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Tras la muerte del portavoz de Hamás, Abu Obeida, se agrava la situación humanitaria dentro del territorio, atendida por organizaciones internacionales. Según el Ministerio de Salud gazatí, las víctimas ascienden a 63.557 y 160.660 heridos desde el 7 de octubre de 2023. "Hoy, la situación es inconcebible, la vida se ha convertido en un infierno para la población palestina. Hay un bloqueo total de la ayuda humanitaria, eso hace que lleguen pocos insumos médicos, de alimentación, de combustible", dijo en Cara o Ceca Carolina Heidenhain, directora de Comunicación de Médicos Sin Fronteras Latinoamérica. "Al igual que otras organizaciones, venimos denunciando la manera militarizada con la que distribuyen los recursos. Hay personas heridas y asesinadas por ir a buscar comida. Alrededor de 11.000 personas fueron afectadas", agregó. "No hay ningún hospital que esté operando completamente. Todos funcionan de manera parcial porque están afectados por los ataques. No hay respeto al derecho a la protección humanitaria. Tuvimos que evacuar más de 18 equipos de ayuda y perdimos a 12 colegas", cerró. El Banco Central argentino sube los encajes bancarios para contener el dólar en la antesala electoral. El equipo económico apunta a conseguir que el dólar no sufra sobresaltos en su valor hasta las elecciones legislativas en la estratégica provincia de Buenos Aires, el 7 de septiembre. Desde el 1 de septiembre entra en vigencia la suba de encajes al 53,5% para los bancos, una jugada para "blindar" el tipo de cambio. "En un hipotético caso de derrota, el Gobierno argentino analizará por cuántos puntos pierde para tomar las medidas, que muchas se pensaban que serían después de las elecciones [nacionales] de octubre", comentó en Cara o Ceca Miguel Ponce, economista. "Puede haber una devaluación, pero no se sabe cuándo ni de cuánto, va a depender del acuerdo con el Fondo Monetario Internacional", cerró.

The opposition unlocked the investigative commission of the alleged cryptocurrency scam case $LIBRA involving President Javier Milei and appointed National Deputy Maximiliano Ferraro of the Civic Coalition to chair it. "The ultimate goal of this commission is to develop a report saying whether or not crimes were committed by any official. From there, it would go to the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies and they will decide if it is necessary to initiate an impeachment trial," said Maximiliano Firtman, journalist and programmer, specialist in the subject, in Cara o Ceca. "Neither Javier Milei nor those closest to him technically did this project; that is Hayden Davis' responsibility. But, in a certain sense, they would be necessary participants because they were the ones who disseminated it," he added. "What is being investigated is the movement of funds from the alleged scam. There, payments appear with Hayden Davis' and Mauricio Novelli's [Argentine trader and accused] virtual wallet. There are indications that Davis sent money to Novelli," he concluded. Nigel Farage proposes anti-immigration plan in the United Kingdom. The proposal of the leader of the Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, includes the immediate detention and deportation of any asylum seeker who arrives in boats or remains in the country without official documentation. "The United Kingdom has a long history of supporting multiculturalism, but there are different visions of society: one part that supports diversity and another, with a traditional English view, does not agree so much. These proposals of Farage ignite the spark in the white Anglo-Saxon citizen who reaffirms the problem that exists in immigration," said Federico Vaccarezza, member of the Commission of Studies of the North Atlantic of the Argentine Network of Professionals for Foreign Policy (RedAPPE), in Cara o Ceca. "It is difficult for [Prime Minister] Keir Starmer, because his party has always supported English customs. But society is demanding something else. After 14 years of conservative government, the United Kingdom stopped growing economically, plateaued and Starmer is not able to solve it," he added.

US added 25% extra as punishment for buying oil from Russia. The measure compromises the Asian country's exports worth 48.2 billion dollars and further strains the relationship between the American president and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "This can hit India very hard because its competitors have received lower tariffs, for example in the textile area. It will have to diversify its export basket so that the effect is not so harsh," said Lía Rodríguez de la Vega, international analyst and deputy director of the Committee on Asian Affairs of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), in Cara o Ceca. "India and China are the main buyers of oil from Russia. But since the US cannot counteract China's attitude, it goes against a strategic partner like India. It is the way Trump finds to penalize this," he added. "In response, India suspended the purchase of planes and technological equipment from the US. In any case, Modi intends to restore relations because that is a market that interests him, although without losing the sovereignty to decide what to do with his economy," he concluded. "It was an attempted assassination": Strong repudiation of the attack on Javier Milei at a campaign event The Argentine president was attacked with stones along with a delegation that included his sister Karina Milei, while he was carrying out a caravan in the town of Lomas de Zamora in the province of Buenos Aires, whose local legislative elections will be on September 7. "It is unfortunate that we continue with this type of intolerance. It cannot be that if you don't like the other's idea, you attack him. This was an attempted assassination, because the stone almost reached the president's head. And not only that, it could have ended in a tragedy because of the number of people who were there," said Sebastián Pascual, deputy of La Libertad Avanza in the province of Buenos Aires for the third electoral section, in Cara o Ceca. "The opposition's aggressions against Javier Milei are constant. And it's not just now: it's been going on for years, because of Kirchnerism," he concluded.

