News of Robert Cox

Robert Cox

Former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald (1968-1979).

Horacio Méndez Carreras upheld dignity and decency in inglorious times

02-05-2024 09:00 Horacio witnessed so much. Some of his experiences were as hilarious as they were chilling, but he did much more than bear witness. He is a man who helped make Argentina a better place.

by Robert Cox

The Colonia festival of music is back, running from November 15 to 20. The Festival Internacional de Colonia, set in the ancient city of Colonia del Sacramento, will be offering 15 shows in six days.

PERFORMING ARTS

Revive your spirit with cultural feast in Colonia del Sacramento

24-09-2022 06:00 The plague of Covid-19 has receded and Uruguay’s Festival Internacional de Colonia is returning for its fifth edition.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

The finish-line is in sight

21-11-2020 08:42 It has certainly been a rough ride, but the finishing line is in sight and there are feeble signs that Republican legislators are questioning, although not yet challenging, Trump’s leadership of the party.

by Robert Cox

‘Trump’s delusions overpower checks and balances of US democracy’.

US ELECTION 2020

Denialist-in-chief

14-11-2020 10:13 Donald Trump’s contemptuous refusal to concede defeat signs and seals his presidency on a typical note of petulance.

by Robert Cox

Festival Internacional de Colonia

The show must go on (line)

10-11-2020 15:11 Since our lives were turned upside down by Covid-19, I have benefitted from artists, musicians and comedians who have made their work available to the wider world on YouTube. Starting Wednesday, the Festival Internacional de Colonia will do the same.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

An election for the soul of America

31-10-2020 08:43 With both the Democratic and Republican candidates in the United States declaring that this election is a battle to save “the soul of America,” it is time to ask where the soul lies.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Discovering good in the ill wind

17-10-2020 09:15 I think many people must have had a journey of discovery thanks to the quarantine. I have had many glorious awakenings to fascinating people, places and subjects while looking up the most prosaic things.

by Robert Cox

US diplomat, who was sent to Buenos Aires in 1977, famously opened the US Embassy’s doors to relatives of those disappeared by the dictatorship.

FROM WHERE I STAND

For Tex Harris, the man who did the right thing

29-02-2020 09:38 Looking back, I realise that it was natural for Tex – a man of enormous generosity who had a great gift for friendship – to do the right thing.

by Robert Cox

The Festival Internacional de Colonia runs from November 13 to 17.

ART & CULTURE

Festival Internacional de Colonia expands for exciting second edition

05-10-2019 09:42 Internationally acclaimed Uruguayan pianist Enrique Graf returns with new line-up for second incarnation of festival. Get tickets to this cultural extravaganza soon – for it’s no longer a secret...

by Robert Cox

REMEMBERING ANDREW GRAHAM-YOOLL

A good ol’ yarn (as Andrew would say)

20-07-2019 09:01 Andrew & I were both concentrating on doing our job, which we saw as reporting as much as we could about what was going on.

by Robert Cox

Welcome to Buenos Aires, writes Bob Cox.

FROM WHERE I STAND

Those perplexing Argentines

30-11-2018 05:32 The mobs who identify with football clubs called barra bravas have darkened the azure skies of Argentina at the precise moment when the world is watching.

by Robert Cox

Robert Cox, former editor of Buenos Aires Herald, at FOPEA ceremony.

FROM WHERE I STAND

Honour can only come from doing your duty

17-11-2018 14:29 The FOPEA awards ceremony gave me an opportunity to emphasise a point I have been making for years. I believe that journalism is more than a profession, it is a vocation. It is a vocation because journalists have a duty to inform. I believe that they are also the guardians of the people and the defenders of democracy.

by Robert Cox

Is the cruise ship going nowhere and are its voyages being repetitive?

FROM WHERE I STAND

We’re all in the same boat

20-10-2018 08:02 I idly wondered if I could compare Argentina today to an orchestra, one in which all the sections and most of the members are playing a different tune, with nobody taking any notice of the conductor.

by Robert Cox

AS I SEE IT

Menchi the incomparable: A lesson in personal integrity

06-10-2018 09:56 Sabat’s legacy, for Argentine society and for journalists specifically, is the value of personal integrity.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

No more half measures

01-09-2018 10:44 Looking back over my almost 60 years of involvement in Argentine journalism, I can’t help but be optimistic about the future.

by Robert Cox

"I was horrified to see the return of the 'bicicleta,' a financial aberration. That was a warning that nothing had been learned from the financial disasters of the past," writes Robert Cox.

ON ECONOMIC TURBULENCE

The man who wasn't there

30-08-2018 15:02 The failure of the Macri government to control inflation, with the consequent galloping devaluation of the peso, looms over Argentina like a black cloud, warning that more storms are brewing.

by Robert Cox

The death of the towering writer V.S. Naipaul.

