Argentina

Newsweek: Javier Milei’s record borrowing and market interventions have deepened Argentina’s crisis, exposing the failures of his anti-state economic strategy.

Foreign Policy:  Mark Weisbrot writes for Foreign Policy about the IMF’s decision to loan tens of billions more to Milei’s government in Argentina, despite that half of the IMF board reportedly opposed the new loan.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is at the center of a crypto scam scandal — but Donald Trump has done essentially the same thing here.

Counterspin: Janine Jackson, author, program director, and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show Counterspin, interviewed Mark Weisbrot, economist and CEPR co-director, on Javier and the Argentine presidential election.

With the aim of contributing to a knowledge society for Latin America, Martín Guzmán, former Minister of Economy of Argentina, and Rafael Correa, former President of Ecuador,

The United States is excluding Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the forthcoming Summit of the Americas. Washington probably wasn’t expecting that much of Latin America, led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would publicly push back in response.

The IMF’s launch of its much-publicized new gender strategy, while its surcharge policy remains intact, should be seen for what it is: hypocrisy.

Project Syndicate: After long pushing failed belt-tightening policies, the International Monetary Fund has agreed to a deal that will allow Argentina’s government to pursue a pro-growth strategy.

Foreign Policy: In the end, in a democracy, it is the voice of the citizens of the country that must be heard most loudly.

This report finds that International Monetary Fund (IMF) surcharges are inappropriate and unjustifiable, particularly during a pandemic combined with a very uneven recovery from a pandemic-driven world recession.