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Two months before Argentina's national legislative elections, Peronism shapes its possible representatives on the lists. In 'Heads or Tails', we speak with former Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, who referred to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's conviction.

Deceased workers trapped underground after a magnitude 4.2 tremor on Thursday 31st in central Chile destroyed part of the El Teniente mine, the world's largest copper deposit. "There are nine injured workers in addition to the six deceased. Three days of national mourning were decreed as a result of this situation," said Chilean journalist Lucas Aguayo on Cara o Ceca. "Many relatives will not be able to receive the bodies of the victims because they are very damaged and they have to carry out the corresponding expert reports to deliver them," he added. "It has been pointed out that the workers were not heard. There were previous complaints about the shelters inside the mine where the miners can go in these cases. They said they were closed," he concluded. The Argentine Government again resorted to the veto to defend fiscal balance. The Javier Milei Administration vetoed laws benefiting retirees and the disabled recently approved by Congress: the increase in assets, the restoration of the pension moratorium, and the declaration of emergency in disability. The official justification is based on the need to maintain fiscal balance. "There is no money, and the only way to make Argentina great again is with effort and honesty," the Government said in a statement. "For the opposition, the veto represents an act of cruelty, while for the Government it is a project of 'fiscal degenerates'. This discussion reinforces the concepts that there is a path towards provincial and national elections," said Argentine political scientist Gustavo Marangoni on Cara o Ceca. "Seniors feel attacked by [Javier] Milei's policy, between the freezing of the 70,000 pesos [a bonus of 55 dollars that is granted monthly and is not indexed] and the loss of real capacity in pensions, they generate a reason to vote against," he added.

President Javier Milei is expected to veto the reinstatement of the retirement moratorium, the increase in benefits, and the declaration of a disability emergency on August 4, the last day stipulated to advance with the measure. Casa Rosada seeks to ensure that Congress does not annul this decision. "The Government's view of ordering public accounts is the way forward. We are not going to support any law that threatens its economic plan, which is ultimately the plan of Argentines," said Martín Maquieyra, national deputy of the Republican Proposal (PRO), in Cara o Ceca. "There is a political intention of the opposition, more than a genuine intention, to solve the problem of retirees. Alberto Fernandez's last formula [president between 2019 and 2024] lowered pensions by 40% in real terms. His position now is curious. We will not solve the great problem they have with this law alone," he added. "The Government's view of ordering public accounts is the way forward. A formula is required for the country to grow and to have funds and retirement contributions. That is not going to happen overnight," he concluded. The technician who rebuilt the Argentine national team: Who was César Luis Menotti for national football? Ezequiel Fernández Moores, sports journalist, visited the Sputnik studios and spoke about his new book "Menotti. The First: History of the coach who rebuilt the National Team", the biography of the world champion coach in 1978. "I portrayed the life of Menotti because he managed to make the Argentine national team world champion in the midst of the military dictatorship. He was a guy who already talked about politics. In 1973 he had signed a declaration to ask for the return of Perón," who had been exiled in Spain since 1955, he explained. In addition, he highlighted the characteristics of the local league. "What Argentine football has is that it is not hegemonic like in North America or Europe. Here it is more competitive, there is more uncertainty and it makes it a spectacle."

The Argentine government seeks to contain the dollar in the electoral prelude and to that end raised the interest rate to 65% annually in pesos so that investors renew their commitments: "We know that the Government's main objective is to lower inflation. Therefore, the big problem it may have with this dollar increase is that it impacts the acceleration of prices," said Claudio Caprarulo, economist, on Heads or Tails.

Javier Milei gains allies in Congress before the legislative elections. Deputies from the Radical Civic Union, distanced from the party due to their closeness to the Government, formalized an inter-bloc with La Libertad Avanza. "We consolidate an inter-bloc to work together legislatively and have access to executive officials who provide us with information about the direction of the Government," Pablo Cervi, one of the deputies in the new alliance, said in Cara o Ceca.

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In the height of Argentina's winter tourist season, Bariloche stands out as a major destination, avoiding the general decline in influx and the increased departure of Argentinians due to the exchange rate. "The number of foreigners coming is impressive. There's 85% occupancy here and between 29 and 30 daily flights. It increased further with the winter vacation season in the province of Buenos Aires. We believe the season will last until September," said the mayor of Bariloche, Walter Cortes, in Cara o Ceca.

Carlos Pagni's analysis on Argentine Odyssey aired on LN+ on July 28, 2025.