FROM WHERE I STAND

When Naipaul came to town

18-08-2018 11:23 Naipaul certainly contributed to Argentina’s black legend in which Nazis, torturers, guerillas, jack-booted dictators, necrophilia, misogony, corruption are mixed up to make a heady brew both distasteful and alluring

by ROBERT COX

Nestor Kirchner on the spotlight once again.

FROM WHERE I STAND

Notebooks and tales of Kirchnerite corruption

11-08-2018 09:36 Perhaps we should curb our enthusiasm, but I can’t help feeling that journalists and judges can now do their work and that people are waking up from a nightmare of deception and corruption.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Trump and old-fashioned journalism

04-08-2018 07:44 At this time, when democracy is under stress in many countries, it is journalism, the Fourth Estate that must come into its own and ensure the centre holds.

by Robert Cox

Trump as the Statue of Liberty transformed into a concrete wall.

FROM WHERE I STAND

Where are the Republicans with a conscience?

21-07-2018 11:44 It was thanks to the intensive press coverage of the summit in Helsinki that President Trump was revealed as a doting admirer of Big Brother and all that he stands for.

by Robert Cox

CIA used torture in a a clandestine prison in Thailand

FROM WHERE I STAND

Trump’s wobbly moral compass

19-05-2018 12:30 Ms. Haspel is in the news because when she ran a clandestine CIA prison in Thailand she ordered “enhanced interrogation,” which is simply torture by another name.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Journalism as an antidode to delusion

14-05-2018 09:57 Traditional press in the United States has come alive and is carrying out its vital role in society with newfound fervour and dedication. There is a renewed sense of responsibility and a call to duty. But it is the worst of times as well as the best of times for American journalism.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

The Age of the Human Pseudo-Event

05-05-2018 11:52 Boorstin never imagined that a pseudo-event could ever win the nomination to be the presidential candidate of the Republican Party and then would go on to win the presidency.

by Robert Cox

Some US citizens have chosen as their slogan words that speak to all Argentines: “Never again

FROM WHERE I STAND

Another call for Nunca Más

24-02-2018 11:47 Contributions, essentially bribes, to politicians from the NRA help to explain why a law banning the AR-12 was allowed to expire. And the chances of any real effort to ban weapons of war happening may be measured by the fact that Donald Trump received the largest contribution from the NRA, US$11,438,118, for the 2016 elections.

by Robert Cox

"Under his presidency, the US has become like a third-world country"

FROM WHERE I STAND

With Trump, silence speaks volumes

17-02-2018 09:25 The Republican Party are like their kin in Argentina were in those dark days. They either refuse to see that a narcissistic, racist liar is leading their republic astray, or come up with pathetic excuses for his behaviour.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Trump: the emperor with no clothes

14-01-2018 00:09 Every day I hope for a return to normality, but President Donald Trump constantly delivers yet another twist to this grotesque tragi-comic opera we are witnessing.

by Robert Cox

Former US President Jimmy Carter receives the Order of the Liberator General San Martín.

FROM WHERE I STAND

A fitting honour for President Carter

19-11-2017 00:18 I don’t think that there can be any doubt that what is needed is a rededication to human rights, both here and in the United States... it is fitting that Argentina has finally honoured Jimmy Carter.

by Robert Cox

More information: www.hecultura.com and www.youtube.com/user/lacasaclaypole

FROM WHERE I STAND

A example of the middle ground

04-11-2017 12:47 Claypole is an example of what brings people together.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Oficialitis, reprisals and ‘useful idiots’

28-10-2017 12:42 The grieta struck again. The journalists who signed the statement were attacked ... they were merely defending the freedom of the press, journalists from persecution and the people’s right to be informed.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

In Argentina, the media is a weapon

21-10-2017 10:49 Successive governments have talked about giving up the state communications system, but none has made any move yet to get out of the propaganda business.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Santiago Maldonado’s disappearance is a moral challenge for the government

07-10-2017 10:25 There is a collective conscience in the country that will not be silenced, one that will not allow a return to the past when disappearing people was a convenient way to wipe out dissent.

by Robert Cox

FROM WHERE I STAND

Murders, threats, guerrillas and the occult: those years before the coup

30-09-2017 12:15 I confess that I am still trying to work out why Argentina was plunged into the violence of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

by Robert Cox

opinion and analysis

Division is neither new nor insurmountable

23-09-2017 09:30 We have gone from the calesita to the grieta – from the roundabout to the crevasse.

by Robert Cox

opinion and analysis

The Herald: without fear or favour

16-09-2017 11:30 In early August of 1976 the staff of the Herald were still trying to find out what was going on, in a nation that had already been silenced.

by Robert Cox

opinion and analysis

Saga of Santiago stirs worrying memories of the past

09-09-2017 17:22 It took a storm of public anger and marches to prompt the government to mobilise a massive search operation.

by Robert Cox

Buenos Aires Times

What’s in a name?

02-09-2017 14:41 I have learned a few basic truths about newspapers. The first is that a newspaper will only be as good as the journalists who work for it. The second is that there can be no good journalism without principled owners.