The Gaza war offers no respite. Following the Israeli attack against Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, where at least 20 people died, including five Palestinian journalists working for international media, Benjamin Netanyahu conceded that it was a "tragic accident." "The Israeli government prefers the death of its enemies over the freedom of its compatriots. It will not stop its offensive until it finishes its plans, but I believe that as of today even they do not know what they are," said Ezequiel Kopel, an Argentine journalist specializing in the Middle East, in Cara o Ceca.

National deputy of the new Coherence bloc and former member of La Libertad Avanza Lourdes Arrieta, visited Sputnik studios and highlighted her differences with the Government of Javier Milei. "I hope that [the president, Javier Milei] has nothing to do with it, that in some way his responsibility is not central and that he has no responsibility whatsoever," she said in Heads or Tails.

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Carlos Pagni's analysis on Odyssey Argentina aired on LN+ on August 25, 2025.

Amidst the scandal over the alleged corruption case in the Argentine National Disability Agency, Javier Milei's government denied the fact. The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, stated that he puts "his hands in the fire" for those involved, Karina Milei and Eduardo Menem. "When I told Javier Milei about the corruption, he stopped answering my messages and I was removed from my position. I already had a team assembled," said Viviana Aguirre, former official of the Comprehensive Medical Care Program (PAMI) in the city of La Plata, who denounced similar maneuvers in that organization, on Cara o Ceca.

Argentine Disability Agency raided over alleged bribes, following leaked audios where its now former head, Diego Spagnuolo, discusses alleged bribe requests and mentions the president's sister, Karina Milei, and her secretary, Eduardo “Lule” Menem. After this became known, the Government dismissed Spagnuolo. "It had already been reported that ANDIS was illegally buying high-cost, low-incidence drugs from the [Swiss Argentine] laboratory, but now we see that behind this operation there were bribes," said Ariel Zak, an Argentine journalist specializing in judicial issues, on Cara o Ceca.

Political scientist Pablo Touzon, co-founder of Panamá magazine, visited Sputnik studios, where he analyzed the Argentine political system and where the country is headed with the current leadership, in the midst of an election year, key for the Government of Javier Milei. "Kirchnerism today is an expression mostly of the province of Buenos Aires and a little of the City of Buenos Aires. The threat it represented over its rivals at the federal level has been minimized to the extreme. It only has strength in Buenos Aires territory and could only generate electoral polarization there," the analyst said in Heads or Tails.

Argentine opposition lawmakers achieved quorum to challenge presidential vetoes of pension increase and disability emergency declaration, measures Milei rejects for affecting fiscal balance. "It's an important day for the country. Many politicians cross electoral issues with parliamentary ones, and it shouldn't be like that. Congress will be a cauldron in the next two months," said Gabriel Chumpitaz, national deputy for the Futuro y Libertad bloc, which supports the official position, in Cara o ceca. "The pension system is one of the most important issues, not only from the human factor, but also for what it implies administratively: it has more than 50% of the total public spending budget. Argentina must carry out labor and tax reform so that the businessman or merchant can more easily bring employees into the formal system," he added. "Regarding the disability emergency law, it is necessary to audit the system to determine the abuse in aid. Based on that information, I would increase the budgets to benefit the real cases and take them away from those who do not need them. You cannot go from 99,000 disability pensions or subsidies to one million in four years," he concluded. Lula diversifies its international trade: "Brazil's exports to China increased 15% in one month." Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva seeks to face Donald Trump's tariff advance through the Sovereign Brazil plan, which will allocate more than 5.5 billion dollars in credit lines to protect national industry, and with the expansion of markets for its exports. "They are credits at very low rates. One of Lula's objectives is to find new markets to reduce the weight that the US has in Brazilian exports," said Eleonora Gosman, a journalist from Brazil, in Cara o ceca. "Brazil's exports to China increased 15% in one month. There was a very important collection of dollars. Now we have to wait for these measures to give results. However, Lula continues negotiating with other countries, he wants to resume the Mercosur-EU agreement," he added.

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Peronism finally achieved unity and presented a single list for national deputies and senators in the upcoming Argentine legislative elections in October. In 'Heads or Tails' we spoke with Juan Carlos Molina, a priest who was close to Pope Francis and is the first candidate for Fuerza Patria in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. "I am the point of unity of Peronism. Also, Santa Cruz is a complex province and new faces were requested. I have been working for more than 20 years with children with addiction and economic problems, not only here, but also in other parts such as in Haiti," he said. "We have to do a mea culpa to understand what happened so that [Javier] Milei won the elections in 2023. We are responsible for the policies we proposed not representing society," he added. "When we were in Government we did not do what we promised in the campaign. Instead, Milei does. We stopped being credible to the people," he concluded. **Concern in Spain over out-of-control forest fires** The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, visited areas affected by the fire and raised again the need to reach "a State pact against the climate emergency". So far there are more than 40 active fires and more than 150,000 hectares have been burned. Four fatalities have been counted to date. "We still have many fronts to put out. It has been the longest heat wave in history. It was not something predictable. There have been many imprudences and intentional fires," said Domingo Molina, Doctor of Forestry Engineering from Spain, in Heads or Tails. "We have received aerial resources from France, Italy and Germany because there are too many fires. International cooperation has worked, but the Government was slow to activate it. It should be more alert," he continued.

