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EconomyExplainer
A 2025 relaxation reopened access to dollars for individuals and introduced a managed trading range; it did not abolish the peso or every rule facing companies.
Source: BCRA stage-three announcement, 25 Sep 2026
InvestmentExplainer
The country offers defined residency categories and a separate regime for very large projects, but visas, tax position and access to foreign exchange depend on the activity and date.
Source: Migration authority digital-nomad procedure, 25 Sep 2026
PoliticsExplainer
From television economist to president, Milei made fiscal austerity and hostility to the political establishment the centre of an improbable governing project.
Source: Reuters, 24 Sep 2026
EconomyExplainer
Milei’s motosierra was a campaign emblem for shrinking government; the policy combined a fiscal squeeze, subsidy changes and legislative reform with substantial social costs.
Source: Casa Rosada, 24 Sep 2026
SocietyExplainer
INDEC’s first-half 2026 survey found poverty rising again from late 2025; the urban sample, basket thresholds and difference between people and households matter.
Source: INDEC EPH poverty first half 2026, 24 Sep 2026
InvestmentExplainer
Created by the 2024 Ley Bases, RIGI offers tax, customs and currency advantages to approved large projects, raising hopes for capital inflows and questions about cost and fairness.
Source: Ley Bases, 24 Sep 2026
InternationalExplainer
He courts the United States and Israel, attacks multilateral bureaucracy and seeks investment, while pressing Argentina’s long-standing claim to the Falkland Islands.
Source: Casa Rosada UN speech, 23 Sep 2026
EconomyExplainer
Monthly CPI fell sharply from the post-devaluation shock, but the index still rises and August 2026’s annual rate shows how far stabilisation remains from stable prices.
Source: INDEC Dec 2023, 10 Sep 2026
ReformsExplainer
Milei invokes the Austrian school and Murray Rothbard, but his presidency is a useful lesson in the gap between a theory of minimal government and governing a federation.
Source: Casa Rosada IAEF 2026 speech, 4 Sep 2026
EconomyExplainer
A new US$20 billion arrangement approved in 2025 followed earlier giant IMF programmes; understanding reviews, reserves and debt is essential to judging its durability.
Source: BCRA, 21 May 2026
PoliticsExplainer
The libertarian alliance gained veto protection and became a leading parliamentary force, but passing ordinary laws still requires coalitions across two chambers.
Source: Argentine Constitution, 10 Dec 2025
On September 26, officials were considering whether to accept the Senate’s amended central bank bill in the lower house, where a fight over appointments could still delay final approval.
Source: Canal 26, 26 Sep 2026
Argentine sovereign debt fell on September 25 as JPMorgan’s country-risk measure closed at 609 basis points and the Banco Nación dollar hit 1,545 pesos, sharpening financing concerns.
Source: TN, 25 Sep 2026
Chief of Cabinet Diego Santilli met San Juan’s Marcelo Orrego and Mendoza’s Alfredo Cornejo on September 25 as the government sought provincial votes for its 2027 budget and election overhaul.
Source: Canal 26, 25 Sep 2026
Argentina’s CONADU federation voted on September 25 for a 48- or 72-hour university strike starting September 30, demanding a 33.4% pay adjustment and enforcement of a funding law.
Source: ADNSUR, 25 Sep 2026
Electrolux told workers on September 25 it would close its Rosario appliance factory and shift to imports; roughly 180 people worked at the plant, while the final number of job losses remained unclear.
Source: Rosario Plus, 25 Sep 2026
Argentina paid the IMF roughly US$795 million on September 25 as BCRA reserves closed at US$48.245 billion and the bank made no currency-market purchases during the day.
Source: Análisis Digital, 25 Sep 2026
A June 2025 turnover order threatened Argentina's controlling stake in YPF while it appealed a $16.1 billion judgment. An appeals court later reversed that judgment and vacated the share order.
