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Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine President Javier Milei, who is traveling in the United States, announced on X that he is breaking up with his girlfriend. He had dated the actress Fatima Florez since his 2023 election campaign last summer. The two had been seen together as recently as Wednesday, when they were photographed while leaving a synagogue in southern Florida. Milei, who is Catholic but has expressed deep interest in Judaism, recently revealed that he had a Jewish ancestor. In a post late Friday on X, Milei described the breakup as amicable, writing that "we decided to end our relations...
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Washington (AFP) - Argentine President Javier Milei and former US president Donald Trump made calls to "make Argentina great again", as the right-wing firebrands met at a conservative conference on Saturday. Known for their distinctive hair, spicy oratory and rejection of traditional political norms, the two men met behind the scenes at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, which they addressed separately. And both were keen to repurpose Trump's electoral sales pitch -- "Make America great again" -- for the South American country. "Make Argentina great again," Trum...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken next week pays his first official visits to Brazil and Argentina, the State Department said Friday, as he looks for common ground with the Latin American powers' independent-minded leaders. Blinken will hold talks with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires and also take part in a Group of 20 meeting of foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro where he could have rare in-person interaction with his Russian counterpart. For the globe-trotting top US diplomat, it has been a striking absence to ...
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Buenos Aires (AFP) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lashed out at his Argentine counterpart Thursday, three days after the United States completed the seizure of a Venezuelan plane held in Buenos Aires since June 2022. "They stole our plane... Milei the bandit stole the plane from Venezuela. Javier Milei, the hero of the extreme right," Maduro said in a televised statement about the Argentine president. "He acts crazy or he is crazy or both at the same time," he added. The Boeing 747 cargo plane owned by Venezuelan company Emtrasur has been held in Argentina since landing there in 2022 fr...
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Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei has offered glimpses into how his seemingly contradictory spiritual practices -- including a recent embrace of Orthodox Judaism, the Catholicism embedded in Latin America and his own far-right philosophies -- influence his idiosyncratic worldview. The 53-year-old economist, whose inauguration is set for December 10, has frequently referred to both his study of the Torah -- the Jewish scripture which is also the first part of the Christian Bible -- and his identity as a Catholic. Milei has said he believes in God -- whom he insists i...
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New York (AFP) - A US judge on Friday ordered Argentina to pay nearly $16.1 billion to two companies that were not compensated as minority shareholders for the 2012 nationalization of the YPF oil giant. In a ruling that expanded on a prior judgment in favor of Petersen Energia and Eton Park Capital, federal judge Loretta Preska set the amounts that Argentina must pay the two firms in compensation. Preska ordered the South American nation to pay $7.5 billion in damages and $6.85 billion in interest to Petersen Energia. She also ordered Argentina to pay about $1.7 billion, between damages and in...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Excitement is building among Taylor Swift fans in Latin America who have endured months-long queues, expensive tickets and, in one case, assault to realize their dream of seeing the pop superstar. The 33-year-old singer-songwriter, who holds the women's record for most number one albums, will bring her "Eras" tour to the region from Thursday starting in Mexico, followed by Argentina and Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, Renan Rodrigues camped out for several nights to buy tickets for Swift's November 17-19 concerts at the Nilton Santos stadium. The 24-year-old DJ, who performs at ...
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New York (AFP) - Rafael Vinoly, a Uruguayan-born and New York-based architect known for designing landmark buildings around the world, has died at the age of 78, his family announced Friday. Vinoly's death Thursday was announced by his son Roman on the website of the family firm, Rafael Vinoly Architects. "He was a visionary who will be missed by all those whose lives he touched through his work," the son's statement said. Vinoly's sometimes controversial work features more than 600 structures around the world, including office and residential buildings, hotels, concert halls, stadiums and air...
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Buenos Aires (AFP) - A political crisis in inflation-ravaged Argentina that was sparked by the economy minister's resignation has spooked markets and generated fears resulting in panic buying and hasty price hikes, as the informal exchange rate soars. "Every day it's like going out to hunt a lion," Luis Sacco told AFP in front of his electronics store in the capital Buenos Aires. Since Monday, prices have risen dramatically at shops and businesses across the country. On Saturday, economy minister Martin Guzman resigned following months of pressure from inside President Alberto Fernandez's cent...
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Washington (AFP) - Paleontologists said Thursday they had discovered a new giant carnivorous dinosaur species that had a massive head and tiny arms, just like Tyrannosaurus rex. The researchers' findings, published in the journal Current Biology, suggest that small forelimbs were no evolutionary accident, but rather gave apex predators of the time certain survival advantages. Meraxes gigas -- named after a fictional dragon in the Game of Thrones book series -- was dug up over the course of four years during field expeditions in the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, starting with the skul...
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