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Carolina Moisés: ‘We either return to being Peronist or Peronism will cease to exist’

03-03-2026 15:22 After breaking up the Unión por la Patria interbloc and laying claim to the Senate vice-presidency, Jujuy Senator Carolina Moisés criticises Kirchnerism and the La Cámpora militants, arguing for the need to rebuild a competitive inland Peronism.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

The fall of the Bolivarian régime and its ruinous fallout for Argentina

13-01-2026 15:18 Argentina’s economic relationship with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela left a negative balance difficult to hide. From Hugo Chávez’s financial loans to Néstor Kirchner to failed trade agreements, expropriations and non-payments, the link translated into lost dollars, lost markets and troubled national companies. Bonds with usurious interest rates, unpaid exports, truncated energy projects and forced nationalisations marked almost three decades of a political alliance which, in economic terms, proved to be costly and ruinous for the country.

by Carlos Burgueño

Defendants offer millions to avoid trial in ‘Cuadernos’ graft case

17-09-2025 16:44 Business leaders offer more than US$1 billion in cash, properties and other items to avoid standing trial but run into resistance from lead prosecutor; Mega-corruption trial probing alleged bribery and kickbacks at Federal Planning Ministry under Kirchner governments due to kick off November 6.

JPMorgan, Citi among banks in talks for Argentina pipeline loan

25-04-2025 11:14 Money would fund Vaca Muerta Sur, featuring a pipeline running from Argentina’s shale heartland across northern Patagonia to the Atlantic coast.

Tinkering and tailoring the judge and the spy

24-08-2024 05:55 While “Big Brother” espionage would seem to contradict the libertarian creed in general, the nomination of the controversial federal judge Ariel Lijo for the Supreme Court flies in the face of Milei’s electoral crusade against a corrupt “caste.”

Ex-Energy and Mining secretary Flavia Royón: 'RIGI is necessary’

06-06-2024 00:50 Former Energy & Mining secretary in Alberto Fernández and Javier Milei governments says RIGI investment incentive scheme is “necessary to develop LNG, hydrogen and mining projects.”