https://sagire.online/topic/argentina/ Articles and notes about Argentina. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:40:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/e4fd8214/https://sagire.online/wire/e4fd8214/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:23:00 -0300About 32,300 companies, equivalent to 6% of all firms in the country, closed in Argentina between December 2023 and July 2026, according to a survey by the Fundar research center. Industrial output fell 3.2% in August from the same month in 2025, according to the national statistics institute (Indec). Economists say the country probably entered a technical recession in the third quarter of 2026, after two consecutive quarters of contracting activity.ArgentinaEconomyLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/2aa5ebd2/https://sagire.online/wire/2aa5ebd2/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:23:00 -0300Cristina Kirchner did not rule out running for Argentina’s presidency in 2027 against Javier Milei, provided she can overturn the lifetime ban on holding public office handed down in the Vialidad case. She summed up the condition: “When I recover my political rights, why not?”. The six-year prison sentence and the lifetime ban have already been upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.ArgentinaElectionsJustice https://sagire.online/rubio-nega-trump-assume-fuga-flavio/https://sagire.online/rubio-nega-trump-assume-fuga-flavio/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:30:00 -0300In Atlanta the secretary of state said Washington did not facilitate Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure. Hours later the president said the decision to let him in was his and that the senator can stay as long as he wants, while the Brazilian files describe an exfiltration assembled before the runoff.BrazilUnited StatesArgentinaElectionsMigrationJusticeDiplomacyExtradition https://sagire.online/wire/cb88d087/https://sagire.online/wire/cb88d087/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:21:00 -0300A former agent of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, reportedly accompanied Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on his flight from Brazil to Argentina, according to Opera Mundi. The information was published in Israel this Sunday, November 1, by The Jerusalem Post, based on a Brazilian Federal Police investigation obtained by CNN Brasil.BrazilIsraelArgentina https://sagire.online/wire/78421801/https://sagire.online/wire/78421801/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:22:00 -0300An investigation by a Brazilian security agency, revealed by CNN Brasil on Friday, found that a former Mossad agent who became a naturalized US citizen helped Flavio Bolsonaro leave the country in violation of a judicial order, according to the Jerusalem Post, which cites the report. According to the newspaper, the former agent arrived in Brazil on October 19 and accompanied the senator from Brasilia to the border, crossing the Tancredo Neves Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú in a van; the family then boarded a Gulfstream G400 jet operated by the Argentine airline Baires Fly, which refueled in Guayaquil and landed on Wednesday morning at Opa-locka Executive Airport near Miami. The State Department had said Flavio and his family would be granted US visas before his arrival in Miami. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had ordered the senator’s passports seized and barred him from leaving the country, and the Federal Police said it found no official record of his departure at border checkpoints. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry summoned Argentina’s representative to demand clarifications about possible involvement by Javier Milei’s government, the Jerusalem Post reported.BrazilUnited StatesArgentinaLatin AmericaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/ceb39153/https://sagire.online/wire/ceb39153/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:23:00 -0300Ambassador Celso Amorim, international adviser to the president of Brazil, told UOL that Brazil and Argentina are experiencing the worst moment in the history of their relations and that Javier Milei’s government “broke the minimum protocol for diplomatic relations”. In the interview with UOL, Amorim said there would be no “shouting match” with Milei and that the downgrading of Brazil’s diplomatic representation in Buenos Aires, and vice versa, should not be reversed in the short term. “Look, it is all unprecedented and terrible. It is the worst moment in the Argentina-Brazil relationship, but not because of us. We did not commit any aggression against Argentina,” he said.BrazilArgentinaDiplomacyLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/2d678d6b/https://sagire.online/wire/2d678d6b/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:22:00 -0300Brazil's foreign ministry asked Argentina for explanations on Thursday afternoon after the defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro passed through the country on his way to Miami, according to a diplomatic source who requested anonymity as they were not allowed to discuss the matter publicly. João Marcelo, the ministry's director of the South America department, received Argentina's chargé d'affaires, María Emilia Cortés, in a brief meeting.BrazilArgentinaDiplomacyLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/fa1ceffc/https://sagire.online/wire/fa1ceffc/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:23:00 -0300Argentina's foreign minister denied that Brazil had formally requested explanations over the escape of Flávio Bolsonaro, according to Carta Capital. Brazil's foreign ministry, for its part, summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Argentine