United States President Donald Trump spoke to Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez and described her as a “terrific person” in a phone call on Wednesday. He went on to meet with opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House on Thursday. In a departure from her usual anti-imperialist discourse, Rodríguez called the conversation with Trump “long and cordial” in an X post. After those articles were published, Machado announced she wanted to give her prize to Trump to thank him for his government’s military operation in Venezuela. “We see this as a clear sign that the United States has control over Rodríguez.”

Bolivia has declared an “energy and social emergency” over fuel shortages, rising inflation, and a lack of dollar reserves. The announcement comes as center-right President Rodrigo Paz faces mounting economic and social turmoil just two months into his presidency. They will be allowed to use international prices, following the recent removal of fuel subsidies. Protests and roadblocksThe emergency declaration comes after Bolivia was practically paralyzed for six days last week due to protests and roadblocks against an economic austerity package that Paz issued by decree in December. It eliminated fuel subsidies, gave special benefits to those planning large investments in local natural resources, and froze public workers’ salaries, among other measures.

The World Bank trimmed the forecast for Argentina’s growth from 4.6% to 4% in its January Global Economic Prospects report published on Tuesday. According to the document, the country’s GDP is also expected to increase by 4% in 2027. “Domestic policy uncertainty late last year led to bouts of exchange rate pressure, prompting increases in market interest rates that are expected to weigh on domestic demand and growth this year,” the World Bank said in its report. The document also highlighted that the support Argentina received from the United States, “including the provision of swap lines, helped stabilize financial conditions.”In October, Argentina received a US$20 billion currency swap line from the Trump White House. The government has recently relaxed its exchange rate regime even further, as it now updates the currency bands based on inflation.

The Argentine government announced on Wednesday it declared the Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization with links to other Islamic organizations, such as Hamas and Hezbollah. “This measure strengthens mechanisms for the prevention, early detection, and punishment of terrorism and those who finance it, so that members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies cannot act freely,” reads the communiqué. Argentine Foreign Ministry warns citizensOn Wednesday, the Argentine Foreign Ministry also posted a message on X, warning Argentine citizens residing in the Middle East to “stay alert” in light of “current events” in the region. In its message, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said they’re in constant contact with Argentine embassies in the region, who are closely monitoring developments.

The United States has suspended all immigration visa processing for 75 countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua, among many others. Processing will resume after the U.S. government “can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people,” they wrote in their post. The Latin American countries included in the suspension are mostly nations with left-leaning and progressive governments, many of which Trump has had public spats or tension with, like Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Brazil’s Lula da Silva and Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel. Who’s affectedThe list of affected countries includes several from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The full list of countries in the Americas is as follows:– Antigua and Barbuda– Bahamas– Barbados– Belize– Brazil– Colombia– Cuba– Dominica– Grenada– Guatemala– Haiti– Jamaica– Nicaragua– St. Kitts and Nevis– St. Lucia– St. Vincent and the Grenadines– Uruguay

The 2026 tennis season is kicking into action, with the first major tournament of the year, the Australian Open, set to begin on Sunday. Cerúndolo leads the men’s singles effortIn the men’s singles draw, world No.20 Francisco Cerúndolo will lead the way. She’ll be competing at the Australian Open main draw for the first time, having fallen in the first qualifying round the previous year. She’ll match up against Moyuka Uchijima from Japan in the first round of the Australian Open. How to watch the 2026 Australian Open in Argentina?

They also valued the work, “Portrait of a Lady,” at up to 250,000 euros (USD291,000). The painting was owned by Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer based in Amsterdam, and looted by Nazis. For decades, its last known whereabouts had been in Switzerland in 1946, in the hands of high-ranking Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien. She is now a plaintiff in the Mar del Plata case. It is now under investigation by the Mar del Plata Prosecution Unit, led by Carlos Martínez.

Researchers have discovered a huge new dinosaur in Argentina’s southern province of Neuquén. A team of researchers with CONICET, Argentina’s publicly-funded research institute, announced the discovery in the journal Historical Biology on Monday. This is the third new dinosaur found in Bajo de la Carpa, a geological formation in the Neuquén Basin. Excavation took until 2014, when the fossils were transported to the Museo Municipal “Argentino Urquiza,” in Neuquén. It took another decade for the team to describe and name the new dinosaur.