Source: Reuters, 30 Jun 2025
Government tourism data released in June 2025 showed outbound travel rising and inbound visits declining. The gap exposed a hard-currency cost of the same strong peso that tempered domestic inflation.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 25 Jun 2025
EconomyAnalysis
Investors welcomed lower sovereign borrowing spreads in January 2025, but a dramatic intraday plunge to 444 points was traced to a bond-payment adjustment rather than a sudden market breakthrough.
Source: Reuters, 7 Jan 2025
An October 2024 decree advanced the government's campaign to sell the flag carrier. The declaration did not itself transfer ownership: Argentine law still required congressional approval.
Source: Argentina Ministry of Justice, Decree 873/2024, 2 Oct 2024
The first-half INDEC figure rose from 28.2% in late 2025, putting jobs, wages and household debt at the centre of the political argument despite much lower inflation than in 2024.
Source: INDEC, 24 Sep 2026
INDEC's monthly activity gauge missed expectations and reversed June's annual gain, underscoring how a strong mining sector could coexist with weak manufacturing and commerce.
Source: INDEC, 24 Sep 2026
The Argentine president accused the UN of neglecting Buenos Aires' sovereignty claim and challenged British-backed drilling plans, while Britain continued to defend islanders' self-determination.
Source: Al Jazeera, 23 Sep 2026
Proposed financing for critical minerals and energy would deepen Washington's economic ties with Milei, but an upper limit for credit was not proof of disbursed funds or completed projects.
Source: Reuters, 23 Sep 2026
The government submitted its last full-year spending plan before a likely re-election bid, forecasting lower inflation and a trade surplus; lawmakers had yet to approve any of it.
Source: Reuters, 15 Sep 2026
The monthly CPI reading gave Milei a fresh disinflation result, but the 33.5% annual rate and persistent pressure from housing, utilities and food complicated any claim of a completed recovery.
Source: INDEC, 10 Sep 2026
A televised sovereignty push targeted offshore oil activity around the British-controlled islands; London rejected Argentina's challenge and project partners defended their licences.
Source: Reuters, 3 Sep 2026
YPF and partners sought investment-regime status for a Vaca Muerta-to-Río Negro LNG project, putting long-term export ambitions before regulators without yet securing approval or construction.
Source: Reuters, 13 Aug 2026
The proposed law would tighten the barrier between the monetary authority and the government, but it needed a congressional vote and could still be changed by a future legislature.
Source: Reuters, 30 Jul 2026
Kristalina Georgieva's first official visit brought encouragement on reserves and inflation alongside a warning that Argentina must spread gains beyond energy before a 2027 debt and election test.
Source: Reuters, 27 Jul 2026
INDEC's June release showed a second consecutive monthly slowdown, while the 12-month increase climbed to 33.2%, exposing the difference between progress on prices and a finished disinflation.
Source: Reuters, 11 Jun 2026
The US oil producer's application put a large new shale investment before Argentine regulators, but the filing was not an approval or a guarantee that the full amount would be spent.
Source: Reuters, 2 Jun 2026
The Fund's May 21 board decision rewarded policy progress but acknowledged a missed net-reserve target, keeping the focus on exchange-rate flexibility and eventual market access.
Source: International Monetary Fund, 21 May 2026
INDEC's April figure broke a run of months without a decline in the monthly inflation rate. Annual inflation still stood at 32.4%, and the price of a basic household basket kept rising.
Source: Página/12 reporting INDEC figures, 14 May 2026
A March 26 government notice set out a public tender to sell all shares in Intercargo, with bids due May 7. The proposed sale would test Milei's effort to replace a state operator with competition.
Source: Argentina.gob.ar, 26 Mar 2026
INDEC's February CPI matched January's monthly increase and reached 33.1% over 12 months. Housing and regulated prices posed a fresh challenge to the disinflation campaign.
Source: Chequeado reporting INDEC figures, 12 Mar 2026
In his March 1 address, the president pointed to labor legislation and trade agreements as evidence of momentum, while clashes in the chamber showed that political resistance had not receded.
Source: Casa Rosada, 1 Mar 2026
Senators passed the revised measure on February 27 by 42 votes to 28, with two abstentions. Employers gained new flexibility while unions warned of weaker protections and more litigation.
