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Colombia Insurgency
De la Espriella's runoff win collapses both peace tracks and launches a Bukele-style military campaign against groups controlling half.
Argentina has been in political crisis since late 2023, when libertarian economist Javier Milei won the presidency on a promise to take a chainsaw to the state.
His government has devalued the peso, slashed subsidies, and gutted public payrolls under an IMF restructuring program, triggering general strikes by Peronist-aligned labor unions and recurring mass protests. The IMF and US Treasury enforce the fiscal framework. China waits in the wings as an alternative creditor, courting Argentina's ports and infrastructure. Argentina has defaulted on its debt nine times.
Whether Milei's shock therapy holds will decide if the cycle finally breaks.
The Argentine Federal Police's May 2025 forensic report is the sharpest direct legal threat yet to Milei's presidency, establishing pump-and-dump mechanics in the $LIBRA token launch, documenting coordinated communications among Milei, his sister, and senior advisors, and surfacing a $1.5 million clause tied to a single presidential tweet.
It matters because the civil war continues to tie down the main belligerents, pull in outside backers, and shape the security balance across Americas.
Weekly net escalation pressure, last 90 days
The forensic report and the lobbying bill are operating as paired escalation vectors: the former concentrates criminal exposure on Milei's inner circle while the latter attempts to preemptively suppress the civil.
Milei's governing model substitutes personal credibility and external validation for institutional depth, making it acutely vulnerable to simultaneous erosion on multiple fronts; falling approval, criminal exposure.
IMF program conditionality functions as a structural enforcement mechanism.
U.S. bilateral trade agreement embeds restrictive language on foreign infrastructure use.
Peter Thiel's Buenos Aires presence and direct engagement with Milei's economy and deregulation ministers functions as a U.S. tech-capital validation node.
China's BRI and infrastructure bid network, including halted Neuquén deep-space facility components and radio telescope antenna parts held at Buenos Aires.
The Kast-Milei bilateral axis, formalized by Kast's first foreign visit as Chilean president.
IMF and US Treasury as economic framework enforcers; China as alternative creditor bloc
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