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Mateo Moreno

Argentina's Peso Breaks 1,500 as Milei's Government Escalates Its War on Journalists

This photo illustration shows a woman holding Argentine Pesos banknotes after withdrawing money from an ATM in Buenos Aires, on May 15, 2026. (Credit: Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP via Getty Images)

Argentina's currency crossed a threshold that had held for the entire post-convertibility era, and Buenos Aires' economic chief spent the same news cycle demanding a law to prosecute the journalists chronicling it.

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