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Can the majority of Brazilians afford to live in Zona-Sul of Rio de Janeiro or in nicer areas of Sao Paulo or other major cities on their local wages? No, but like Argentina, plenty can still afford to get by even if some of them also feel that familiar working-class squeeze also felt in many...

Argentina is a market that is constantly re-inventing itself, for better or for worse. Simply keeping up with the constant and dramatic changes that also require you to constantly re-invent your business is more often than not more time and money than many foreign corporations are up for...

Insufficient salaries in profesional public jobs is nothing new in Argentina. The article links it to Milei’s Argentina yet fails to mention that during the last government highly skilled professionals such as medical doctors were barely earning US$300 a month, having regular strikes, and were...

The issue of insufficient medical salaries did not start during COVID. If you speak Spanish, try talking to a doctor, ask them how many hours they work and when the last time their salary at a public hospital was enough to get by on and how many hours a week they work.

Private medicine, botox and aesthetic medicine, uber/ cabify etc. I’ve even met one who worked shifts at a hotel. https://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/ocho-de-cada-10-medicos-tienen-mas-de-un-empleo/ An article dating back to 2020 that gives some insight into the prevalence of the issue.

Argentine doctors in public hospitals have for a decade or more been working side jobs… but yes, Milei makes it newsworthy.

For tourism it is not the cheapest place on earth, especially if you want “nice” things in “nice” parts of town. A night in best hotel in the country around €250-€300. A hair cut is around €10-15. A taxi from the airport to the city around €20. Two beers in a “nice” place around €15. An ok...

When a place is cheap enough, it is all too easy to overlook its "dark side". The reality is however that "dark side" has always existed, the guy just chose to not to see it or let it affect his “mental health” when he was enjoying his dollar privilege. These kind of negative expat experiences...

And the nominal PBI (GNP) is higher than any time since 2004 at US$15.161 https://www.infobae.com/economia/2025/0 (A number much higher than Brazil but slightly lower than Chile) While poverty is estimated to be “down” to 31.7% in Q1 2025...

Foreigners already do not pay VAT on hotel accomodation, and for purchases of goods they can get a VAT refund at the airport (similar to Europe). Regarding hotel occupancy: Is 10% up in Arpril 2025 vs 2024 - https://www.indec.gob.ar/uploads/informesdeprensa/eoh_06_25409875AA47.pdf Regarding...

How dare these Argentines... spending one's own money in foreign countries is a privilage only for European and North American "expats" who think they have the right to tell Argentines how they should be spending their money... persumably in the snow covered brackish beaches of Miramar...

"In short, the Argentine economy enters July with a considerable improvement in some of its macroeconomic indicators (Public Spending; Inflation; Exchange Rate; International Reserves), but with other indicators that are generating more doubts than certainties (Economic Activity; Consumption...

Little more than a headline.. no information given about the closures (e.g. what is the source of the raw data, how it compares to previous years, how many companies closed were just "paper" companies and how many were actually trading, or what impact on employment or poverty it has or does not...

Argentina is one of the best places to be, out of range of Khamanei's rockets or those of other authoritarian and ideological despots like Kim. What I don't understand is why Iran still has an embassy here in Buenos Aires and have not long since been declared persona non-grata and asked to...

Laugh of the week… didn’t her era (4 years as first lady, 8 years as president 4 years as vice while and 4 years as leader of the opposition somewhere in between) directly lead to and culminate in the current “crisis” of Milei that her supporters are bemoaning today as the worst crisis to have...

Argentina's third least popular and most disliked politician (after Alberto Fernandez and her own son, Maximo) and thus feared politician running in an election... a gift to Milei and LLA whether or not she wins or loses, however much voters may dislike Milei a great many would simply see him as...

Only if you have already applied for citizenship. The new DNU clearly states that if an applicant spends a single day abroad, the two year period starts all over again. So not even short trips are allowed if an applicant wants citizenship with two years of residency. “ARTÍCULO 2°.- Son...

This is the one point I find utterly devoid of common sense. It means only “poor” migrants are likely to naturalize - those that have neither the means nor the need to travel, which seems contradictory to the argument of the government to attract talented migrants. Almost every other country on...

"Attacks" the right to strike to some by protecting the right to movement and work of others... ? Pretty similar to the minimum service rules that exist in most if not all European social-democracies, including strike prone countries like France, Spain and Italy.

And with that fades the chance for moderate politics in Argentina for the foreseeable future. Argentine voters will keep going further rightward by choice or necessity simply to avoid going backward to a past that the vast majority continue to reject as a fundamental principle. IMO PRO (and...