News of Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Fontevecchia

Cofundador de Editorial Perfil - CEO de Perfil Network.

Is Donald Trump good for Argentina?

Yesterday 07:40 Trump’s new transactional and short-term economic order overlaps with a new gangster-style and hyper-materialistic political order.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Argentine veteran reporter, radio presenter and host Marcelo Longobardi.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Marcelo Longobardi: ‘Milei’s conduct with journalists identical to Kirchners’

08-03-2025 06:00 Veteran reporter, radio presenter and host Marcelo Longobardi – whose incisive criticism led both the Kirchner and Milei governments to force him off the air – offers a critical analysis of the state of journalism in Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei has the problem of being completely dogmatic’

23-02-2025 06:08 In the final part of a feature interview, former president Alberto Fernández discusses the insurance corruption allegations he faces in the courts, President Javier Milei, Peronism and his relationship with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Former president Alberto Fernández, pictured during an interview with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia.

FEATURE INTERVIEW

Alberto Fernández: ‘Fabiola has not grasped the dimensions of what she is saying’

15-02-2025 06:00 In the first half of a two-part interview, former president Alberto Fernández addresses the gender violence and psychological mistreatment allegations made against him by his ex-partner Fabiola Yáñez.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

‘Trump is the catalyst,’ agree former ambassadors to China

01-02-2025 09:44 Argentina’s two most recent ambassadors to China, Diego Guelar and Sabino Vaca Narvaja, discuss the chessboard facing the world’s two key powers as Donald Trump begins a new term in the United States.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

From PRO to Cambiemos… to Juntos por el Cambio or Juntos?

01-02-2025 08:56 Milei’s first year in office has indicated the need for the ex-members of Juntos por el Cambio to recover their identity.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Martin Schulz sits down for an interview with Jorge Fontevecchia in July 2024.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martin Schulz: ‘The result of the war in Ukraine is decisive for the future of the EU’

02-08-2024 07:05 Former President of the European Parliament, German ex-lawmaker and MEP Martin Schulz, a former president of the European Parliament, on politics in the Old Continent, the EU’s ties with Latin America and the global rise of the far right.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Andrés ‘Cuervo’ Larroque ‘We are in one of the deepest crises in Peronism’s history’

19-07-2024 06:17 Andrés Larroque, Community Development minister for Buenos Aires Province, reflects on the crisis facing Peronism, his links to La Cámpora and President Javier Milei’s government.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Claudia Piñeiro, pictured during her interview with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Claudia Piñeiro: ‘I’ve never ever seen another president celebrate the tears of a rival’

15-06-2024 05:49 Award-winning writer, playwright and screenwriter Claudia Piñeiro on narrative, challenges to women’s rights and President Javier Milei’s rhetoric.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Elisa Carrió, pictured at her home in Exaltación de la Cruz, Buenos Aires Province, during herinterview with Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Elisa Carrió: ‘Friends say to me please don’t speak out – no, I won’t be complicit’

11-05-2024 06:48 Veteran politician and founder of the Coalición Cívica-ARI on President Javier Milei, why the middle class must react to austerity and why she wants a comeback in Congress.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Emilio Monzó: ‘Today fear is so strong that it has wiped out leaders with identity’

04-05-2024 06:38 Ex-lower house speaker and national deputy for Buenos Aires Province on the first 100 days of President Javier Milei’s government, the future of Juntos por el Cambio and why the state isn’t a criminal enterprise.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Lanata, pictured during his interview with Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Jorge Lanata: ‘President Milei has the right to speak and criticise, but not to say just anything’

27-04-2024 05:15 One of Argentina’s most important journalists on his court case against President Javier Milei, pro-government reporters, the challenges facing the media and the nation’s new political order.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Marcos Peña: ‘Our team lost the match, it wasn't just won by Milei’

20-04-2024 05:11 Former Cabinet chief returns in a reflective mood, discussing Mauricio Macri’s PRO, the future Juntos por el Cambio and the rise of La Libertad Avanza.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Guillermo Dietrich: ‘I’m backing this government all I can so that it does well’

13-04-2024 05:47 Former transport minister and close ally of Mauricio Macri on the Milei government, state companies and Juntos por el Cambio.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

06-04-2024 06:09 Senator and UCR chair on why the mega DNU emergency decree was unconstitutional, President Milei’s economic plan and Radical renewal.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Silvia Labayrú: ‘I was the first, I believe, to give birth at ESMA’

17-02-2024 06:43 Silvia Labayrú is a survivor of one of Argentina’s darkest places during the 1976-1983 era of state terrorism. Held at the ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School, which served as a clandestine detention centre during the dictatorship’s rein of terror, she was kidnapped, tortured and raped several times during her captivity. In a feature interview, she recalls her experience and reveals the horrors she suffered during those black days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Emilce Cuda: ‘It’s a fantasy that we’re individuals, we’re in relationships with others’

27-01-2024 07:00 Theologian Emilce Cuda is the first Argentine laywoman to receive a pontifical PhD in moral theology and the first female to hold an executive position on the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. In an interview, she discusses Pope Francis and explains why “individualism is an egotistical position.”

