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Ciara Nugent

Southern Cone correspondent

Ciara is the FT's Southern Cone correspondent, based in Buenos Aires, covering Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. She joined the FT in 2023 and previously covered climate change and Latin America for Time Magazine.
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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    How Argentina pulled off its latest IMF deal

    Fund to give unusually large upfront transfer to Argentina’s President Javier Milei

  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentina secures $20bn IMF deal by relaxing currency controls

    Fund to give unusually large upfront transfer to libertarian President Javier Milei

    IMF sign at its headquarters
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Global Economy
    Trump triggers race to offer US concessions before tariffs hit

    Nations prepare offers to Washington including weapons deals, dropping their own tariffs and moves against China

    Montage of a car, chicken, LNG ship, and a plane over a topographical background
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentina’s poverty rate falls as Milei tames inflation

    Libertarian president’s policies start to bear fruit although the poorest still struggle

    Person walks outside a store in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    OutlookArgentina
    Argentina’s quest for pizza glory

    Italians may be sceptical, but heavy, spongy pies from Buenos Aires are heading for international markets

    An Argentine pizza
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Argentine economy
    Argentina says it nears $20bn IMF loan deal

    Milei’s government says fund is finalising figure in announcement aimed at calming markets

    A man counts one thousand Argentine peso banknotes in Buenos Aires
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentines snap up foreign goods as Milei strengthens peso

    Chinese solar panels and Uruguayan butter arrive as president tackles inflation by easing import restrictions

    Women buy groceries at a supermarket in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US bars former president of Argentina from entering the country

    Secretary of state accuses Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of ‘significant corruption’

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Argentine politics
    Argentina’s Milei signs decree paving way for IMF loan deal

    Libertarian leader shields long-awaited agreement from potential defeat in opposition-dominated senate

    Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the legislative assembly in March
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Chile
    Chile reels after worst blackout in 15 years hits copper mines

    Government imposes curfew after more than 90% of country loses power in transmission failure

    A police officer controls traffic after a blackout in Chile on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    Javier Milei
    Argentina’s Milei to bypass senate to name supreme court judges

    Libertarian leader’s use of controversial clause threatens to spark fight with opposition

    Javier Milei stands in front of an American flag and waves
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Telecoms
    Milei pledges antitrust probe after Telefónica sells Argentina unit

    $1.25bn sale to firm part owned by Grupo Clarín is first big move by Spanish telecoms company’s new chair

    Telefónica’s Madrid HQ
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Javier Milei
    Milei wins senate votes despite memecoin scandal

    Libertarian secures electoral reform after his most difficult week since becoming Argentina’s president

    Elon Musk, centre, brandishes the chainsaw Javier Milei, right, gave him in Washington
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Javier Milei
    Memecoin scandal rocks Argentina’s Milei

    Opposition calls for president’s impeachment after he promoted a cryptocurrency that plunged in value

    Javier Milei
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Argentine politics
    Milei’s sister wields ‘guillotine’ against dissent in the Argentine state

    Dozens of exits from libertarian government include firings by Karina, the president’s chief of staff sibling

    Javier Milei with Karina
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    OutlookArgentina
    Why Argentina is back in love with the peso — for now

    Despite Javier Milei’s pledge to dollarise the economy, the national currency is having a resurgence

    Argentine pesos
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Argentina
    Milei’s quest to defuse Argentina’s currency control bomb

    Libertarian president aims to secure IMF deal to help prepare for end of fixed exchange rate

    Argentina’s President Javier Milei
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Argentine politics
    Milei to follow Trump’s lead and pull Argentina out of WHO

    Libertarian leader has embraced upheaval in international institutions triggered by US president

    Javier Milei
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Argentine politics
    Milei pins dream of privatising Argentine football on one club

    US investor’s pursuit of a stake in Estudiantes fuels push to overhaul non-profit model

    Montage of Juan Veron in his playing days for Estudiantes (2008), left, Javier Milei, and background Estudiantes fans at a match last year
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Chile
    Chile approves major pension reform after decade of deadlock

    Low payouts were one of the reasons protesters took to the streets in 2019

    A protester waves the Chilean flag as demonstrations continue against Chilean President Sebastian Piñera on December 6, 2019
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentina loses last-ditch US battle to block $300mn seizure

    Supreme Court declines to hear appeal, giving creditors a rare opportunity to access funds from overseas accounts

    A homeless man sleeps at Plaza de Mayo square in front of Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Argentina
    Milei eyes exit from Paris climate deal

    Argentine government explores proposal to follow US in quitting landmark agreement

    Argentina’s President Javier Milei speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23 2025
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    Argentine economy
    Milei extends bet on Argentina’s unorthodox currency policy

    Libertarian leader slows peso’s devaluation in attempt to stamp out inflation

    A customer counts Argentine peso bills at a supermarket in Buenos Aires
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Argentina
    Argentina pays bondholders $4.3bn in key test for Milei

    Largest payment since 2020 restructuring boosts bond prices but challenging repayments loom

    Javier Milei gestures by raising a clenched fist
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    News in-depthArgentine economy
    Milei’s next economic mission: affordable air fryers

    Libertarian leader scraps tariffs to break open Argentina’s protectionist economy, unnerving domestic industry

    Javier Milei stands with arms outstretched as he greets supporters
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