Andrew Stoughton is a writer and translator based in Buenos Aires.

03.11.2024

• Andrew Stoughton

Aligning With Washington Is Bad News for Argentina

Argentina’s biggest trade partners are Brazil and China, but President Javier Milei is making them into enemies. Desperate to suck up to US interests, Milei’s Cold Warrior foreign policy is an ideological relic, out of touch with a multipolar world.

12.27.2023

• Andrew Stoughton

Javier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians

Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has issued a decree with over 350 reforms tearing up labor rights and privatizing industries. The “shock therapy” plan marks a dangerous expansion of the president’s powers — but it also faces fierce opposition.