13,600 hectares have been lost to the blaze there, according to information from the Provincial Fire Management Service. Over 20 houses, a ranch and two hotels have been burned down since the wildfires began on January 5. The cause of the firesTorres addressed theories regarding how the fires in Puerto Patriada and Epuyén began. The RAM has been accused in the past by the national and provincial governments in Patagonia of being behind attacks and illegal land occupation. Speaking with the Herald’s sister TV network C5N, the woman, who identified herself as Rocío Brizuela, outright rejected the accusations.

Part of her “Ma Vie World Tour”, in which she presents her fifth studio album, “View,” her show will take place on February 8th at the Movistar Arena. Lollapalooza will take place at the San Isidro Horsetrack in the northern area of the Buenos Aires province, so if you’re staying in Buenos Aires City, plan your transportation ahead. Later that month, hard-rock titans AC/DC will return to Buenos Aires for three shows on March 23, 27 and 31 at River Plate Stadium. Looking ahead to November, Primavera Sound Buenos Aires is expected to unveil a lineup with top-tier artists. Lately, only a few of the headliners from the original Barcelona-based festival make it down to the Buenos Aires version.

Venezuela is moving forward with the process of releasing hundreds of political prisoners held in jails by the Chavista government. On Monday, the release of Argentine-Israeli Yaacob Harary, imprisoned since 2024, was confirmed. The 72-year-old man had been arrested on September 4, 2024, when he crossed the border from Colombia. After more than a year in El Rodeo I prison, the human rights organization Foro Penal confirmed that Harary was among those recently released. On Monday the Venezuelan government released a list of 116 people freed from prison.

Prices in Argentina increased 31.5% in 2025, the lowest inflation rate since 2017, according to a report by the INDEC statistics bureau. Monthly inflation in December was 2.8%. That month alone, prices increased by 8.3%. With December’s data, monthly inflation has now remained flat or risen for the past eight months. She said that the new, inflation-indexed scheme was an “admission” that inflation will increase in the coming months.

The 2001 economic and social meltdown in Argentina has been extensively depicted in local cinema. Like an atmospheric, dark version of John Carpenter’s Carrie set in the Buenos Aires suburbs, Casabé’s film, which premiered in the Sundance film festival last year, refracts adolescent desire through the lens of Argentina’s broken-down society. The script by Benjamin Naishtat (Rojo, Puán) quickly interweaves Natalia’s dark teenage drama with a violent episode that happens right in front of her home. And in Enriquez’s world that includes, of course, summoning dark, otherworldly powers. In the crossroads of Casabé’s and Enriquez’s universes, it is ultimately that unseen malevolent power — and not love — that can tear you apart.

Low-cost airline Flybondi has canceled 125 flights between last Thursday and Monday at the start of the summer high season in Argentina. The cancellations affected 22,000 passengers on domestic and regional flights, and represented 25% of the airline’s scheduled flights for that period. According to the company, the high number of cancellations were due to “operational reasons” and low availability of planes to comply with the scheduled flights. In a statement sent to the Herald, Flybondi confirmed they had to cancel 125 flights in the past five days, but said they correctly operated over 520 domestic and international flights. Flybondi said that four A320 planes arrived in Argentina on Saturday to strengthen the company’s fleet until March, when the summer tourism season ends.

Argentines are abandoning traditional local holiday resorts in favor of the beaches of Brazil, recent data indicates. Recent figures from the Brazilian tourist authorities showed that 72% more Argentines (3.4 million) visited Brazil in 2025 than the previous year. In both years, Argentines were the largest group of tourists in Brazil. Tourist numbers in disputeIn November, Argentina received 3% fewer visitors while 15% more Argentines went abroad compared with the previous year, according to the latest figures from the INDEC statistical bureau. With the old method, the country would have a US$10 billion negative tourism balance, and with the new one, the negative balance is US$7 billion, the Tourism Secretary posted on X.