Source: RTVE, 27 Feb 2026
A 24-hour walkout on February 19 disrupted flights and transport while the lower house took up labor legislation, laying bare organized labor's opposition to the government's program.
Source: Deutsche Welle, 19 Feb 2026
The February 5 deal promised broader US access for Argentine beef and tariff relief on other products, while Argentina committed to opening markets; Congress still had to examine it.
Source: Deutsche Welle, 5 Feb 2026
ReformsAnalysis
In a January 21 address, Argentina's president defended free enterprise as a moral principle as well as an economic system, setting out the ideas behind his domestic reform agenda.
Source: Casa Rosada, 21 Jan 2026
The January 17 signature gave Argentina a prospective new European trade framework, but parliamentary approval and ratification still stood between ceremony and implementation.
Source: Reuters, 17 Jan 2026
The BCRA bought $21 million on January 5, its first market purchase since April 2025. Accumulating reserves became a test of whether disinflation could coexist with external stability.
Source: Bloomberg Línea, 5 Jan 2026
The Senate passed the 2026 spending plan 46 to 25, giving the president his first congressionally approved budget. Its growth and inflation forecasts promised fiscal order but faced questions over social spending.
Source: Reuters, 2026 budget passage, 26 Dec 2025
EconomyAnalysis
A fresh inflation reading after the president’s second anniversary showed much slower annual price growth but stubborn monthly increases. Lower measured poverty and a new labour bill framed the next test.
Source: MercoPress, November inflation, 11 Dec 2025
EconomyAnalysis
The administration planned to seek a budget first, then changes to employment and taxation. A pension overhaul remained less defined as unions and provincial lawmakers weighed the costs of a second reform wave.
Source: Buenos Aires Times, reform plans, 4 Nov 2025
The president reshuffled his government days after winning the midterms, moving Manuel Adorni into the chief-of-staff job. A new interior minister would be tasked with negotiating reforms with provincial governors.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, Francos resignation, 31 Oct 2025
La Libertad Avanza led the national count after a bruising provincial loss and peso crisis. The party secured enough lower-house seats to shield presidential vetoes, though it remained short of a majority.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, midterm results, 26 Oct 2025
Washington moved from promises to direct peso purchases and a currency-swap framework before Argentina’s midterms. The intervention rallied markets, while its exact purchase size and swap terms remained undisclosed.
Source: Reuters, Treasury intervention, 9 Oct 2025
The San Juan project entered the large-investment incentive regime on September 26, 2025. A tax approval put a proposed $2.7 billion mine closer to finance, but copper output was still years away.
Source: Reuters, 26 Sep 2025
Scott Bessent raised the possibility of swap lines and direct currency purchases as Buenos Aires struggled to defend the peso. Markets rebounded, but economists warned that the underlying dollar shortage remained.
Source: Reuters, Argentine market rally, 22 Sep 2025
A September 2025 tax holiday aimed to accelerate farm sales during pressure on the peso. The concession came with a $7 billion registration ceiling and ended for grains within three days.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 22 Sep 2025
Fuerza Patria took about 47% to the government alliance’s 34% in a provincial legislative election. Milei acknowledged defeat but promised to maintain his economic course before October’s national vote.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, provincial results, 7 Sep 2025
Senators voted 63 to 7 to reject the president’s veto after the lower house had done the same. The decision forced the disability emergency law back onto the statute book before a pivotal provincial vote.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, Senate override, 4 Sep 2025
Leaked recordings alleging kickbacks in disability procurement prompted the removal of agency chief Diego Spagnuolo and judicial raids. The allegations and the recordings’ authenticity remained contested.
Source: Reuters, investigation, 22 Aug 2025
The president blocked three laws passed by Congress in July, saying their costs threatened Argentina’s balanced budget. Opposition lawmakers prepared to test whether they had the votes to reverse him.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, Senate bills, 4 Aug 2025
At the July 2025 livestock show, the president promised lower export taxes for soybeans, corn, beef and other products. Producers welcomed relief while the government faced a shortage of dollars.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 26 Jul 2025
INDEC's June release showed a sharp monthly slowdown after the April currency overhaul, but annual price growth remained 43.5% and economists warned that food's seasonal relief might not last.
