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...On Sunday Musk, who declares himself a “free speech absolutist”, called for a Brazilian supreme court justice to “resign or be impeached”....
...Milei, a political outsider elected in November, is struggling to overcome a hostile congress to enact his radical change agenda....
...An initial effort to win a broad green light for privatisations failed in January. Last week Milei unveiled a less ambitious proposal to fully or partially privatise a dozen companies....
...Milei, a political outsider elected in November, is struggling to overcome a hostile Congress to enact his radical change agenda....
...Analysts expect official data on price rises due to be published on Friday will show that the monthly inflation rate was just over 10 per cent in March, down from 13 per cent in February and a peak of 26...
...It will stay in place until the lower house also takes a vote. Milei, a political outsider elected in November, is struggling to implement his agenda to deliver lasting reform amid a hostile congress....
...Argentine President Javier Milei has fired his labour secretary for overseeing a 48 per cent presidential pay increase last month amid a government austerity drive, in the first scandal to hit the libertarian...
...Milei, a political outsider who won the 2023 election on a pledge to solve the country’s dire economic crisis, has said the US will be one of Argentina’s main allies under his government....
...Less than a month ago a message appeared on a white sheet hung over a bridge in Rosario, a river port city of 1.3mn in Argentina, warning of the impending “death of innocents” if the provincial government...
...during a lengthy military dictatorship....
...Argentina has refinanced 42.6tn pesos ($50.3bn) worth of sovereign debt in a record bond swap that should relieve pressure on public accounts and ease the path for lifting currency controls later this year...
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...a long-term programme.”...
...Argentina’s economy has entered a severe recession, with the IMF predicting a 2.8 per cent contraction this year....
...“It’s a risky move, though not unexpected.”...
...“There is a zero chance of a social uprising, unless there is a politically motivated event or [one involving] foreign infiltrators,” he said....
...Chile’s former president Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire and major figure on the country’s right, has died in a helicopter crash....
...“It’s the start of a very worrying new phase.”...
...Submitting the deal to a vote would hand Tianqi a veto in effect, he said....
...Tohá said President Gabriel Boric had ordered “a state funeral and the declaration of a period of national mourning” in Chile....
...Last week he sparked a diplomatic crisis by calling Colombia’s leftwing president Gustavo Petro a “murderous communist”....
...A judge ruled earlier this week that a critical section of a presidential decree issued by Milei in December deregulating Argentina’s labour market was unconstitutional....
...The lower house of Chile’s congress has provisionally approved a reform of its private pension system proposed by leftist President Gabriel Boric, in a rare breakthrough for the country’s polarised politics...
...Boric’s leftist coalition has a minority in both chambers. Pension reform has been high on the political agenda in Chile for more than a decade....
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