Tag: Adjustment
Argentina: Mass Blackout Hits Buenos Aires City
Over 500,000 users lost power in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a massive blackout with severe impact on public transport and affecting the subway system. A technical failure in the high-voltage system left on January 15 without electricity to large areas of the city of Buenos Aires and its Metropolitan Area, leaving approximately one million users […]
January 16, 2026
Argentinean Government’s Fiscal Adjustment Hits Essential Services Prices
Argentinean households face new rounds of significant tariff increases for electricity, gas, and water from January 2026, as the government implements a fiscal adjustment strategy, modifies subsidy schemes, and seeks to ensure the economic sustainability of public services. Argentina is ushering in 2026 with a substantial increase in public service tariffs, a move confirmed by […]
January 2, 2026
Bolivian President Paz Convenes Mayors to Discuss Emergency Decree 5503 Amid National Strike
Bolivian President called an urgent meeting with the mayors of the country’s departmental capitals to address the escalating national crisis triggered by Supreme Decree 5503. Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has called for a meeting with the mayors of the nine departmental capital cities and El Alto, in order to address Supreme Decree 5503, through which […]
December 23, 2025
Argentinean Deputies Approve Milei’s Adjustment Budget for 2026
Argentina’s Government managed in the early hours of this Thursday to give half sanction of Deputies to the Budget 2026, which would be the first Budget of the Milei Government, since during the last two years it resorted to extensions of the plan of expenses and revenues of 2023. President Javier Milei’s administration secured parliamentary […]
December 18, 2025
Argentine Workers Reject Massive Layoffs in the Public Sector
On Wednesday, thousands of former public employees and workers mobilized in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities to reject the massive layoffs ordered by President Javier Milei. RELATED: Gen. Richardson Visits Argentina to Secure SouthCom Projects Members of the State Workers Association (ATE) attempted to enter the Labor Ministry headquarters and other buildings to carry […]