The International Monetary Fund disbursed on Tuesday the first installment of Argentina's new $20 billion bailout after President Javier Milei removed most of Argentina’s strict capital and currency controls.

Argentina’s trains and subways were disrupted, flights grounded, grain shipments interrupted, mail delivery halted and banks and some gas stations shuttered as unions held a general strike against the libertarian government of President Javier Milei.

The election in Argentina’s third-most-populous province of Santa Fe, with 2.8 million voters, will pick delegates to a convention set to reform the regional constitution, which has gone unchanged for