Source: INDEC, May 2025 consumer price report, 12 Jun 2025
Argentina admitted the Salta lithium development into its investor-incentive regime in May 2025. Planned battery-materials output remained years away and subject to permits and construction.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 20 May 2025
A ticket led by presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni topped a fragmented local legislative vote, striking a blow against the centre-right PRO in its longtime stronghold ahead of national midterms.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 18 May 2025
The peso weakened as a new AR$1,000–1,400-per-dollar band began operating, with investors applauding access to foreign exchange but economists watching for renewed price pressure.
Source: BCRA, 14 Apr 2025
Scott Bessent's Buenos Aires visit signalled the Trump administration's political support after Argentina's IMF deal, without promising a direct US credit line or relief from American trade barriers.
Source: US Department of the Treasury, 14 Apr 2025
A four-year Extended Fund Facility brought an immediate $12 billion disbursement and a demanding policy framework, giving Argentina resources to support a risky dismantling of exchange controls.
Source: Reuters, 11 Apr 2025
Empty rail stations, cancelled flights and working bus routes marked a nationwide strike, as unions demanded better incomes and the government accused organisers of obstructing those who wanted to work.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, strike-day reporting, 10 Apr 2025
INDEC's figures for the second half of 2024 showed a steep fall in urban poverty from the first half, but millions still lived below the line and economists warned that incomes remained fragile.
Source: Reuters, 31 Mar 2025
The government admitted a YPF-led export pipeline into its large-investment scheme. The projected export bonanza depends on completing a costly route from shale wells to Patagonia's coast.
Source: Reuters, 14 Mar 2025
Congress voted to skip the national PASO primaries for the October midterms, giving the government a cost-cutting win while leaving a longstanding electoral mechanism's future unresolved.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, Senate vote, 20 Feb 2025
A post by Argentina's president helped propel a little-known crypto token before its price collapsed, raising questions about his judgment and the people behind a project he said he did not run.
Source: Reuters, 14 Feb 2025
A February decree launched the breakup and proposed sale or concession of the state freight operator, testing whether Milei's privatisation agenda could attract investment without sacrificing rail access.
Source: Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 10 Feb 2025
At the World Economic Forum, Argentina's president attacked what he called woke ideology and claimed his fiscal reforms offered a model for Western governments, shifting attention from markets to culture.
Source: World Economic Forum, 23 Jan 2025
The oil-export consortium's December 13 board decision advanced a roughly $3 billion pipeline from Argentina's shale basin to the Atlantic; eligibility for Milei's investment incentives was still pending.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 13 Dec 2024
INDEC's December 11 release showed the lowest monthly reading in roughly four years, but a 166% year-on-year rise and expensive essentials kept the social test of disinflation alive.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 11 Dec 2024
PoliticsAnalysis
In a December 10 address, Argentina's president promised wider use of dollars and an end to foreign-exchange restrictions in 2025, after a year of disinflation, recession and fierce budget fights.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 10 Dec 2024
Officials put cash entering local banks through Milei's asset-regularisation programme at roughly $18 billion by October 31, betting that declared savings could support credit and confidence.
Source: Reuters via Yahoo News, 31 Oct 2024
JPMorgan's closely watched measure slipped to 984 basis points on October 25, a sign investors were repricing Argentine debt even as access to external borrowing remained uncertain.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 25 Oct 2024
Deputies failed to override a second presidential veto on October 9, leaving public universities and their unions to confront a year of disputed budgets and a new struggle over salaries.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 9 Oct 2024
INDEC's September release captured the human cost of Argentina's economic shock: more than half of people in surveyed urban areas fell below the poverty line during Milei's first six months.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 26 Sep 2024
An opposition-backed rise for retirees fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to defeat the president's first veto, exposing a sharp divide over who should bear the cost of balancing the budget.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 11 Sep 2024
Eighteen governors joined the president in Tucumán on Independence Day to endorse ten broad principles, a political truce after the Ley Bases vote rather than a binding settlement of fiscal disputes.