Carlos Pagni's analysis on Odisea Argentina aired on LN+ on August 18, 2025.

Alaska registró el encuentro histórico entre Rusia y EEUU. Desde Argentina, Cara o Ceca analizó la reunión entre Donald Trump y Vladimir Putin a través de la mirada de especialistas. “Las imágenes de este encuentro entrarán en la historia. El 20% de los rusos cree que va haber avances en cuanto a relaciones bilaterales Rusia-Estados Unidos y un 40% tiene expectativas de que se va a llegar a un arreglo del conflicto ucraniano”, dijo Victor Ternovsky, corresponsal de Sputnik desde Moscú.

El portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, definió la reunión de los líderes del viernes 15 en Alaska para abordar el conflicto de Ucrania, destacando el "enfoque inusual" del presidente estadounidense. Alberto Hutschenreuter consideró auspiciosa la reunión debido al deterioro previo a febrero de 2022, siendo ambos actores estratégicos. Ucrania presiente observaciones sobre el conflicto. Europa debió disuadir a Kiev de la OTAN antes del 24 de febrero de 2022; ahora la Unión Europea está al margen ante un cese al fuego. Somos Buenos Aires busca un centro entre La Libertad Avanza y el kirchnerismo. Julio Zamora, intendente de Tigre, será candidato a senador por Somos Buenos Aires, abandonando el peronismo por falta de democracia en la elección de liderazgo y consolidación de referentes de la derrota de 2023. Este espacio rechaza tanto el mercado absoluto de Milei como la omnipresencia estatal kirchnerista.

Europa resiste reunión Putin-Trump conflicto Ucrania. Canciller alemán Friedrich Merz impulsó reunión virtual Trump, líderes Unión Europea, Reino Unido, Ucrania, OTAN, insistiendo Zelenski participe negociaciones. Encuentro mandatarios generando pánico potencias belicistas, grupos corporativos detrás, victoria rusa inaceptable amenaza poder mundo, Europa, dijo Adrían Zelaia, analista geopolítico europeo, presidente consultora Ekai Group.

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The New York Court of Appeals must decide whether to uphold the suspension of Judge Loretta Preska's order, which obliges the Argentine State to hand over 51% of the shares of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) due to irregularities in its expropriation. "What will be determined is whether the judge's order has to be executed or if it remains suspended until an alternative solution is found. Meanwhile, there are two other hearings left, one in September and another in October, to resolve other issues such as the resolution of compensation to the plaintiffs," said Felix Lonigro, a constitutional lawyer, on Cara o Ceca. "If it is decided that Argentina has to hand over the shares, the alternative left is to go to the US Court so that Justice grants another suspensive term," he added. In 2012, the Argentine State expropriated 51% of the shares of YPF. The Burford Capital fund bought the rights of minority shareholders and sued the Argentine State. "It is very difficult for the delivery of shares to happen because, in the first place, the Argentine Congress has to approve it," he stated. Trump Deploys National Guard in Washington This is the second time since his return to power that Donald Trump has resorted to this police force, after having done so in Los Angeles to contain pro-immigrant protests. "The National Guard has a constitutionally fixed time to act and is subject to the declaration of emergency. It will surely extend up to 90 days, but not much more; it will not solve the problem of insecurity," said Erick Fajardo, a political consultant from the US, from the vicinity of Washington DC, on Cara o Ceca.

The Argentine opposition reacted to Javier Milei's national address, where he defended the vetoes of the disability emergency and pension increase laws and threatened to fine legislators who threaten fiscal balance. "Milei speaks to an increasingly small segment of Argentina. The elderly, families of people with disabilities, and public university students are not being taken into account," said Germán Martínez, head of the Unión por la Patria bloc in Deputies, on Cara o Ceca. "When an Executive does not speak to Argentines and only looks at its own navel, the political representation of that Government breaks down," he said. "Milei is constantly creating problems for the daily lives of Argentines, and we want to solve that, to the point that in Congress we are making room for a debate that should have taken place when the Budget law for this year was discussed. As that law did not pass, we have to address the issues one by one," he said. Putin and Trump will meet in Alaska US President Donald Trump confirmed that he will hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on August 15 to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. "Expectations must be moderated. The summit has been planned for a long time. When they meet, they will not only discuss the closing of the conflict in Ukraine, but also issues of the global scenario," said Guillermo Caviasca, historian and professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), on Cara o Ceca.