Hayden Davis, a co-creator of the $LIBRA token, allegedly claimed in text messages sent mid-December that he sent payments to Argentine President Javier Milei's sister.

"I realized, it can cause you legal troubles," Jonatan Viale says after being cut off while recording the interview

Argentine economists, crypto specialists and opposition political figures criticized the self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" president, an economist by training, and said the digital asset could be a fraud or a Ponzi scheme.

The Libra token, launched on the Solana blockchain, saw its market value rapidly rise past $4 billion before collapsing. He is facing several lawsuits

Argentine lawyers filed fraud charges against President Javier Milei Sunday following his promotion of the $LIBRA token, which hit a $4 billion market cap before crashing over the weekend after he pulled support for the project.

Inflation, the perennial bugbear of South America's second-biggest economy, was down from 2.7% in December, it said, and January was the fourth straight month in which prices rose by less than 3%.

On Wednesday, Argentina announced it would follow the United States out of the World Health Organization, echoing Trump's repeated complaints about what he called the body's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a statement, Javier Milei's administration accused the WHO of leading them to "the longest lockdown in human history"

"Happy times are coming in Argentina," Milei said in a televised speech, in which he celebrated progress on monthly inflation which has dropped under his cost-slashing agenda, even as poverty has risen.

Pensioners have taken the most pain in a year of budget-slashing by maverick "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei, whose austerity measures have tipped an additional five million people into poverty since he took power last year.

The president, an ardent defender of deregulation in all spheres of society, wants to change the statutes of the country's several thousand football clubs to allow them to become privately-owned for-profit companies.

The list also includes president Braziluan Lula da Silva and Panama's Jose Raúl Mulino but not Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum

The firing of Diana Mondino took place amid ongoing tensions with President Javier Milei, who appointed Gerardo Werthein, previously Argentina's ambassador in Washington, as her successor.

Milei last week vetoed a law approved by the Senate that envisaged regular funding increases for public universities, whose budgets have been slashed by the libertarian president.

Video of the two speeches side-by-side has amassed more than 21,000 on YouTube, with dozens of social media users poking fun at Milei.

Javier Milei and Maduro are regional foes and have traded public barbs over the past months

The warrant was issued over the "theft" of a Venezuelan plane seized in Buenos Aires for alleged sanctions violations. But it is only symbolic as Milei is unlikely to set foot in this country, where the warrant applies.

Since taking office in December, the budget-slashing Milei has applied a drastic austerity program in a bid to rein in chronic inflation and decades of government overspending.

The fútbol legend was a fierce supporter of the Maduro regime until his death in November of 2020

The six asylum seekers are all affiliated to Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González

The president used his Argentine counterpart as a model of what direction the country could go on if he loses Sunday's elections

A mouthpiece for the Iranian government said Tehran will "not forget Buenos Aires' anti-Iranian policy" and it will "make it feel sorry for its enmity."

Milei, who has snubbed a meeting of the Mercosur South American bloc that will be attended by Bolsonaro's leftist successor Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in Paraguay on Sunday, traveled to Brazil instead for a weekend meeting of the CPAC conservative group.

Though the country's farmers largely gave their votes to President Javier Milei in the November election, they now want him to deliver on promises to slash taxes and ease exchange rate controls.

Late in the evening, the package won approval "in general" in the Senate, an important step for Milei's effort to finally get his flagship reforms across the finish line.

Accompanied by his economy minister, Milei is set to meet representatives of OpenAI, Apple and Google this week, as well as Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni told reporters.

Aid to tens of thousands soup kitchens was frozen after Milei took office in December vowing to slash public spending and weed out corruption in the social welfare system.

The European Union also stepped into the row, its foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemning Milei's remarks.

Milei's economic reform program has been praised by many international institutions -- including the International Monetary Fund

The actor spent most of his childhood in the South American country and has always been vocal about his connection with it