This Month
Chileans reject constitution overhaul for second time
The latest vote highlighted the deep division in the South American country and the inability of political sectors to address people’s demands for change.
- Maria Verza and Patricia Luna
- Analysis
- Currencies
Why investors are cheering Argentina’s ‘shock therapy’
Analysts believe the radical measures announced this week by new President Javier Milei offer a realistic opportunity to rescue the South American economy.
- Tim Wallace
Argentina’s left vows resistance as Milei slashes budget
Union leaders called meetings after shock measures announced by the new president, while the left-leaning governor of Buenos Aires vowed to fight.
- Michael Stott
‘Shock therapy’: Argentines 54pc poorer as president devalues peso
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, is taking the first steps in a shock-therapy program to try and pull the country from an inherited economic crisis.
- Updated
- Kevin Simauchi, Manuela Tobias and Ignacio Olivera Doll
Venezuelans vote to claim sovereignty over oil-rich chunk of Guyana
It remains unclear how President Nicolas Maduro will enforce the results. But Guyana considers the referendum a step towards annexation.
- Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda
- Opinion
- Mining
How Argentina’s Javier Milei looks set to undercut Australian lithium
The president-elect’s country holds 21 per cent of the world’s proven reserves. It is today producing just 6 per cent of supply. This is about to change.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
November
Trump tells Milei he plans to visit Buenos Aires
Argentina’s president-elect, Javier Milei, earlier this year called on the former US president to “continue with his fight against socialism”.
- Daniel Politi
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Thank Britain for why Australia isn’t Argentina
Trying to understand Argentina’s failure should also make Australians think more deeply about the sources of this country’s success.
- The AFR View
Trump-loving new president’s plan to end economic chaos in Argentina
A self-described “anarcho-capitalist”, Javier Milei has proposed abolishing the central bank and taking a “chainsaw” to public spending.
- Tim Wallace and Szu Ping Chan
Argentina elects ‘shock therapy’ libertarian Javier Milei as president
His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.
- Nicolás Misculin and Walter Bianchi
BHP aims to settle over Brazil dam disaster
A venture jointly owned by the miner and Vale faces alleged liabilities in the tens of billions of dollars.
- Michael Pooler and Harry Dempsey
