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Unfounded claims that Israeli backpackers at Onda Azul hostel in southern Argentina are undercover soldiers burning forests to build a 'second Israel' have upended the lives of its owners and are affecting the region's few Jews

This marks the first time in its history that IHRA is crossing the equator; it is also the first time a South American country has taken on this responsibility.

A Buenos Aires court instructed Argentina's telecom agency ENACOM to block Polymarket nationwide, citing unauthorized gambling concerns. A court in Argentina has ordered a nationwide block of the major crypto-based prediction market platform Polymarket over unauthorized gambling. Argentina’s national communications and media regulator, Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (ENACOM), received a court order to block access to the Polymarket website and its variants across the country, according to a ruling dated March 11. The order was issued by the Buenos Aires Court of First Instance in Criminal, Contravention and Minor Offenses No. 31, which is investigating Polymarket under Argentina’s Criminal Code for allegedly offering gambling services without authorization. Read more

The Pix payment system is credited with driving crypto adoption in Argentina, according to a report from the Lemon crypto application. Banco Central do Brasil said on Friday that it expanded its Pix digital payments system to allow Brazilians living in Argentina to access the service to pay for goods, services and send payments in both countries. The central bank’s instant payments platform is accepted by major crypto platforms and service providers operating in Brazil for fiat onramping, including the Lemon crypto application, Binance Pay, Crypto.Com, the Mercado Bitcoin exchange and the Kraken crypto exchange. Argentina ranks as the number one country for crypto adoption per capita in LATAM, while Brazil ranks as number one in terms of total crypto value received, according to Lemon’s State of the Crypto Industry in Latin America 2025 report. Read more

Coinbase has halted peso-based USDC on- and off-ramps in Argentina less than a year after launch, citing a review of local operations while keeping crypto trading fully active. Crypto exchange Coinbase has paused its local fiat operations in Argentina less than a year after formally entering the market, scaling back peso-based services while keeping its crypto functionality. According to a report by Forbes Argentina, Coinbase informed users that it is temporarily stepping back from maintaining local services following a review of its operations. The company described the move as a “deliberate pause” aimed at reassessing its approach and returning with a more sustainable product offering. The change primarily affects fiat rails. From Jan. 31, 2026, users will no longer be able to buy or sell USDC (USDC) using Argentine pesos (ARS) or withdraw funds to local bank accounts. Coinbase told users they have a 30-day window to complete peso-based USDC transactions and withdrawals before the cutoff date. Read more

Argentina’s central bank is reportedly drafting new rules to allow banks to offer customers digital asset-related services as early as April 2026.

Argentina’s central bank is reportedly considering whether to allow traditional financial institutions to offer crypto services, marking the potential lifting of a ban. Argentina is considering allowing local financial institutions to engage more directly with cryptocurrencies in a move that would mark a significant shift from its restrictive stance, according to local media report. According to a Friday report by local news outlet La Nacion, Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), Argentina’s central bank, is considering allowing traditional banks to trade cryptocurrencies. The story cited “sources close to the organization.” Cointelegraph has not independently verified those claims. The BCRA stepped in to ban financial institutions from offering crypto trading just days after two of the country’s largest banks signaled they were opening up to digital assets in May 2022. The BCRA said that such initiatives posed risks to users and “to the financial system as a whole.” Read more

Argentinian president Javier Milei ordered the declassification of a series of 1850 documents about Nazis and their activities in Argentina, revealing Mengele's life in Buenos Aires.

Argentina’s order against Hayden Davis marks the latest move in the $250 million Libra fraud probe now spanning courts in Buenos Aires and New York. Argentina’s federal judiciary ordered a freeze of assets belonging to US promoter Hayden Davis and two alleged intermediaries tied to the collapsed Libra token, deepening an investigation into one of Latin America’s biggest crypto scandals. The order, issued by Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, reportedly covers digital wallets, bank accounts and real-estate assets of Davis, Argentine operator Orlando Rodolfo Mellino and Colombian trader Favio Camilo Rodríguez Blanco. Prosecutors said the asset freeze was necessary to prevent any transfer of assets that could represent the proceeds of fraud, as investigators work to trace a money trail estimated to be $100 million to $120 million.  Read more

Argentina’s Milei wins decisive victory

Parliamentary elections are taking place in Argentina today.