Source: Buenos Aires Times, 9 Jul 2024
The economist behind key elements of Milei's reform programme took a cabinet post on July 5, shifting the government's campaign against bureaucracy from draft legislation toward day-to-day implementation.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 5 Jul 2024
Deputies gave final approval to the president's flagship reforms on June 28, granting limited emergency powers and investment incentives while reinstating disputed changes to income and wealth taxes.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 28 Jun 2024
The president said on May 20 that his proposed agreement with governors would wait for the Ley Bases to clear Congress, separating the May 25 holiday from a reform deal.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 20 May 2024
INDEC's April CPI reading of 8.8% offered Milei evidence of disinflation, but utility bills and a 289.4% annual rate showed how costly stabilisation remained for households.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald reporting INDEC data, 14 May 2024
Students, staff and supporters marched on April 23 as inflation eroded university budgets, turning a dispute over operating costs into a broader challenge to the government's cuts.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 23 Apr 2024
The president said Argentina recorded a first-quarter financial surplus for the first time since 2008, a budget milestone that sharpened the argument over who bore austerity's cost.
Source: Reuters, 22 Apr 2024
In his March 1 address to Congress, the president recast his reform agenda as a proposed agreement with provincial leaders on fiscal balance, property rights and structural change.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 1 Mar 2024
After winning approval in principle, the government's sprawling reform proposal returned to committee on February 6, exposing the limits of a small congressional bloc's mandate.
Source: Reuters, 6 Feb 2024
The CGT mobilised workers just 45 days into the presidency, opposing deregulation and austerity as the administration tried to preserve momentum for its reform package.
Source: CNBC, 24 Jan 2024
A January survey of estate agents found more apartments on offer after Argentina repealed its rental law. The early figures described listings and asking rents, not what every tenant paid.
Source: El Cronista, 12 Jan 2024
A letter to the bloc's leaders formally reversed Argentina's planned January accession, signalling a pro-Western turn while leaving trade ties with Brazil and China on the table.
Source: BBC News, 29 Dec 2023
Decree 70/2023 took aim at rental, labour and commercial rules; a January injunction against its labour provisions exposed the limits of governing by emergency order.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald, 20 Dec 2023
Two days after Milei's inauguration, the economy minister set a new official rate near 800 pesos per dollar and announced cuts that would put the government's fiscal promises to the test.
Source: Reuters, 12 Dec 2023
At his December 10 inauguration, Argentina's new president promised painful fiscal shock to avert a deeper crisis, testing how much disruption voters and Congress would tolerate.
Source: Reuters, 10 Dec 2023
MercoPress reported on 25 September 2026 that Javier Milei and Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the Falklands/Malvinas at a meeting at UN headquarters, according to Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno — with no recognition, accord or settled dispute established.
Source: MercoPress, 25 Sep 2026
EconomyExplainer
Lower inflation does not automatically mean lower poverty. Reporting periods, measures and source dates explain why Argentina's economic indicators can point in different directions.
Source: Al Jazeera, 25 Sep 2026
The central bank's own account of a joint Senate committee appearance says Santiago Bausili, Vladimir Werning and colleagues argued for a charter reform to preserve price stability and limit central-bank financing of the Treasury.
Source: Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), 9 Sep 2026
PoliticsExplainer
An explanatory guide — not new reporting — to reading reform announcements in Argentina: what a hearing, a proposal, a bill and a law each establish, using the BCRA charter reform and three other cited sources as worked examples.
Source: Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), 9 Sep 2026
A 31 July 2026 IMF blog post by Kristalina Georgieva describes two consecutive years of primary fiscal surpluses, inflation around 30%, rebuilding reserves and more than US$45 billion in approved investment projects — a July assessment, not a current dashboard.
Source: International Monetary Fund, 31 Jul 2026
