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The Argentine Church ramps up criticism of President Javier Milei's austerity measures
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/09/19/the-argentine-church-ramps-up-criticism-of-president-javier-milei-s-austerity-measures_6745535_4.html

The Argentine president and his ilk of the right are organizing a "Derecha Fest", makes me wonder why they didn't go with the much catchier "Nazipalooza" instead. 🤦‍♂️

Argentine Bonds Jump on News US Lining Up $40 Billion in Aid (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/argentine-bonds-jump-as-bessent-pledges-40-billion-in-total-aid
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p90#a251015p90

Scientists thought this Argentine glacier was stable. Now they say it's melting fast #Argentina

Scientists thought this Argentine glacier was stable. Now they say it's melting fast
An iconic Argentinian glacier, long thought one of the few on Earth to be relatively stable, is now undergoing its "most substantial retreat in the past century," according to new research.

Treasury Secretary Bessent,
a former hedge fund manager,
is orchestrating a $20 billion lifeline to prop up the Argentine peso,
which has been declining in value.
The backstop is intended to support Argentina’s economy
and its president, Javier Milei.
On Friday, Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department had intervened for at least a second time to buy pesos
At the center of his bet is that the currency of Argentina
— a debt-ridden country whose…

Bessent Stakes Credibility and Taxpayer Money on Argentina Bet
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s multibillion-dollar bailout of a serial defaulter raises the specter of losses for the United States.

So sad. The first #glacier I saw in 2018, during our honeymoon.
Indeed at a time they were telling us the glacier wasn’t really impacted by climate change, I had not truly understood why.
Such a majestic and unique place to visit.

Until now, I thought that a government shutdown in the US meant that the government ran out of money.
Apparently this only means: out of money for domestic purposes, not for giving it away to other countries. #TrumpShutdown #EpsteinShutdown
"US is working on doubling aid to…

US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion
The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina. This would be on top of a $20 billion credit swap line pledged earlier this month to support Argentina's currency. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the additional help involves private banks and sovereign funds. But President Donald Trump has said the American assistance could be pulled if Argentine President Javier Milei's party doesn't win upcoming elections. Trump's comments ca…

How does it feel to have given $60 of your money to bail out Argentina?
What, you did not know that $60 was pulled out of your pocket (and the pocket of every man, women, and child in the US) to be gifted unto Argentina?
https://www.pbs.org/newsho…

WATCH LIVE: Trump meets with Argentina's Milei as U.S. prepares $20 billion bailout
Experts see two objectives for Milei at the White House. One is to negotiate U.S. tariff exemptions for Argentine products. The other is determine how the U.S. will implement its currency swap line to replenish Argentina's depleted currency reserves ahead of the country's crucial midterm elections this month.

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/17/l-opus-dei-mis-en-cause-dans-une-affaire-de-traite-…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
Suite à des plaintes de femmes affirmant avoir travaillé sans salaire et dans des conditions très difficiles pour l’institution catholique conservatrice, le numéro deux de l’organisation, basée à Rome, pourrait être mis en examen. Quatre responsables argentins ont déjà été mis en examen en 2024.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina
Argentine President Javier Milei,
a staunch ally of Donald Trump,
hailed the initiative
-- even as some MAGA supporters grumble.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing Thursday a
$20 billion economic support package
-- and the purchase of Argentine pesos
aimed at stabilising the South American nation’s volatile markets.
“Lending money to Argentina is easy;
getting repaid is what is hard,”

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms
The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

PSA: une traduction possible de l'expression "pédaler dans la choucroute" en espagnol d'Argentine est "remar en dulce de leche" ce qui se traduit littéralement comme "ramer dans de la confiture de lait" et je trouve cela merveilleux.