If you’ve heard this story before, you’re not alone. Argentina is particularly adept at leaping from crisis to crisis. A collapsing Argentine peso, desperate negotiations in Washington, and a high-profile U.S. rescue are all features once again. But this time, with libertarian President Javier Milei at the helm, the script was supposed to change. He […] The post How the U.S. bailout could bring the end to Argentina’s ‘libertarian utopia’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Nuclearelectrica, operator of Romania’s only nuclear power plant, Cernavoda, said its subsidiary, the Feldioara Uranium Concentrate Processing Plant (FPCU), has won an international tender to supply nuclear fuel in the form of uranium dioxide (UO2) to Argentina, a first for the Romanian nuclear industry.

While crypto focuses on US and EU markets, real adoption is happening in Argentina, Nigeria and the Philippines, where digital assets solve survival needs. Opinion by: Maksym Sakharov, group CEO at WeFi The crypto industry has been focused on the same markets: the United States and the European Union. The conversation has mainly concerned regulatory clarity, speculative gains and institutional access, whether Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms or Wall Street’s exchange-traded fund issuers.  Unfortunately, this fixation is blinding much of the industry to a more pressing reality, where the future of crypto adoption isn’t in New York, London or Brussels, but rather in Lagos, Buenos Aires and Manila. Read more

US steps in with a lifeline as Argentina battles peso turmoil, investor flight and President Javier Milei’s waning credibility. Crypto adoption surges. As Argentina grapples with soaring inflation and a run on the peso that has battered domestic asset prices, the United States has stepped in with the promise of a financial lifeline — though Bitcoin proponents remain skeptical it will make a difference. The peso tumbled roughly 4.5% last week as investors questioned President Javier Milei’s ability to deliver fiscal and structural reforms following his party’s poor showing in Buenos Aires provincial elections earlier this month. The sell-off was compounded by a corruption investigation involving a family member of Milei, deepening political uncertainty. Investor unease triggered heavy outflows from Argentine markets. The central bank was forced to spend about $1.1 billion over three days to defend the peso — a hefty sum given that the country holds only about $20 billion in liquid foreign reserves, according t...

Saifedean Ammous warned Argentina’s high-yield bond strategy is unsustainable, calling it a “Ponzi” that could push investors toward Bitcoin as the peso crumbles. Economist and author of “The Bitcoin Standard,” Saifedean Ammous, warned that Argentina’s financial system is on the brink of collapse, calling President Javier Milei’s economic program a “debt and inflation Ponzi” propped up by unsustainable bond yields and money printing. In a post on X, Ammous argued that Argentina’s government has created a financial system where bond speculation is the only path to financial security. “The only concrete achievement of his administration so far is that it destroyed the currency and created a shitcoin casino,” he said. At the center of the crisis is what locals call “la bicicleta financiera,” a high-yield carry trade where investors buy short-term government bonds that offer interest rates exceeding the pace of peso devaluation. According to Ammous, this setup, which has become the country’s most lucrative indust...

Reports that Argentine President Javier Milei's has invited the Israeli prime minister to Buenos Aires were met with condemnation from influential human rights groups and multiple petitions calling to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza, if he visits Argentina

Argentina’s opposition parties have revived a stalled investigation into President Javier Milei’s role in the LIBRA scandal, seizing on new corruption allegations that have rattled the government just weeks before October’s elections. The commission, first created in April but largely paralyzed by bureaucratic and congressional hurdles, was reactivated on Aug. 28 after leaked recordings implicated […] The post Argentina’s opposition party votes to reopen investigation into President Milei over LIBRA scandal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

USDT prices have reportedly risen in Argentina as demand for US dollars rises in the Latin American nation. The post USDT Prices Surge in Argentina as Dollar Demand Spikes appeared first on Cryptonews.

Until now, documentation related to the activities of Nazi leaders in Argentina could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the National Archives.