ISABEL DEBRE

Argentine President Javier Milei, right, and his Economy Minister Luis Caputo enter the Economy Ministry after a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
What does it mean that President Milei ended Argentina’s strict controls on currency and capital?
President Javier Milei has promised Argentinians that an economic revival would follow the pain of harsh austerity.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei, left, and Economy Minister Luis Caputo attend the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
In key milestones for President Milei, Argentina secures IMF deal and ends most capital controls
President Javier Milei says that he will lift most of the country’s strict capital and currency controls next week, a high-stakes gamble made possible by a new loan from the International Monetary Fund.
 
A guard stands at the entrance of the Central Bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Deal extension allows Trump ally Argentina to borrow another $5 billion from China
China has renewed a currency swap agreement with Argentina equivalent to $5 billion for another year, easing some pressures on Argentina’s dwindling foreign reserves and underscoring the strategic importance of the countries’ partnership despite recent criticism from the Trump administration.
 
Stranded passengers wait at Jorge Newbery airport during a general strike against the austerity measures of President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
General strike against President Milei’s austerity disrupts Argentina
Argentina’s trains and subways were disrupted, flights grounded, grain shipments interrupted, mail delivery halted and banks and some gas stations shuttered as unions held a general strike against the libertarian government of President Javier Milei.
 
An Iranian official was fired over his ‘lavish’ Argentina trip. Argentines are angry, too
Furious that an Iranian official had entered Argentina as an ordinary citizen on a tourist visa, Argentine lawmakers this week attacked the nation’s spy agency.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives to speak before President-elect Donald Trump during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
The IMF reaches a deal with troubled Argentina on a $20 billion bailout
The International Monetary Fund has reached a preliminary agreement with Argentina on a $20 billion bailout package, providing a reprieve to President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives to speak before President-elect Donald Trump during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Argentina’s Milei doubles down on Trump bromance as the world reels from trade shock
While the world’s leaders were wringing their hands over President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports, Argentina’s right-wing president was ebullient, feted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
 
Argentine Supreme Court justice Manuel García Mansilla, top, shakes hands with President Javier Milei at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, March 1, 2025, on the day of the president's annual address to the nation at the start of the legislative year. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Argentine senate rejects President Milei’s Supreme Court appointees in blow to libertarian leader
Argentina’s senate has rejected the two Supreme Court candidates that President Javier Milei nominated by decree earlier this year, dealing a major blow to the libertarian leader.
 
Argentine President Javier Milei speaks during a ceremony commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the conflict between Argentina and Great Britain over the Falkland Islands, known as the Malvinas Islands, at a war memorial in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentina’s President Milei draws pushback over his Falklands War speech
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has marked the anniversary of his nation’s failed 1982 attempt to forcibly wrest the Falkland Islands from Britain by expressing hope that the island’s residents may one day choose to be Argentine rather than British.
 
People lie on a mattress outside a closed store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentina reports a drop in poverty under President Milei, but many say life is harder
Argentina says that its poverty rate has dropped to 38.1% in libertarian President Javier Milei’s first year in office.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei delivers the annual State of the Nation address, which marks the start of the legislative year, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In address to congress, Argentine President Milei promises IMF deal and lauds economic wins
Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has signaled that a new and much-anticipated deal with the International Monetary Fund is imminent.
 
Uruguay's incoming President Yamandu Orsi and Vice President Carolina Cosse wave as they ride in an open car on Inauguration Day, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Mazzarovich)
Uruguay’s new leftist president takes office, facing a financial balancing act
Yamandú Orsi, a telegenic left-leaning former mayor and history teacher, has taken office as Uruguay’s new president.
 
Coca-Cola’s appeal to Palestinians fizzles as the Mideast war boosts demand for a local look-alike
The caramel brown liquid, red-and-white soda cans and splashy big font bear remarkable resemblance to an iconic American soft drink.
 
A demonstrator holds a banner depicting President Javier Milei and the $Libra cryptocurrency during a protest organized by retirees demanding better pensions, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Argentina’s crypto scandal dings Milei, involves strange mix of characters
Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a corruption probe into his promotion of a meme coin, which is a highly speculative form of cryptocurrency that’s seen a recent surge in popularity after President Donald Trump and his wife launched tokens of their own.
 
Israeli soldiers check the identification cards of Palestinians while they evacuate their homes in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarem, while the Israeli military operation continues in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled home following recent Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank.
 
Palestinian prisoner Waddeh Bazrah, 43, is greeted after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
Israel released about 600 prisoners overnight, including the longest-serving prisoner and a man convicted of killing an American peace activist, in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
 
Mohammed Shula speaks at a relative's house, where he and his wife have taken refuge, in the West Bank village of Kafr al-Labad, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Israel’s fatal shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman puts the focus on West Bank violence
Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank signals a worrying trend toward more lethal, warlike tactics by Israel in the occupied territory.
 
Palestinian motorists waiting in line at the Ein Senia Israeli army checkpoint are seen through an iron gate north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
More Israeli checkpoints are slicing up the West Bank
To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to hear of the endless problems they have brought — families divided, money lost, trade disrupted, sick people kept from doctors.
 
Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they exit a Red Cross bus after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
Israel has released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza, part of a ceasefire that has paused the war but whose future is uncertain.
 
Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they exit a Red Cross bus after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
Israel has released a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
 
Palestinian prisoners are greeted by a crowd after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement with Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday, in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in captivity in Gaza. Five Thai workers held captive were also freed on Thursday in a separate deal with Thailand.
 
Two youths leave a boys school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israel’s ban on UN’s Palestinian aid agency has come into effect. Here’s what that looks like
Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash.
 
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israelis and Palestinians rejoice after more hostages and prisoners are freed
Hamas-led militants freed eight more hostages from the Gaza Strip and another 110 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of a ceasefire that began earlier this month.
 
Palestinians gather outside of a health clinic run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Fear hits east Jerusalem as Israel moves to close UN Palestinian refugee agency
On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, from Israeli territory and prohibiting Israeli officials from any contact with the agency.
 
Palestinian prisoners are greeted by a crowd after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement with Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
The release of four female soldiers from Hamas captivity on Saturday came at a great cost for Israel. Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners of whom 120 were serving life sentences. Some were set free into the occupied West Bank.
 
An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
With the ceasefire in Gaza comes a gruesome challenge: Counting and collecting the dead
The corpses keep coming every day, sometimes dozens at a time brought to morgues in the Palestinian enclave, after being pried from under 15 months of rubble and pulled from battle zones long too dangerous for search-and-rescue teams to reach.
 
Israeli female soldier hostages wave and react at a Palestinian crowd before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)
Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza have returned to Israel after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands and handed them over to the Red Cross.
 
This photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)
How the deal to pause the Israel-Hamas war could unfold
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement is expected to take effect as soon as Sunday. But the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in over a year of brutal war between Israel and Hamas is rife with risks, and seems to raise more questions than it answers.
 
Former President Evo Morales chews coca in the Lauca N, Chapare region of Bolivia, Nov. 3, 2024, amid an ongoing political conflict with the government of President Luis Arce. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Bolivia’s former leader Evo Morales seeks a political comeback from his stronghold in the tropics
Bolivia will elect a new president in August and already, a political battle is looming between two adversaries, the country’s former leader Evo Morales and his onetime ally turned rival, President Luis Arce.
 
Aymara indigenous people wait in line to vote during judicial elections in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia’s divisive popular vote for senior judges offers lessons for Mexico
Bolivia is the only country in the world that holds elections for top judicial posts. Soon Mexico will, too, after former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through a highly contentious overhaul of the justice system in the face of mass protests.
 
Load More