Overview
- President Javier Milei is scheduled to close the Council of the Americas on Thursday, addressing business leaders and diplomats while visible tensions inside his coalition mark the event.
- The macro picture shows clear stress: interest rates have jumped, credit delinquency hit record levels and the government is cutting liquidity to defend a dollar anchor at roughly $1,500, squeezing households and small firms.
- Patricia Bullrich publicly criticized the pace and impact of the government’s economic plan, then edited her message after it provoked friction inside La Libertad Avanza, signaling widening intra-coalition dissent.
- Governors from the northern provinces are coordinating a ‘law-by-law’ bargaining tactic in the Chamber of Deputies to extract concrete concessions rather than rely on discretionary transfers.
- Bolivia’s Fiscalía de Santa Cruz formally charged former Milei adviser Fernando Cerimedo with the attempted femicide of Nadia Beller and will seek pretrial detention, creating a cross-border legal and reputational complication for the administration.