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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Argentine politics
    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
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Argentina risks hyperinflation after election giveaways and dollar pledge

    Surging inflation may worsen after October vote, say economists

    A supporter of Javier Milei holds a large fake US dollar bill with Milei’s face on it at a rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Mercosur
    South American leaders issue ultimatum on EU trade pact

    Paraguay’s president says Mercosur will end talks with Brussels if deal is not finalised by December 6

    Paraguay’s president Santiago Peña at the UN General Assembly in New York this week
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    My performance is way better than most hedge funds

    And that’s even after subtracting the cost of reading the FT

  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    The billionaire who backs Argentina’s Milei — but not dollarisation

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

    Eduardo Eurnekian,
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    News in-depthBurford Capital Ltd
    After $16bn judgment, Burford’s next battle will be making Argentina pay

    US court win isn’t the end of the saga for litigation funder and Latin American country in dispute over YPF nationalisation

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Argentina found liable for $16bn in damages over oil group nationalisation

    Decision is the culmination of a legal fight waged by former YPF shareholders funded by Burford Capital

    A sign at a YPF petrol station
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    InterviewInternational Monetary Fund
    Organised crime groups are hurting Latin America’s economy, says IMF

    Fund’s regional chief warns growing presence of gangs is deterring investment

    Rodrigo Valdés
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Argentine politics
    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
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    News in-depthJavier Milei
    ‘Milei knows how to fix Argentina’: far-right outsider woos frustrated voters

    Ahead of October’s election, the self-styled ‘anarcho-capitalist’ is winning over a large chunk of the population

    Javier Milei supporters
  • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Hedge funds boost bets against Argentine government bonds

    Investors expect further weakness ahead of next month’s election

    Person with Argentina’s pesos
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Markets InsightEduardo Levy Yeyati
    Argentina should beware the dollarisation fairy

    Impracticable and costly, such a currency shift would not be much more than a convenient sleight of hand

    Libertarian hopeful Javier Milei is ranked first in the country’s primary elections
  • 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
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Emerging markets
    Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Person in the News
    Javier Milei, presidential hopeful biting at Argentina establishment’s heels

    The self-styled ‘anarcho-capitalist’ hopes to win election by exploiting frustration at the national economic disarray

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Javier Milei speaking on a microphone, his right hand raised in a fist.
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Argentina’s Milei aims to balance budget within months, adviser says

    Radical libertarian wants to avoid mass public sector lay-offs because of economy’s dire state

    Javier Milei
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Hector Torres
    Flirting with default, Argentina is turning rightward

    Whoever wins October’s election will inherit a dire economic position, and blaming the IMF will not wash

    A man holds his arms aloft at a political rally in Argentina
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Argentina struggles to avoid economic collapse after shock primary win

    Country under pressure to devalue currency again after radical rightwinger’s presidential primary victory knocks markets

    A bank of Banco Patagonia in Buenos Aires
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Argentina’s perilous path to economic stability

    The surprise primary elections win of a far-right populist raises the stakes in the October presidential poll

    The libertarian economist Javier Milei arrived to vote in Argentina’s primary elections
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Currencies
    Argentina’s “Milei-Quake”

    Aftershocks coming

  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    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
    Argentine politics
    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
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    Argentina’s far-right libertarian wants tougher austerity to rebuild economy

    Javier Milei has pulled country’s political discourse to the right ahead of October elections

    Javier Milei
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    News in-depthAmericas economy
    South America braced for economic hit from return of El Niño

    Extreme weather phenomenon could spark inflationary surge due to food and energy shortages

    People try to salvage belongings in flooded part of Ecuador
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Argentina reaches last-minute deal with IMF to avoid default

    Agreement to disburse $7.5bn prevents nation being pushed into the ‘abyss’ ahead of October elections

    Fruit stall in a Buenos Aires market
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