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Argentina's newly sworn-in President Javier Milei (left) and his sister Karina arrive to the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 10, 2023
PROTESTERS ARE preparing to gather in Buenos Aires tonight in defiance of threats by newly elected Argentinian President Javier Milei of a harsh crackdown on dissent.
Just days after he took office, the far-right leader announced drastic economic measures that have angered social campaigners and trade unions.
Mr Milei’s measures, which he claimed were needed to address a severe economic crisis, include a 50 per cent devaluation of the country’s peso, cuts to energy and transport subsidies and the closure of some government ministries.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
