Javier Milei

Ahead of Sunday’s vote, the far-right candidate has garnered support from all ages and social classes, although his most active followers are young men

The far-right Libertad Avanza party is also in favor of legalizing the sale of organs, the free use of weapons and repealing the 2020 abortion law

A firebrand economist-turned-lawmaker who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist and says the answer to reining in annual inflation now running around 140% is to get rid of the Central Bank and dollarize the economy

This week’s currency worries have an unprecedented feature: the favorite candidate in the polls, the far-right Javier Milei, has exacerbated it by recommending that the public get rid of their pesos because they are not worth ‘excrement’

The first encounter between the presidential candidates ended without a clear winner or any significant blows that could tip the balance among the three main contenders, Javier Milei, Sergio Massa and Patricia Bullrich

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the founder of Latinobarómetro — the largest public opinion survey in Latin America — analyzes the ‘democratic recession’ that she describes in her latest report

Thousands of people took to the streets to protest the far-right leader, who has promised to repeal the right to abortion, eliminate the Ministry of Women and restrict sex education

A third of Argentine voters are under the age of 29. They get the bulk of their information from social media and online videos, where the extreme-right has taken over the spaces with self-managed groups

The daughter, niece and granddaughter of soldiers who participated in Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), the vice presidential candidate is stirring up the culture wars on behalf of her country’s extreme-right

The film — produced by the Mexican actor and conservative activist Eduardo Verástegui — premiered in Latin America, having received support from far-right political figures, such as Mayor Sandra Cuevas in Mexico and President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador

Rodrigo Valdés, the director of the Western Hemisphere division at the International Monetary Fund, warns that the dollarization that ultra-right candidate Javier Milei proposes for Argentina ‘will require seeking a lot of political support’

Over 70 clergy celebrated an open-air mass in response to insults by the far-right candidate who called the pontiff an imbecile, a communist and satanic

The presidential candidate’s party has taken part in a tribute to the ‘other victims’ of the regime, which human rights groups say threatens the ‘basic agreements’ of the past 40 years of democracy

The Salvadoran president’s strategy for dealing with gangs has eroded democratic freedoms and rights, but is also tantalizing for many politicians

The presidential front-runner says the government will stop funding research if he is elected

The winner of Argentina’s primary elections is against abortion and supports the right to bear arms. But, at the same time, he’s in favor of the legalization of drugs and defends a person’s right to choose their own gender

Abused as a child and perpetually enraged as an adult, the far-right candidate won in the first round of the presidential elections after capitalizing on the vote of fed-up Argentines and setting the political agenda with his histrionics

The anti-abortion economist, who wants to abolish the state, gets 30% while the traditional right wing coalition comes second, just one point ahead of the ruling Peronist party

The South American country is holding a vote to decide the contenders for the presidential elections, amidst an inflation rate of 115% and the brutal death of an 11-year-old girl

The far-right presidential candidate appeals to weariness among the citizenry. He greeted his supporters in a semi-full stadium in Buenos Aires, in the lead-up to the closing months of the campaign

The right-wing libertarian sat down with EL PAÍS to discuss his radical proposals to reform his country’s economic system. He declares himself to be against ‘anything obligatory,’ including compulsory voting