"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

Argentina's President Javier Milei faced his second general strike Thursday in just five months in office, as workers angered by austerity cuts brought the capital to a standstill.

"Milei's aim is to transform the entirety of Argentina into a colony," Maduro also said

Both met again during the Milken Institute's annual conference. The South American president had visited a Tesla factory in April

Approval in the lower house marked a much-needed win for Milei, but his party can't claim victory yet

The whittled-down bill includes some 230 articles -- down from the initial 600-plus rejected by lawmakers who sent the government back to the drawing board in February.

Indeed those savings may run out soon enough, with annual inflation approaching 290 percent and wage-earners losing about a fifth of their purchasing power.

Actor Colman Domingo and Brazil's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, also made the list

Government's spokesman Manuel Adorni said during a press conference that the contract was for around $300 million, noting that it was below the market cost. The deal includes four flight simulators, eight engines and spare parts for the aircraft for five years.