2024 starts on the wrong foot for the ultraliberal economist and president of Argentina, Javier Milei, after the Justice of that country determined that his labor reform proposal, presented as a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU), is unfeasible. Temporarily, the National Chamber of Labor Appeals of the neighboring country to the south decided this […]
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Argentina: oil companies apply fuel increases of around 27%
Oil companies on Wednesday increased the value of fuels in Argentina around 27% within the framework of the price liberalization policy of the president’s government Javier Milei, ultra-liberal profile. The increases were arranged by Axion, Shell and the Argentine state-owned YPF, among other companies, which determined that hours before the increases were finalized, queues of […]
Argentine justice provisionally suspends Javier Milei’s labor reform
The National Chamber of Labor Appeals of Argentina today temporarily suspended the labor reform of the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU), signed by the Argentine president, Javier Milei, on the 20th to advance a broad deregulation of the economy. Judges Andrea García Vior and Alejandro Sudera issued a precautionary measure this Wednesday that annulled […]
IMF Mission arrives in Argentina to renegotiate debt financing
The government of the Argentine president Javier Milei will receive on Thursday a mission from International Monetary Fund (IMF) to renegotiate the payment agreement debt of some US$ 45,000 million that it considers to be inoperative. Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni told reporters on Tuesday that the objective of the visit is to renegotiate the agreement […]
They warn of “setback” in the protection of forests and glaciers in Milei reforms
The extensive package of reforms promoted by the president of Argentina, Javier Mileiimplies a “recoil” regulations that violate the protection of forests, glaciers and other natural resources, warn environmental organizations. Milei, who assumed the Argentine Presidency on December 10 and who during the campaign stated that the climate crisis is a phenomenon “cyclical regardless of […]
Argentina’s main labor union calls strike in January against Milei measures
The most important labor union in Argentina called on Thursday a general strike, with a mobilization of the National Congress, for January 24 in rejection of a series of measures promoted by the government of the ultraliberal president Javier Milei. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), which brings together many unions in the South American […]
Incidents and several detainees after the CGT concentration in Buenos Aires
Various incidents occurred this Wednesday in the center of Buenos Aires when police blocked traffic on some avenues and prevented the passage of hundreds of people who had participated in a rally called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and other social organizations in front of the Supreme Court of Argentina to protest against […]
Unions protest against Milei’s deregulatory decree in Argentina
Thousands of people demonstrated this Wednesday called by the labor unions in Argentina to ask the court to declare unconstitutional a decree of the ultraliberal president Javier Milei that promotes a profound deregulation of the economy. to the cry “the country is not for sale” and with Argentine flags, the protesters supported the petition that […]
Argentina will issue 20,000 and 50,000 peso bills due to high inflation
President Javier Milei confirmed that the Central Bank is preparing the issuance of 50,000 and 20,000 peso bills before the high inflation and the multiple complications that the lack of a higher denomination paper than the current one brings to the economy. The measure was announced in an interview with the LN+ channel, which also […]
Milei will send measures to Congress: “if they reject it I would call a plebiscite”
The Argentine president, Javier Mileiwill send a package of measures to Congress on Wednesday to be discussed in extraordinary sessions, indicated the presidential spokesperson, while thousands of people from different Trade union associations were protesting in the streets against a series of advertisements. “The text includes profound, necessary and urgent reforms in tax, labor, criminal, […]