Javier Milei, the far-right economist who wants to close down the Central Bank and liberalize gun ownership, has won Argentina’s presidential election. Milei, of the La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances, or LLA) had 56% of the vote with 87% counted. Economy Minister Sergio Massa had 44%, a difference of 12 percentage points. After four years under President Alberto Fernández’s center-left government, Milei drags Argentina’s window of discourse dramatically to the right. You may also be interested in: Sergio Massa: the ‘unity’ candidate facing a perfect stormMilei surprised the country by coming first in Argentina’s primary elections in August.

Far-right libertarian candidate Javier Milei gave a restrained victory speech on Sunday night after early results showed him winning the Argentine presidential run-off with 56% of the vote (98% counted). Milei was welcomed to the podium by his sister Karina, who will reportedly become the country’s first lady. The economist cum congressman took the stage to the sound of Vamos por la Gloria by La Beriso. “They should shoulder their responsibility until the end of their mandate,” Milei said, referring to the current administration led by President Alberto Fernández. Milei described their backing of his candidacy as “a patriotic and generous move never seen before in Argentina.”“I want to thank voting station volunteers from LLA and the PRO who stood their ground to defend the vote,” Milei said.

“Argentina has a serious problem with memory,” he tells the Herald following a brief tour of the archive he has named Filmoteca Buenos Aires. Peña is also the film curator at Malba museum and runs a self-managed festival named ‘Bazofi’ (a pun on the Buenos Aires film festival’s acronym, Bafici), where he shows all sorts of rarities from his collection. A state-managed, well-funded facility to preserve, restore, and exhibit the country’s vast film production, which, sadly, is mostly lost forever. Peña’s thorough detective work tracked it down and finally found it, unidentified, in the Buenos Aires Film Museum. The first Argentine film law passed by Congress in 1999 actually declared the country in a state of “film heritage emergency”.

Sex education is a contentious topic that’s often mired in political controversy, and Argentina is no different. With conservative factions targeting sex ed globally in recent years, Argentina saw a spate of new attacks towards the ESI in 2023 — particularly on the campaign trail of the far-right coalition La Libertad Avanza (LLA). Passed in 2006, the ESI established that sex ed classes should go beyond information on sexual intercourse to tackle topics including emotional regulation and reproductive rights, with subjects evolving as is age-appropriate. “Catholic schools developed an entirely different sex ed curriculum based on that article, with some materials teaching abstinence and that homosexuality is an illness.”Now, the ESI’s most vocal detractors in 2023 hail from LLA. “It gives space to those who were already uncomfortable with the ESI,” Maylans told the Herald, citing certain families protesting that semen had been mentioned in a sixth-grade class as an example.

A 23-year-old woman died of cardiac arrest due to dehydration during U.S. singer Taylor Swift’s concert in Rio de Janeiro on Friday night. Brazil is going through an extreme heat wave — that day, the temperature reached 39°C, while the thermal sensation hit 60°C. Tickets For Fun (T4F,) the company in charge of organizing the event, said the young woman was immediately assisted by paramedics. During the show, Swift herself complained about the heat and asked for water to be given to the fans. She was about to graduate in Psychology next April, saving money,” he told Folha de São Paulo newspaper.

Producer Bizarrap won three Latin Grammy awards at a glittering ceremony on Thursday. 52”, which earned them the award for “best urban song”. 53.” The song, dedicated to her ex Gerard Piqué, earned them the “best pop song” and “song of the year” awards. Among the other top categories, Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade won “best singer-songwriter album,” “best singer-songwriter song” and “recording of the year” for her album “De todas las flores” (Of All the Flowers). But, speaking at the awards ceremony, he let on that he’d like to work with the innovative Spanish star, Rosalía.

Argentina’s vast natural resources have made it a key geopolitical player in an age of energy transition and global food scarcity. These include Argentina’s biggest trade partners: Brazil, the United States, and China. “He recognizes the importance of foreign investment and trade to Argentina’s economic recovery.”The stance that Argentina’s next president takes towards China is something U.S. officials will carefully monitor. “For China, this is a key election for several reasons,” said Patricio Giusto, director of the Sino-Argentine Observatory. “A Milei victory carries a significant risk of rupture.”On Sunday, Argentina and its allies will learn if the center can hold.

