News of analysis

Between a Rocca and a hard place

31-01-2026 06:34 Screaming that a company should go bankrupt because its quotation was 40% higher than an Indian firm’s is wonky politics for a president.

by Marcelo J. García

JPMorgan courts Argentina by readily refilling stash of dollars

29-01-2026 16:08 JPMorgan’s ties to Argentina run deep — just look at Milei’s economic team.

​​Ideology over technique – Milei government’s banned glossary

26-01-2026 09:09 Invisible lists of uncomfortable words have started to affect different state bodies. When the state starts to cross out words, it does not correct language: it foolishly attempts to correct reality.

by Juan Cruz Soqueira

The Davos rapture and Milei’s Nobel pitch

24-01-2026 07:38 The contours of a new world order are beginning to express themselves...

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei’s relentless chainsaw – the great campaign promise he kept

19-01-2026 21:07 Several of the grandest presidential commitments made by Argentina’s President on the campaign trail in 2023 have been shelved and apparently forgotten: dollarisation, the implosion of the Central Bank and the total eradication of inflation. Without support from the IMF or the United States, those objectives would have proved unviable. But there is one point nobody can dispute: the fiscal surplus. In scarcely two years, the government has reversed a historic deficit with the deepest austerity since the return of democracy. But the discussion still pending is the political, social and institutional cost.

by Carlos Burgueño

LatAm on the run (from Trump)

17-01-2026 07:04 Latin American leaders are scrambling to adapt to the new reality in which the United States can impose its will on the hemisphere.

by Marcelo J. García

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

Milei still props up peso despite looser trading rules

13-01-2026 13:09 President Javier Milei is sticking with his core approach: intervene, manage and prop up the peso, in an effort to keep inflation down. 

Existential angst is for Europeans

02-01-2026 08:40 In contrast to the many Europeans, Argentines have yet to resign themselves to collective failure.

by James Neilson

The physics of power in Milei’s Argentina

26-12-2025 07:50 As the year enters its final stretch, spectators are looking to the Milei administration in order to figure out whether it will be able to deliver on multiple fronts, particularly whether it will manage to build a consensus in Congress.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei stymies wild peso swings as he resets Argentine FX policy

18-12-2025 01:34 The Central Bank’s FX desk is about to play a more prominent role as President Javier Milei seeks to accumulate reserves.

Milei's law for (removing) glacier protection is a regressive reform

17-12-2025 23:56 The bill to amend the National Glacier Protection Law, would dismantle the minimalist regime which today protects glaciers and the periglacial perimeter, Argentina’s most important strategic water reserves.

Chile follows Latin American neighbours in lurching right

16-12-2025 07:49 Leftist leaders have not won a single presidential election in Latin America this year as voters opt for change.

Argentina, too big to fail?

13-12-2025 09:37 The sceptic in me wonders whether, given Trump’s personality and lust for sycophancy, the message could simply be: “Milei, too big to fail.”

by David Smith

Government stages market comeback with local dollar bond sale

10-12-2025 22:53 Demand for the US$1-billion sale reached US$1.42 billion; Deal seen as dry run for Argentina's eventual resumption of overseas borrowing.

Intelligence services adrift and under uncertain leadership

09-12-2025 17:05 In a region beginning to convulse due to the presence of United States troops in the Caribbean, with a latent threat from Iran against the country, the reshuffle at Argentina’s SIDE intelligence services once again lays bare an agency riddled with internal strife.

by Walter Curia

The tectonic fracture of Argentina’s economy

29-11-2025 05:20 This is a game-changer for Argentina’s economy, anticipated for years and slowly happening. Milei has contributed to this outcome, but it is not solely the result of his actions. He is, however, the President that – if he does things right – will benefit from it.

by Marcelo J. García

Disunited provinces II

29-11-2025 05:13 La Libertad Avanza won in 15 of 23 provinces, including the largest, with Tucumán the most important outside the fold. Opposition candidates only enjoyed a clear lead in half their provinces won, although LLA margins were extremely slender in four of their 15 victories, including the main prize of Buenos Aires Province.

UCR enters a critical moment with the party’s future at stake

24-11-2025 21:27 UCR National Committee will be renewing its leadership next month. Tensions reflects level of infighting among different provincial tribes, torn between those governors maintaining a good relationship with the Casa Rosada and those who seek to keep their distance.

by Ezequiel Spillman

Disunited provinces

22-11-2025 06:51 Looking at inland Argentina is far from irrelevant since tax reform is high on the list of President Javier Milei’s priorities with negotiating the revenue sensitivities of provincial governors perhaps the biggest obstacle there.

by Michael Soltys