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The Gaucho James Bond and Bolsonaro’s escape

31-10-2026 00:55 The Flávio story could read like a thriller, if it wasn’t pathetic in a cartoonish kind of way. It is also a tale of our times, in which politics is increasingly becoming an extreme sport where the returns of ill-gotten gains can be enormous, while the risks to everyone involved generally include prison.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Electoral tricks and treats

31-10-2026 00:05 The thought of a man who has been described as “a Marxist disguised as a Keynesian” taking control of the Argentine economy is paralysing economic activity at home and investment abroad.

by Michael Soltys

Lula wins record fourth term in Brazil in a shock comeback

25-10-2026 22:49 Voters from Lula’s heartland in Brazil’s poorest region rally to the rescue of the leftist leader who has been the face of the region’s resistance to Trumpism. 

Milei in dead heat with Peronism, one year out from election, polls show

24-10-2026 00:53 One year out from polling day, surveys point to a tight race, polarised electorate, significant group of undecided voters and appetite for a ‘third way’ candidate.

by James Grainger

Vaca Muerta to re-elect Milei; rest of Argentina not so sure

17-10-2026 00:56 The growing divide between the wealth of a handful of sectors and the mediocrity of the vast majority of the economy is becoming a riddle for the Milei administration.

by Marcelo J. García

Lula and Milei in the mirror

17-10-2026 00:10 While in Brazil, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s chances of re-election are extremely slim despite what appears to be a situation of economic strength, in Argentina, President Javier Milei is still totally in the game as the economy stumbles on its way to a technical recession.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei fails to boost lending as banks load up on government debt

08-10-2026 08:54 Tight monetary policy and high interest rates are driving banks back into government debt as the economy slows, partly due to a lack of credit.

Argentina chooses its own Brazil

07-10-2026 11:27 President Javier Milei's government and Argentina's opposition have selectively interpreted the results of Brazil’s election to suit their own interests.

by Javier Calvo

Milei said in public what the UN walkout crowd says in private

29-09-2026 11:27 Javier Milei told the UN General Assembly that an uncomfortable truth beats a comfortable lie. The walkout Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced the next day proved his point.

A world of difference

26-09-2026 00:29 Argentina joined the United Nations as one of the 51 founding members on its very first day – October 24, 1945 – but neither Juan Domingo Perón nor his military replacements could be bothered to take time off for the annual regular session of its General Assembly....

by Michael Soltys

Fidget, fudge it, Budget

19-09-2026 00:34 National budgets only started with any regularity after the Constitution of 1853 when Argentina’s first elected president Justo José de Urquiza created the modern Economy Ministry in 1854.

by Michael Soltys

The eve of destruction, perhaps

19-09-2026 00:25 If the tech bros are right about what their research teams have devised, it is already too late to do anything to put AI back in a far more restrictive “sand box” than the ones from which it has managed to make a Houdini-like escape…

by James Neilson

Milei’s strong peso is holding back economic growth

17-09-2026 12:46 Government's efforts to tame inflation with a strong currency are taking a growing toll on the economy.

Study: Scrapping PASO primaries saved just US$9.5 million

15-09-2026 12:50 Study by Fundación Éforo determines that state saved only US$9.5 million last year by suspending last year’s PASO primaries.

We do need more education

11-09-2026 09:28 Argentine youngsters continue to fall farther and farther behind their peers in the rest of the world.

by James Neilson

Monthly inflation slows to lowest since last June

10-09-2026 17:38 Monthly inflation slows to the lowest level in 14 months, in a win for President Javier Milei.

The Bad, the Worse and the Peronists

05-09-2026 00:29 If the Peronists cannot deprioritise their differences, even as a weakened Milei creates an opening for victory, the prospects of sound political management if they eventually reach office are next to zero.

by Marcelo J. García

Time to batten down the hatches

05-09-2026 00:09 Economists and financiers are not the only people who suspect that bad times are in the offing. The “rules-based order” underpinned by the US is falling apart.

by James Neilson

Why Perfil is fighting OpenAI and Microsoft over theft of journalistic content to feed their AI

29-08-2026 06:04 Most of the major AI models have been built on an explicit thief and its perpetuation further weakens one of the beleaguered pillars of democracy: journalism.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei’s magic fades on Argentina’s slowing economic recovery

26-08-2026 13:07 President Javier Milei’s Economists and analysts say economic revival is sputtering, with the recovery not only fading but becoming increasingly uneven.