Argentina is considering a formal inspection of a Chinese “space station” on Argentine territory built during a previous socialist presidency, the government confirmed on Tuesday.
Prosecutors charged Argentina’s socialist former President Alberto Fernández on Thursday with embezzlement of funds as part of an investigation into irregularities in insurance contracting allegedly committed during his administration, which ended in December.
Vladimir Putin said Javier Milei’s plan to use the U.S. dollar as currency in Argentina would bring a “significant loss of sovereignty.”
Socialist former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner waved her middle finger at a crowd of supporters of the nation’s new president, Javier Milei, on Sunday, a gesture reportedly in response to jeers.
The Chinese Communist Party’s top English-language propaganda instrument, the Global Times, took great pains on Tuesday to emphasize that Beijing is not concerned about Argentine President-elect Javier Milei potentially rupturing ties with the South American nation.
Argentina’s outgoing leftist President Alberto Fernández announced in an interview given to the Spanish newspaper El País over the weekend that he will move to Spain after his presidential term ends on December 10.
Alberto Fernández, the socialist outgoing president of Argentina, lambasted his Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (no relation) on Wednesday for allegedly demanding “obedience” in his first interview since his Peronist coalition lost the presidential election to outsider libertarian Javier Milei on Sunday.
The Chinese Communist Party, which has invested heavily in exerting influence over Argentina, issued a cold statement of congratulations on Monday to President-elect Javier Milei, hoping to continue its “friendship” with the South American nation.
The five candidates in Sunday’s presidential election in Argentina ended their campaigns on Thursday, observing a mandated period of silence beginning on Friday as polls show a tight race at the top.
Argentina is gearing up to hold its upcoming October 22 general election, in which five candidates will compete to lead the economically ailing nation for the next four years.
Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa is in Brazil on Monday to discuss the details of an agreement with radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that would allow Argentina to pay for Brazilian imports using the Chinese yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Argentina state-run Télam news agency reported.
The leader of the Argentine Independent Movement for the Retired and Unemployed (MIJD), a leftist protest organization, took responsibility on Tuesday evening for an ongoing wave of looting of supermarkets and stores that began over the weekend.
The frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina, Javier Milei, told Bloomberg News in an interview published Thursday that he would “not promote relations with communists,” including one of Argentina’s largest trade partners, China.
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei won first place in Sunday’s nationwide presidential primary with 30 percent of the votes.
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei formally debuted his political coalition’s campaign platform on Tuesday, a formal requirement for him to run in the October 2023 presidential elections.
Alberto Fernández, the president of Argentina, announced this weekend that he would not be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
Leftist President Alberto Fernández of Argentina announced on Wednesday that he had asked American counterpart Joe Biden to act as “a bridge” with international finance organizations to help Argentina reach 2024 “with greater peace of mind” during their encounter in Washington.
The pressure and influence of communist China on Argentina’s leftist government has increased in recent weeks, as China seeks to take advantage of Argentina’s economic and social distress to take control of its strategic sectors, according to a report published by the Argentine news website Infobae on Thursday.
Argentina’s embassy to China said on Tuesday that President Alberto Fernandez is considering the purchase of JF-17 “Thunder” fighter jets from China — three months after a deal for JF-17s fell apart and Fernandez said his government would not buy any military aircraft in the near future.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro canceled his trip to Argentina on Monday after facing severe backlash from Argentine opposition politicians and members of the Venezuelan diaspora there, who fled the nation’s collapse under Maduro’s socialist regime.
Radical leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva encouraged his Latin American counterparts to treat the violent, terrorist-linked dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela with “great affection” on Monday.
The leftist governments of Argentina and Brazil will soon begin proceedings for the creation of a new common currency, tentatively called “sur” (South), the Financial Times claimed in a report on Sunday.
The end of 2022 brings with it a host of campaign seasons across the planet, set to change the way major states are governed and how they interact with each other.
The election of convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency of Brazil in October – a hardline socialist who had, in his previous presidencies, been seen as the leader of the international left – prompted a wave of celebrations among the world’s Marxists that Latin America had finally fallen into near-complete leftist rule.
Argentina obtained Its long sought-after third FIFA World Cup victory on Sunday, leaving the nation’s leftist government to pay back its promise to solve inflation only after the Cup returned to Buenos Aires.
China has agreed to expand its currency swap deal with Argentina by $5 billion following a meeting between Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Argentina’s leftist President Alberto Fernández held during the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Bali on Tuesday.
Argentina’s Minister of Labour, Employment, and Social Security Kelly Olmos said on Sunday that it was preferable for Argentina to win the 2022 World Soccer Cup rather than vanquish its out-of-control inflation, giving more importance to a soccer tournament than to the country’s economic policy during the tournament.
Leftist leaders of free governments and authoritarian regimes around the world rapidly sent messages of congratulations and support to socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for narrowly winning Brazil’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.
A man identified as 35-year-old Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel was arrested late Thursday evening after apparently attempting to assassinate the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urging the State Department to consider imposing sanctions, including a ban on entering America, on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the region’s most prominent leftists.
Argentine Ambassador to China Sabino Vaca Narvaja scolded those who “demonize communism” and praised the Chinese Communist Party in an interview given to China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday.
The socialist government of Argentina joined several other impoverished nations in condemning Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday for visiting Taiwan and loudly proclaiming its allegiance to communist China.
The government of Paraguay confirmed on Wednesday that it did not accept a request by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address Thursday’s Mercosur summit, a rare rejection of a head of state who has made video appearances at international events critical to war efforts against invading Russia.
China has agreed to back Argentina’s tenuous claim to the Falkland Islands in exchange for Buenos Aires backing Beijing’s claim on Taiwan.
Argentina’s government officially joined Beijing’s infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on Sunday, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Chile elected Gabriel Boric its president on Sunday, a sharp turn left after two years of Marxist mob violence targeting churches and government institutions. Boric is a far-left radical protest organizer endorsed by the Communist Party.
Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reposted remarks by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki this week claiming that soaring meat prices were the product of corporate “greed” in an apparent attempt to defend her socialist administration’s woeful economic policies.
Argentina’s socialist Peronist coalition received a pummeling at the polls on Sunday, losing the Senate for the first time since 1983 and suffering major defeats in Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro compared his Argentine counterpart, socialist Alberto Fernández, to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and laughed at him in response to Fernández declaring his country’s citizens superior to Brazilians because the latter “came from the jungle.”
Socialist President Alberto Fernández of Argentina apologized on Thursday after remarks the day before in which he implied that Argentine civilization was superior to that of its neighbors because Argentines “arrived on boats that came from Europe.”