US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bessent-argentina-milei-currency-swap-7432a188e57264f0e5f6c753ddc40879

Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month.
Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province,
losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted …

Milei's party crushed in Argentine local elections
The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province while the left-leaning Peronist opposition secured 47%, with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. With Milei’s close associates embroiled by a gr…

An Argentinian judge blocks journalists from publishing audio recordings attributed to President Milei's sister and advisor Karina Milei, ahead of midterms (Federico Rivas Molina/El País)
https://english.elpais.co…

Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Argentine government denounces illegal espionage operation carried out by ‘individuals linked to Russian intelligence services’ ahead of crucial midterm election

Miguel Ángel Russo passed away yesterday. Besides his sports achievements, he was loved and respected everywhere he go. And he died doing what he loved and being fully conscious about it, I can't think of a better way to leave this life.
Today, football is a little bit worse.
https://www.batimes.…

We'll miss you, Miguel
Charismatic, easy-going and more often than not spotted on the touchline with a smile on his face, Miguel Ángel Russo was an old school symbol of Argentine football who was able to adapt enough to stay relevant almost three decades into the 21st century.

The U.S. bought Argentine pesos, Bessent says (Jeffrey Cane/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/trump-millei-argentina-bessent
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p118#a251009p118

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-target-sales-r…

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies
Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...

Young Woman Accidentally Booked an Airbnb that Turned Out to Be Her Father’s Childhood Home in Italy https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-woman-accidentally-booked-an-airbnb-that-turned-out-to-be-her-fathers-chil…

Young Woman Accidentally Booked an Airbnb that Turned Out to Be Her Father’s Childhood Home in Italy
By 1950, around 3.5 million Italians had immigrated to Argentina, and this summer, Flor, a young Argentine planned to visit her father's village

Un train stationne Š Argentine vers Château de Vincennes en raison d'une panne de portes de train .
🤖 04/09 21:47

TIL this is a thing in 🇦🇷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_of_Football

«“We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” […] It’s not only Milei’s administration melting away; so too are his once-packed international throng of cheerleaders and wolf-whistlers. Farage, Badenoch, Musk and all the rest are maintaining a red-faced silence. Curious, that..»
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-target-sales-r…

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies
Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...

Evaluation of preprocessing pipelines in the creation of in-the-wild TTS datasets
Mat\'ias Di Bernardo, Emmanuel Misley, Ignacio Correa, Mateo Garc\'ia Iacovelli, Sim\'on Mellino, Gala Luc\'ia Gonzalez Barrios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03111

Evaluation of preprocessing pipelines in the creation of in-the-wild TTS datasets
This work introduces a reproducible, metric-driven methodology to evaluate preprocessing pipelines for in-the-wild TTS corpora generation. We apply a custom low-cost pipeline to the first in-the-wild Argentine Spanish collection and compare 24 pipeline configurations combining different denoising and quality filtering variants. Evaluation relies on complementary objective measures (PESQ, SI-SDR, SNR), acoustic descriptors (T30, C50), and speech-preservation metrics (F0-STD, MCD). Results expose…

The #Argentina miracle that some claimed might not last a while…
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250919-argentin…

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/argentina-pushes-pipeline-exports-through-protected-patagonian-waters/

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters
San Matías Gulf, on the northern coast of Argentina’s Patagonia region, is one of the most biodiverse areas in the Argentine Sea. The Valdés Peninsula — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 and a biosphere reserve since 2014 — forms its southern border. It’s surrounded by Islote Lobos National Park, the Puerto Lobos and […]

Le 27 juillet, les arrêts ne sont pas desservis Š Tuileries, Concorde, Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George V, Charles de Gaulle - Etoile et Argentine en raison d'une manifestation sportive
🤖 27/07 04:53

Le 27 juillet, les arrêts ne seront pas desservis Š Tuileries, Concorde, Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George V, Charles de Gaulle - Etoile et Argentine en raison d'une manifestation sportive
🤖 27/07 04:45

Argentina Is Losing Faith in Milei’s Free-Market Revolution
The Argentine leader faces shrinking public support as factories close and the economy falters before a pivotal midterm election
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/argentina-is-losing-faith-in-mileis-free-market-revolution-9475ba42