Javier Milei will visit the traditional annual Exhibition of the Argentine Rural Society amid demands from the countryside for the level of export duties. "With withholdings on the main crops, the Government collects between 7.5 and 9 billion dollars, money it uses for the Central Bank's reserves. It is a lot of money that they are claiming, but it has been happening since 2002. To eliminate the tax you need a tax reform and for it to be sustained by law," said Leonardo Sarquis, former Minister of Agroindustry of the province of Buenos Aires and director of the consulting firm CONFIagro, on Cara o Ceca.

El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, valoró positivamente la tercera ronda de negociaciones de paz con Ucrania, especialmente en temas humanitarios. Sin embargo, aseguró que las Fuerzas Armadas rusas tomarán medidas para "organizar la defensa antiaérea y minimizar los riesgos" ante los ataques que continúa recibiendo por parte de Kiev. "Si bien hubo un nuevo acuerdo de intercambio de prisioneros, no hubo más avances que eso. Esto indica que Zelenski y los globalistas se ven en una situación de debilidad, donde están perdiendo iniciativas, sobre todo ante la victoria de [Donald] Trump en EEUU y el fortalecimiento de los BRICS", dijo en Cara o Ceca Sebastián Schulz, sociólogo y analista internacional de la Universidad de La Plata en Argentina.

In an exclusive dialogue with 'Heads or Tails', the Bolivian president, Luis Arce, reiterated his call for unity of the left for the August 17 elections. With the title "Before it's too late: unity now or defeat tomorrow", he recalled the call of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, disappeared by the dictatorship in 1980, and warned of its risks. — What do you expect from this call for unity of the left in Bolivia and what risks do you consider are run if it is not achieved? — First, what we hope is that all the left-wing forces that are presenting themselves in the elections today, reflect together to be able to face a right that feels victorious, but that does not have the total support of the population. None of the candidates is beyond 20%, or around 20%, depending on the taste and the polls that are being developed in my country. But we also see more and more that there is a greater number of undecided voters who are forming as they listen to the government programs of the right-wing candidates, the number of undecided voters is also increasing, people who are going to vote blank. Therefore, there is a great opportunity for the left to rethink itself in order to face these elections. Our motive is not only an electoral issue, what we are proposing also involves a programmatic unity, at least a minimum program, principles in which all the men of the left in our Bolivia will coincide and be able to join efforts to face a right that, I repeat, feels like a winner, despite the fact that we already know the approaches, they are the old neoliberal approaches. I have made the call precisely by listening to many voices within our own left that are clamoring for unity. We have echoed those impressions that there was a need for unity and we have been pushing for unity since December 18, where we have raised the unity of the left and where unfortunately we have not had an echo. We have taken many actions to demonstrate that the path is unity for the entire left in order to defeat a right that feels like a winner. Therefore, many things are at risk and that is what we have to realize here. Our process of change is at risk, all the social policies that have been applied are at risk, employment is at risk and the risk is to return to the old indicators of poverty and exclusion that existed in our country. Even our own Plurinational State is at risk, because many of them are proposing a return to the Republic. In short, there are many things that unfortunately are at risk of everything that has been advanced. The most important thing of all this is that, observing what is happening in several countries of Latin America, the one who is going to suffer the consequences of all this is the Bolivian people. Therefore, we have made the call precisely to be able to form a bloc of lefts that will face these right-wing approaches, which we already know in the country. In Bolivia neoliberalism lasted 20 years. From 1985 to 2005 this old neoliberal model was in force that brought absolutely nothing good to the people. Perhaps for many of those who were managing the model, they have taken them out perhaps very well, because we as Bolivian people have suffered. Therefore, all that is at risk and that is why our vehement call so that all the left-wing forces can generate a bloc of unity that will face the Bolivian right in that way.

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Intense activity is expected in Istanbul this week with a third round of negotiations, possibly on July 23 or 24. "It is always positive to think that there may be a link between Ukraine and Russia. There is an important role for both the US and Turkey. So far, what has been achieved in these negotiations has been minimal, basically the exchange of prisoners and remains. Although for the Kremlin spokesman, it is very far from achieving another type of rapprochement," said Marcelo Montes, PhD in International Relations, on Cara o Ceca. "The least that can be expected from these approaches is a truce because several European countries are goading the extension of the war, they do not cease in their aid to Ukraine. Not only are they sending military weapons for it to survive this summer, but also the moral and discursive support that European leaders propagate to Kiev is added," he added. "Europe's position is hypocritical. The triangulation of Russian gas continues to exist thanks to the help of India and Turkey. They want to damage the Russian economy but they will never achieve it. Europe is being harmed, above all it is destroying the cultural and social relationship with Russia, it will cost a lot to restore it," he concluded. Rejection of Milei grew and exceeds 50% The Zuban-Córdoba consultancy conducted a survey that exposed an anti-Mileism of 53%. At the same time, in a polarized scenario, anti-Kirchnerism showed a negative image of 45%. "This latest report brought important data. We asked three fundamental questions assuming that 'Mileístas' already exist. 28.1% perceive themselves that way. It would be the hard core that the president has since the internal elections of 2023," said Sofia Chini, a political analyst associated with the Argentine consultancy Zuban-Córdoba, on Cara o Ceca. "Javier Milei had a large component of voters outside that hard core, who were anti-Kirchnerist. But today, with the problems, both with retirees and with the doctors of the Garrahan hospital, 52.8% would exercise a punishment vote in the national legislative elections, while 38% would reward him for his policies, especially in the face of the lack of a strong figure in the opposition," he added.

