Heat Waves Push El Salvador’s Power Demand to Record Levels

Official first-quarter 2026 data shows that the country’s highest electricity use lined up with extreme heat, especially during a 12-day March heat wave that put the national grid under heavy pressure.

Vaca Muerta Has Three Ruthless Winners, and They Are Rewriting Argentina’s Energy Power Map

YPF crushes on scale, Vista dominates on profitability, and Pampa surges as the most aggressive growth story in Argentina’s shale frontier

PRO Signals a 2027 Power Bid and Exposes the Vanity Crisis Weakening Argentina’s Opposition

Ignacio Torres openly framed the PRO governors as the nucleus of a real alternative to Javier Milei, while warning that egos, submission, and internal pettiness are sabotaging the opposition’s chance to reclaim power.

Argentine Commerce Chamber Urges ARCA to Halt Seizures Against Struggling Small Businesses

The business group says freezing payments owed to crisis-hit companies is poorly timed and could deepen financial distress across the SME sector.

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A Falklands Veteran’s Radical Formula Exposes Why Argentina’s Maximalism Has Failed

Shared sovereignty, island autonomy, and U.S. mediation are presented here as the only brutally realistic path out of a deadlocked dispute poisoned by war memory, diplomatic paralysis, and mutual distrust.

Argentina’s Wage Expectations Are Crumbling Under Inflation and Exposing a Brutal Labor Market Reality

Job seekers are lowering pay demands as inflation outpaces salary expectations, revealing weaker bargaining power, sharper hierarchy gaps, and a hiring market increasingly tilted toward employers

Argentina’s Government Downplays Macri’s Return While Keeping PRO Alliance Options Open

The Milei administration sees Mauricio Macri’s renewed visibility as political pressure rather than a true presidential comeback, but it is still leaving the door open to electoral deals with parts of the PRO outside Buenos Aires City.

ANSES: How Much Retirees Will Receive in June 2026 With the Bonus and Midyear Extra Pay Included

June 2026 brings a new inflation-based increase for pensions and benefits, with the final amount depending on each category, plus the possible bonus and the first half of the annual extra salary.

Pichetto Calls for a Broad National Opposition Front Against Milei

The federal lawmaker says the opposition must regroup, the Peronist movement must face its own mistakes, and the cost of austerity is falling hardest on retirees.

Argentine Stocks Sink to a Two-Month Low as Country Risk Climbs Above 500

Local equities and sovereign bonds closed the week in negative territory, even as Wall Street hovered near record highs, while moderating inflation and central bank dollar purchases offered only limited support.

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