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☆ Argentina’s New President Wants to Adopt the U.S. Dollar as the National Currency
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Santiago Pérez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After weakening earlier this year, the U.S. dollar is pushing higher and could be headed back toward the 20-year high it touched in 2022. WSJ’s Dion Rabouin explains why this could be bad news for investors. Photo illustration: Noah FriedmanBUENOS AIRES—The self-styled anarcho-capitalist who won Argentina’s presidency on Sunday plans to ditch his nation’s peso and adopt the U.S. dollar as the national currency. President-elect Javier Milei ’s top campaign proposal was aimed at eradicating rampant inflation that has for decades ravaged Latin America’s third-biggest economy by removing the battered national currency from circulation and stripping the central bank of its power to print money. Uncontrolled money-printing to cover public expenditures, economists say, has fueled 143% inflation, one of the world’s highest.

Persons: WSJ’s Dion Rabouin, Noah Friedman BUENOS, Argentina’s, Javier Milei ’ Organizations: U.S ., Noah Friedman BUENOS AIRES, U.S

☆ How the Architect of Argentina’s Grim Economy Is Boosting His Presidential Bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAN MIGUEL, Argentina—As a so-called point man for the ruling Peronist political movement, Carlos Coronel does everything from organizing soccer tournaments in the working-class outskirts of Buenos Aires to helping the disabled secure artificial limbs. Now, as Argentina prepares for a presidential election on Sunday, he seeks to collect votes by fanning out across the teeming Rust Belt-like communities of a province whose voters are essential to winning the presidency.

Persons: Carlos Coronel Organizations: MIGUEL, Peronist Locations: Argentina, Buenos Aires

☆ Argentina’s Next President Will Face an Economy in Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES—As Argentines prepare to choose a new president later this month, the once-prosperous nation known for its baroque architecture and robust cattle is grappling with its most debilitating economic crisis in a generation. Grocery-store shelves increasingly lack basics such as toilet paper, coffee and rice as triple-digit inflation accelerates. Factories can’t import supplies because of dollar shortages, which forced General Motors to suspend production. Doctors say they don’t have materials to perform CT scans. Recently, long lines formed outside gas stations after drivers were told they could buy only a few dollars of fuel at a time.

Persons: Motors Organizations: BUENOS AIRES, Factories Locations: BUENOS

☆ Thawing U.S.-Venezuela Relations Raise Hope for Prisoner Releases
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Kejal Vyas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Pedro Martínez gets on his knees and prays for the release of his son. Photo: Rod Lamkey/Zuma PressThirteen months ago, on the day she celebrated her retirement, Elaine Cristella received a text message with a mug shot of her son and the news that the former Florida resident had been jailed in Venezuela. Security forces arrested her son, Joseph Cristella, in September last year at a bus stop shortly after he had crossed into Venezuela from Colombia to visit his fiancée, a Venezuelan. The charge: conspiracy against the Venezuelan state, his mother said.

Persons: Pedro Martínez, Rod Lamkey, Elaine Cristella, Joseph Cristella Organizations: Zuma, Security, Venezuelan Locations: Florida, Venezuela, Colombia, Venezuelan

☆ Argentina’s Ruling Party Candidate Takes Most Votes in Presidential Election
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brazil’s and Argentina’s leaders have revived the idea of a common currency in a bid to boost trade and reduce the region’s reliance on the U.S. dollar. WSJ’s Samantha Pearson explains why it is unlikely to be implemented anytime soon. Photo: Eve HartleyBUENOS AIRES— Sergio Massa , the ruling party’s candidate for president, came out on top in the first round of a presidential election Sunday, beating out a libertarian economist, Javier Milei , who had promised to lay waste to Argentina’s political establishment. With 92% of the votes counted, Massa took 36.3% of the votes, defying polls that had predicted Milei would be the victor.

Persons: Samantha Pearson, Eve Hartley BUENOS, Sergio Massa, Javier Milei, Massa Organizations: U.S .

☆ Argentines Vote to Choose President in Country Hard Hit by Economic Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Election workers prepared for Sunday’s elections at a school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to be used as a polling station. Photo: Mariana Nedelcu/ReutersBUENOS AIRES—Argentines began voting Sunday for a new president amid a grueling economic crisis marked by triple-digit inflation and growing poverty that is fueling political upheaval in the agricultural powerhouse. Leading the polls is Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and outsider who has tapped into voter anger at the political establishment with pledges to dismantle what he derides as Argentina’s “political caste.” He has promised to close ministries as part of his plan to slash public spending and replace the peso currency with the dollar to bring 138% inflation to heel in Latin America’s third-biggest economy.

Persons: Mariana Nedelcu, Javier Milei Organizations: Reuters, Reuters BUENOS AIRES — Locations: Buenos Aires, Reuters BUENOS AIRES

☆ Wild-Haired Former Rocker Promises to Remake Argentina if Elected President
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BUENOS AIRES— Javier Milei , high-powered chain saw in hand to demonstrate how he will carve up Argentina’s establishment, doesn’t sugarcoat what he would do if elected president Sunday. The self-styled libertarian pledges to lay waste to the country’s institutions and to the career politicians of all political stripes he calls “useless parasites” who form a “political caste” that must be excised.

Persons: Javier Milei Organizations: BUENOS AIRES Locations: BUENOS

☆ Read My Lips: No Taxes at All
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Six Suspects in Ecuador Assassination Are Killed in Prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador’s Police and Prison Chiefs Ousted After Assassination Suspects Killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Suspects in Ecuador Assassination Are Killed in Prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Was a Retirement Paradise for Americans. Then the Drug Gangs Arrived.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Photographs Andrés Yépez For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Hit by Car Bombs as Security Crisis Widens
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Chile Seeks to Find People Disappeared During Military Dictatorship
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Patricia Garip | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Leftist Lawyer and Businessman Headed to Runoff in Ecuador Election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Votes Sunday for New President After Candidate Gunned Down
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador’s Newest Candidate Also Fears for His Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( José De Córdoba | Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Argentina’s Dollar Bonds Plummet After Far-Right Outsider Wins Primary Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Argentina’s Financial Markets Plummet After Right-Wing Outsider Wins Primary Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Juan Forero | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Friend of Assassinated Presidential Candidate in Ecuador Replaces Him in Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Assassination Reflects Rapid Rise of Violent Cocaine Trade
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Ryan Dubé | José De Córdoba | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Declares State of Emergency After Presidential Candidate Is Killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuador Arrests Six Colombians in Slaying of Presidential Candidate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ecuadorean Presidential Candidate Who Had Denounced Gangs Is Assassinated
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Ryan Dubé | Juan Forero | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Argentina’s Ruling Peronists Await Defeat in Sunday Primary
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Ryan Dubé | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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