Carlos Pagni's analysis aired on LN+ on July 21, 2025.

Martin Becerra, secondary and university professor and Doctor of Information Sciences, visited Sputnik's studios to analyze the challenges of the Argentine educational system and how the advancement of artificial intelligence impacts the formative stages. "Children miss more classes for other reasons than due to strikes. The issue of free hours must be urgently resolved. Sometimes class is missed because there is no one to cover positions ceded by retirements or licenses. Private management schools solve it by making teachers precarious, but the public system must find strategies to solve it," he assured.

Before legislative lists close, conflicts escalate between the national ruling party and local leaders of Republican Proposal (PRO) over candidate selection differences, where Karina Milei, Secretary of the Presidency, seeks to impose her names. "We haven't reached an agreement. Mainly because La Libertad Avanza [LLA] in the territory doesn't have representatives who respect the popular will. People need authorities who defend our administration's projects. The ruling party relies heavily on its 'brand' or 'capital,' but their ideas are very far from what people need in the town," said Diego Reyes, mayor of the municipality of Puan, in Cara o Ceca. "I agree with many of the president's ideas, but LLA in our district has a different idea. I want my town to do well, and I know that adding libertarians won't work. In the last election, there was a significant split ticket. People chose Javier Milei as president, but me as mayor," he added. 31 years after the AMIA bombing in Argentina: "I would accept a trial in absentia if there were clear evidence." This July 18 marked the anniversary of the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in 1994, in which 85 people died and more than 300 were injured. "There is no doubt that these are two attacks. The one on the Israeli Embassy [March 17, 1992] and the AMIA, committed by a radical Islamist group, armed from the Triple Frontier. What is not clear is whether there was a state behind it or not," said Raúl "Tuny" Kollmann, an Argentine journalist specializing in the legal case, in Cara o Ceca. "The investigation of the AMIA case was always directed against Iran due to a geopolitical strategy rather than a conclusion of the evidence. Therefore, I would accept a trial in absentia if there were clear evidence. I have the feeling that they are going to end up putting together a trial whose sole objective will be to condemn Iran," he added.

Access to housing, transportation, and sustainability are problems that afflict the inhabitants of the world's large cities. Urban sociologist Fernando Bercovich visited Sputnik's studios and analyzed current problems in cities and challenges to overcome them. "Over time, the process of becoming a tenant grew. More and more people are renting housing. In the case of the City of Buenos Aires, in the last 20 years, the tenant population went from 20% to 40%. In a short time there will be more tenants than owners. It is urgent that there be public policies that address this issue," said Fernando Bercovich, Argentine urban sociologist, in dialogue with Cara o Ceca. "The State has to intervene with policies for tenants because many people will never be able to access housing. There has to be a comprehensive plan, like Mexico did, with the 'anti-gentrification' project, which addresses different aspects such as the regulation of temporary rentals and participatory urban planning," he added. Israel bombed Damascus and threatened a total offensive The attack, which was unleashed after the kidnapping of a Druze merchant by Sunni Bedouin tribes, occurred despite the express request of the United States to stop the bombings and respect the ceasefire agreed in the region. "The Government of Israel is the main battering ram of this reset attempt that the West seeks. That is why it is attacking different countries beyond Gaza," said Rubén Guzzetti, international analyst and member of the management team at the Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG), in Cara o Ceca. "Syria has been a secular country where all religions coexisted. But in December of last year, the West managed to overthrow the Government of Bashar Asad and dismember the country to plunge it into absolute chaos, as it did with Libya in 2011," he added.

The strategic Argentine province of Santa Fe began reforming its Constitution, enabling the reelection of its governor Maximiliano Pullaro. It is the only province that has not yet introduced changes to its Magna Carta since the reform of the National Constitution of 1994. "The Constitution has not been modified for 63 years. We have to adapt to the new needs of this time. The circumstances have changed, they are not the same as 40 years ago. We have to be very responsible," said Germana Figueroa Casas, constituent of Santa Fe and national deputy of the Republican Proposal bloc in Cara o Ceca.

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