The president-elect had said he would withdraw Argentina’s ambassador to Nicaragua

The lawyer and UCR member was Patricia Bullrich’s vice presidential candidate for Juntos por el Cambio

A nonbinding five-question referendum over the disputed oil-rich jungle region of Esequibo was held on Sunday

With a planned drastic reduction in Argentina’s number of ministries, the president-elect has named most of the new administration’s key players — with some glaring exceptions

Martín Menem, a LLA deputy-elect from La Rioja, will be third in the presidential line of succession after the VP and the provisional Senate leader

Rodolfo Barra was previously a key man in Carlos Menem’s administration in the 1990s

Declassified documents reveal he played an integral role in empowering the junta, even against the wishes of his own government

The court did not expressly forbid Venezuela from going ahead with a referendum on Sunday over its rights to the region

Early projections estimate there was a spike after the run-off and foresee a return to a double-digit rate