations for primary elections closed on Sunday
    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Argentine economy
      Argentina’s new finance minister pledges to bring ‘order and balance’

      Silvina Batakis tries to reassure investors and IMF as she takes on a precarious economy amid political divisions

      A currency exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Argentina
      Argentina chooses former provincial official as economy minister

      Silvina Batakis replaces Martin Guzmán who negotiated $44bn restructuring deal with IMF

      Argentina’s new economy minister Silvina Batakis, left, with President Alberto Fernández on Monday
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