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Mariano Cúneo Libarona: ‘The necessary and urgent right now, the debatable goes to the Omnibus bill’

20-01-2024 06:55 Javier Milei’s justice minister on the president’s controversial decree, the ‘Omnibus Law’ and “a process of revolutionary change” in Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Rodolfo Barra: ‘Emergency decrees are for when the going gets tough’

13-01-2024 06:41 Argentina’s new Treasury attorney defends President Javier Milei’s emergency decree in a feature-length interview that also touches on protest rights, the Supreme Court and his Nazi past during adolescence.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Pablo Gerchunoff: ‘People voted for a scream of fury… inside it lies change’

06-01-2024 07:23 Renowned economist, essayist and researcher Pablo Gerchunoff analyses the ascent of Javier Milei to the Presidency.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Juan Grabois: ‘A disruption evidently captivated most Argentines’

23-12-2023 06:46 Lawyer, social leader and former presidential candidate Juan Grabois on Javier Milei, the government’s economic emergency measures and receiving criticism from both sides.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Ramiro Marra: ‘The economic future will be very difficult in the short term’

16-12-2023 06:01 Buenos Aires City lawmaker and former mayoral candidate Ramiro Marra on La Libertad Avanza, his relationship with Javier Milei and why he isn’t a member of the new president’s government.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

President Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei should give Macri as wide a berth as possible’

01-12-2023 15:04 Just days after meeting with his successor, Argentina’s outgoing president sits down to reflect on his four years of government, the challenges he faced and why he believes Javier Milei won last month’s run-off.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023 – OPINION

Don't vote for Milei

12-11-2023 09:53 La Libertad Avanza contributed to an enrichment of political debate and set the agenda, even with bad diagnoses and remedies, identifying problems that need to be solved. But it is not the best choice of government for today’s Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘PRO today is allying itself with an extreme rightist’

11-11-2023 04:23 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta on his PASO primary defeat, the future of Juntos por el Cambio, Macri and Bullrich’s decision to back Milei and what happens after December 10.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Sergio Massa and Mauricio Macri in happier times.

ELECTION 2023: OPINION

Macri hates Massa more than Cristina and her Kirchnerites

04-11-2023 05:21 The talk of vanquishing Kirchnerism is as meaningless as when Milei speaks of Communists. Kirchnerism today is not Macri’s enemy, Massa is.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023 – ANALYSIS

The reconfiguration of the political map

24-10-2023 16:16 Juntos por el Cambio runs the risk of disintegration after defeat. Milei’s congratulations to PRO’s two territorial winners – Jorge Macri and Rogelio Frigerio in Entre Ríos – and his repetition of the word “juntos” in his speech shows evidence of his intent.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Carlos Melconian: ‘I believe that there is an opportunity because we have touched bottom’

14-10-2023 05:53 Famous for being the “king of metaphor,” Carlos Melconian will be Argentina’s next economy minister if Patricia Bullrich wins the upcoming election. In an extensive interview he explains his integral plan for putting Argentina back on its feet.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Gabriel Rubinstein: ‘A fiscal surplus, sustained over time, is the key to start solving inflation’

14-10-2023 05:49 Argentina’s Economic Policy Secretary Gabriel Rubinstein presents the case for the ruling coalition, argues that inflation is slowing from its post-PASO devaluation-led peak and highlights the importance of the consensus implicit in all the political parties involved in the electoral race.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Luis Ignacio Brusco, Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and president of the Argentine Neuropsychiatric Association.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Luis Ignacio Brusco: Understanding why we vote differently

30-09-2023 05:36 Psychiatrist, neurologist and researcher, dean of the UBA Medical Faculty and Argentine Neuropsychiatric Association, MD and PhD, discusses why we vote differently and the cerebral functions which enter into decision-making.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Co-founder of Editorial Perfil and CEO of the Perfil Network, Jorge Fontevecchia, demanded this week that the Executive and Legislative Branches promote the approval of a new law to punish denialism in Argentina.

HUMAN RIGHTS

The imperious need to penalise denialism

27-09-2023 13:12 There are issues, like crimes against humanity, which should be beyond electoral speculation. With the same speed with which the government secured approval for amending the income tax threshold, it should also now approve a law to condemn denialism with the support of Juntos por el Cambio and a united opposition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Florencio Randazzo, pictured during an interview with Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Florencio Randazzo: ‘If Milei is so awful, you should ask the politicians what happened’

23-09-2023 05:55 Florencio Randazzo, vice-presidential candidate for Hacemos por Nuestro País, on why he is “ashamed” of the current government, how the main coalitions benefit from polarisation and why Javier Milei’s rhetoric isn’t so irrational.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the Primate of Argentina.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva: ‘The Pope wants to come to Argentina’

09-09-2023 06:35 Metropolitan Archbishop and the Primate of Argentina on Pope Francis, poverty and the need for a solution to crime that isn’t prisons.

by Sonia Avalos, AFP

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Alejandro Werner: ‘Trump would’ve backed Fernández and Biden would’ve Macri’

02-09-2023 06:17 Former Western Hemisphere director for the International Monetary Fund and ex-Mexico government official Alejandro Werner on Argentina’s programme, political backing from Washington and the country’s troubled relationship with the multilateral lender.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

President Alberto Fernández, pictured at the offices of Editorial Perfil, which he visited for a feature-length interview with Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT

Alberto Fernández: ‘I’d like to have better relations with Cristina’

24-08-2023 18:14 In an interview, Argentina’s president speaks about the country's potential incorporation into the BRICS bloc of emerging market economies and addresses the election and his role in it, assuring: “Milei is Macri and Macri is Milei.”