While LLA made multiple public claims of large disparities following the first round, the final vote count revealed the lowest-ever difference between the provisional and final tallies. Citing anonymous sources, LLA claimed that military police tampered with the vote count when handling ballot boxes— saying that unknown paid actors altered the name of the winning coalition from LLA to Unión por la Patria (UxP), for example. The first round showed marginal differences between the two — the lowest-ever between the provisional and final vote tallies. Servini has previously rejected LLA’s allegations of fraud, alongside the Electoral Court, saying that they have no concrete basis. You may also be interested in: Milei pushes electoral fraud narrative echoing Roger Stone tactics

Buenos Aires City’s National Electoral Board warned the party of far-right presidential candidate Javier Milei that it would be the “sole responsible party” should there be a lack of ballots during the presidential run-off scheduled for Sunday. Since late October, the coalition has been attempting to establish a narrative of electoral fraud, particularly surrounding polling station monitors and the vote count. Cerimedo, Viola, and other LLA representatives said that happened because of the absence of party monitors, something they think won’t happen in these elections. “From October to today, there are three coalitions that were left out of the running and will not participate in the run-off,” Viola said. However last week, Córdoba City’s vice-mayor-elect and HxC member, Javier Pretto, said he would vote for Milei in the run-off.

Ahead of the November 19 run-off, the Herald spoke to Massa and Milei voters and asked them about their reasons for supporting each candidate. Massa, a man “prepared to be president”High school principal Francisco Limardo (56) and journalist Eva Rey (30) are both Peronists. Milei and the appeal of “truth-telling”“He’s different,” says app-delivery worker Verónica Rea (20) when asked why she likes Milei. Milei voters, on the other hand, are “very tired” of politics and don’t believe it can solve their everyday problems. That year, Massa ran on the UxP national deputies ticket, while CFK was running for VP within the same coalition.

Economy Minister and Unión por la Patria (UxP) presidential candidate Sergio Massa said Wednesday he would renegotiate Argentina’s deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if he is elected president. It is also the biggest debt the IMF has ever had,” Massa said. Macri took out a US$44 billion debt from the IMF in 2018. In 2022, the government and the IMF signed an Extended Fund Facility agreement renegociating the deal. IMF staff and Argentina reached an agreement on the fifth and sixth reviews of the program in late July.

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The government moved the official exchange rate on Wednesday for the first time since August 13, when the value was fixed at AR$350 with a 22% currency devaluation. The decisions mean that the currency will depreciate by 3% monthly as of Wednesday, starting at AR$353 (three pesos more than on Tuesday). In its latest Market Expectations Survey (REM, by its Spanish initials) the Central Bank said that consultants expect the official exchange rate to be at AR$526.4 in December — much more than the monthly 3% promised by the government. When markets closed on Wednesday, the blue-chip swap rate had fallen slightly to AR$876 (-0.3%) and the MEP dollar rose by 2.6% to AR$870. According to the Ecolatina consulting firm, the average exchange rate gap is still slightly above 150%.

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Nunca hay que votar por la barbarie y… — Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) November 15, 2023On Tuesday, Massa shared a video Sánchez recorded wishing him success in the November 19 elections. pic.twitter.com/GNSzHdi8Sq — Sergio Massa (@SergioMassa) November 14, 2023Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica, who recently received President Alberto Fernández in Montevideo, also recorded a video of himself at home, saying he would vote for Massa. “If I were able to vote, I’d vote for Massa with both hands. pic.twitter.com/X5J2xkFzfB — Sergio Massa (@SergioMassa) November 14, 2023Without naming him, Brazilian president Lula da Silva also recently expressed his support for Massa, calling on Argentines to consider the region and the regional trade bloc Mercosur. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador called Milei a “fascist” and “ultraconservative” during a press conference on Tuesday, criticizing Milei’s comments against Pope Francis.