News of Gustavo González

Gustavo González

Presidente y CEO de Editorial Perfil. En Twitter: @gonzalezenzona

'Noticias' cover, President Javier Milei.

Pressure on the press: from Videla to Milei

12-04-2024 17:20 Attacks by Javier Milei on the press in general, and at 'Noticias' and 'Perfil' in particular, are nothing new. Argentina’s President is using old methods to silence critics.

by Gustavo González

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Peronism’s identity crisis

06-05-2023 06:29 What is under discussion is much more than a candidacy. It is the search for a new leader who, on their own and without intermediaries, is competitive enough to assume power and unify Peronism.

by Gustavo González

The revolving door at the Economy Ministry.

OPINION

2022: the errors of the economists

29-12-2022 02:31 The time has come to do what economists find so uncomfortable and what I find so useful: the annual balance sheet of predictions

by Gustavo González

Analysis

A conviction that does not convict

08-12-2022 15:54 The millions who consider Cristina Fernández de Kirchner corrupt do not need a ruling to prove it. And for millions of others, she will never be guilty.

by Gustavo González

OPINION

The problem is not other people, but us

09-09-2022 10:48 Following the attack on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the only thing on which both sides agree is that the blame belongs to the discourse of hatred which the other side foment.

by Gustavo González

PERONIST POLITICS

Things are not going as Cristina planned

07-01-2022 22:41 Things have not been turning out as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner expected, starting with the electoral year.

by Gustavo González

BEHIND THE DIPLOMATIC CURTAIN

Secrets of Mr. Sullivan’s visit

11-08-2021 16:13 The White House’s top geopolitical advisor lunched at Olivos presidential residence last week, meeting ministers, businessmen and President Alberto Fernández. Vaccines, development and debt were among a broad range of conversation topics.

by Gustavo González

POLITICS

Hawks against the government – and Vidal

22-05-2021 09:29 Infighting is growing among the opposition while Patricia Bullrich’s hardline sector gets stronger. But the government has just handed them a gift-wrapped motive for unity: a clash with the farming sector over the beef export ban.

by Gustavo González

CARLOS MENEM (1930-2021)

The first post-modern president

20-02-2021 07:56 Menem was the emblem of Argentina’s eternal aspiration to be a First World cosmopolitan society.

by Gustavo González

PERONIST LOYALTY DAY

Peronistas vs Camporistas

17-10-2020 08:44 Ahead of today’s historic 75th Peronist Loyalty Day, the movement’s various strands seem more concerned with jostling for space than making the most of a historic opportunity to overcome polarisation.

by Gustavo González

President Mauricio Macri is pictured as he inaugurates the Ayolas-Ituzaigo border crossing across the Parana River through the Yacyreta hydroelectric dam, on August 19, 2019 in Ayolas, Paraguay.

Bolivian Election Crisis

Why Macri should condemn the military intervention in Bolivia

12-11-2019 23:00 A critique of Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie's statement about the intervention of Armed Forces in Bolivia – and a call for President Macri to rectify a grave error.

by Gustavo González

ELECTORAL RACE

Macri-Pichetto: the real story behind the scenes

22-06-2019 08:03 There was a previous bond uniting the destinies of Macri and Pichetto. In that Pink House meeting in which I heard about this issue for the first time, I asked what might be Durán Barba’s opinion when he returned from a trip abroad.

by Gustavo González

ELECTIONS 2019: CAMPAIGN WATCH

Why Mauricio Macri could win the election

06-04-2019 07:58 Opinion polls show the president conserving positive ratings of over 30 percent, in the midst of these gloomy months, and that indicates that there is an electorate out there which evidently does not vote just with their pockets.

by Gustavo González