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PASO PRIMARIES 2023 – ANALYSIS

The serpent’s egg

15-08-2023 14:26 Until now the PASO primary winner has always reached the Presidency or at least the run-off. Does this guarantee Milei a place in the second round with Patricia Bullrich and Sergio Massa fighting it out for the other spot?

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Argentina's Ambassador to China Sabino Vaca Narvaja.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Sabino Vaca Narvaja: ‘We look to a world which no longer exists, a Eurocentric world’

29-07-2023 06:29 Sabino Vaca Narvaja, Argentina’s ambassador to China, on bilateral relations with Beijing, why trade ties must be deepened and the need to rethink the Foreign Ministry and our approach to the East.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2023 – ANALYSIS

Ranking Massa, Rodríguez Larreta and Bullrich on the Nolan Test (with ChatGPT)

20-07-2023 10:06 As a theoretical exercise, we asked ChatGPT to submit the three candidates most likely to reach the presidency come December 10 to the Nolan Test – a way to rank a person’s politics.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Juan Grabois: ‘Massa is my internal rival but my political enemies are Bullrich and Morales’

08-07-2023 06:50 Catholic social leader and lawyer Juan Grabois – newly confirmed as a presidential candidate for the ruling Unión por la Patria – on his primary rival Sergio Massa, tackling poverty and inequality and why he’s running for the Casa Rosada.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Alfredo Cornejo: ‘People vote far more freely in the PASOs’

23-06-2023 01:11 Senator Alfredo Cornejo, candidate for Mendoza Province governor and a leading figure in the Unión Cívica Radical, on the provincial elections so far and his party's relationship with PRO.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Fernando Straface: ‘There's genuine US concern about Chinese presence in the region'

17-06-2023 06:39 Fernando Straface, secretary-general and secretary of foreign affairs for the Buenos Aires City government, on international relations, the legacy of the Mauricio Macri government and what a Horario Rodríguez Larreta Presidency would look like.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Guzmán: ‘Abandoning the currency never did anybody any good’

10-06-2023 06:27 Argentina’s former economy minister on tackling inflation, unifying the exchange rate regime, the IMF debt deal he negotiated and what happens after the October election.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Patricia Bullrich: ‘I’m carrying out a campaign of truth’

26-05-2023 17:00 Presidential hopeful and former security minister on having the character to lead, the challenges facing Argentina and how she wants to change the country.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Carlos Heller: ‘Lowering inflation is a must, otherwise no success is possible’

20-05-2023 07:00 Banco Credicoop banker and national deputy Carlos Heller on the never-ending battle against inflation, its causes and the impact of the drought on Argentina’s economy.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Marta Minujín: ‘I was born an artist … I can’t do anything else!’

13-05-2023 08:24 Conceptual artist and pop art goddess Marta Minujín on four decades of democracy, her greatest creations and turning 80 years young.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Jorge Macri: ‘I’m not going to tell other candidates what they should do… I’m going to run’

06-05-2023 06:58 Buenos Aires City government minister and mayoral hopeful on meeting the requisites to run, the controversy over concurrent elections and why he wants to lead the nation’s capital.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Aníbal Fernández: ‘I understand and share the president’s view on re-election’

29-04-2023 05:06 Argentina’s security minister on Alberto Fernández’s decision to end his re-election bid, his rocky relationship with Máximo Kirchner and La Cámpora and why he says the things he says.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Three-term Córdoba Province governor Juan Schiaretti.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Juan Schiaretti: ‘Fiscal balance should not entail extreme austerity’

22-04-2023 06:29 Three-term Córdoba Province governor on transcending ‘la grieta,’ why Peronism must split from Kirchnerism and why export duties on the agricultural sector should be removed.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

María Eugenia Vidal, pictured during her 2023 interview with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

María Eugenia Vidal: ‘The government never had a serious and consistent economic programme’

15-04-2023 06:43 National deputy and former Buenos Aires Province governor on her presidential ambitions, hawks and doves, her recent marriage and learning from defeat.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Unión Cívica Radical Senator Martín Lousteau, pictured with a copy of the Buenos Aires Times.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Lousteau: ‘The PASO primaries permit the emergence of new leaders’

08-04-2023 06:54 UCR senator and mayoral hopeful for the City of Buenos Aires discusses Argentina’s economy, introducing a collective change of course and the differences between the Radicals and PRO.

by Jorge Fontevecchia