embassy in Brasília, Maria Emília Cortés, to explain her government's role in the escape, two Brazilian government sources confirmed to Reuters, in a report republished by UOL.ArgentinaBrazilLatin AmericaDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/bbdfedcc/https://sagire.online/wire/bbdfedcc/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:22:00 -0300Brazil’s foreign ministry summoned on Thursday (October 29) Argentina’s chargé d’affaires in Brasília, minister-counselor Emilia Cortés, to demand explanations about the possible involvement of Javier Milei’s government in Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s flight to the United States (US), with a stopover on Argentine territory. The diplomat was received on the afternoon of the same Thursday by the head of the ministry’s Mercosur Department, João Marcelo Galvão de Queiroz, in Brasília, according to G1. The route began on the night of Tuesday (27), when Flávio and his family entered Argentina after crossing the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, which links Foz do Iguaçu, in Paraná state, to Puerto Iguazú, in Argentina’s Misiones province.BrazilArgentinaUnited StatesDiplomacyLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/fe6e8ba7/https://sagire.online/wire/fe6e8ba7/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300The Baires Fly airline says the flight that took Flávio Bolsonaro to the United States was paid for with $150,000 transferred from a company’s account at a US bank to an Argentine bank, according to The Hindu, in an AFP text. The intermediary holds US and Argentine passports, and the company’s head, Luis Grande, declined to reveal his identity. Grande, speaking by phone from Florida, said he was hired by a broker he has known for 10 years who lives in the US: “I was hired by a broker that I’ve known for 10 years, who lives in the United States.” The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that the plane was chartered by Jason Miller, an adviser to Donald Trump, the report added.BrazilUnited StatesArgentinaElectionsLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/c274bc13/https://sagire.online/wire/c274bc13/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:23:00 -0300Workers’ Party (PT) lawmakers asked Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) to investigate who organized, financed and facilitated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure from the country, despite an order from the Supreme Federal Court (STF), according to Opera Mundi. According to Brasil de Fato, the senator crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday and boarded a private jet 40 minutes later that made a stopover in Ecuador. Also according to Brasil de Fato, Argentine opposition lawmakers accused Javier Milei’s government of facilitating the escape and demanded recognition of Lula’s victory.BrazilArgentinaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/340e02ac/https://sagire.online/wire/340e02ac/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300The Brasil 247 blog says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio named the logistical movement Operation Alba, which took Flávio Bolsonaro out of Brazil, via Argentina, to Miami, where he arrived with his wife and two daughters. According to the Argentine newspaper La Nación, cited by the blog, Milei's strategist Santiago Caputo was in the province of Misiones when the private aircraft departed.BrazilArgentinaUnited StatesLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/c2476ada/https://sagire.online/wire/c2476ada/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:23:00 -0300Deputy Myriam Bregman of the Left Front told Opera Mundi that the opposition is filing a public information request in Congress on Wednesday over Flávio Bolsonaro's passage through Argentina. “It is clear that Milei collaborated,” she said. Argentina's National Directorate of Migration said in the early hours of Wednesday that Flávio, his wife and their two daughters crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 22:50 on Tuesday.ArgentinaBrazilElectionsJusticeLatin America https://sagire.online/wire/9fc4e88a/https://sagire.online/wire/9fc4e88a/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:23:00 -0300The Argentine government confirmed that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro crossed the Brazilian border on the night of Tuesday, October 27 and boarded a private plane bound for Ecuador, according to Opera Mundi. Forty minutes later, at 11:30 p.m., the senator, his wife and their two daughters boarded a Gulfstream G400 from Baires Fly in Puerto Iguazú, with Guayaquil listed as the destination, according to Brasil de Fato. From Guayaquil, the jet took off at 6:22 a.m. Brasília time, with an expected arrival at the executive airport in Opa-locka, Miami, around 10:40 a.m., according to flight-tracking site FlightAware, cited by Brasil de Fato.BrazilArgentinaEcuadorUnited StatesMigration https://sagire.online/wire/8b2dac24/https://sagire.online/wire/8b2dac24/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:22:00 -0300Flávio Bolsonaro and three relatives were recorded by Argentine migration authorities crossing the border at 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday, according to G1 — the new development after the departure from Brazil, the US visas and the canceled passports. At 11:30 p.m., the group boarded a private Baires Fly flight with Guayaquil, Ecuador, as its declared destination. US President Donald Trump said he would approve Flávio’s travel to the US: “Well, I would approve. I think they are good people. The election was very strange, and I thought it was terrible”.BrazilArgentinaEcuadorPolitical crisis