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When budget rhymes with ‘fudge it’

18-12-2021 07:32 In Argentina the budget continues to be something of a bad joke.

The great dichotomy

10-12-2021 23:33 Journalism is still in the middle of its transformation into a new discipline, and media companies continue to face a critical situation, particularly in Argentina where economic crisis is the norm.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

20-11-2021 12:07 It would do the government a power of good to admit their defeat and read its message so that they can start addressing its causes.

The tomorrow after tomorrow

13-11-2021 00:01 Who wins and who loses tomorrow is far less important than what comes next for the country.

One month (and two years) to go

16-10-2021 00:01 The Frente de Todos coalition is failing to come up with any new answers now that reality is finally starting to bite.

Could justice be just just?

09-10-2021 12:16 Unfashionable as this opinion might be, Argentine justice is showing various signs of a robust independence from outside pressures in exceptionally volatile political times.

Prematurely Accelerating Serious Options

11-09-2021 15:25 All too many politicians have been trying to bring the 2023 presidential elections ahead to tomorrow, seeking to stampede voters into a premature “the people or the republic” polarisation and to nationalise the voting.

Bored to tears or bored to fears?

04-09-2021 10:00 Perhaps what Kirchnerism abhors most about Switzerland is not only the neutrality but also the centrality of that landlocked country bang in the middle of Europe – an aversion to the middle ground upon which it will depend so much in the next couple of months.

Messy is the name of the game in general

07-08-2021 09:11 Recent U-turns in vaccine strategy and diplomacy not only transcend the medical sphere but might well end up having more impact beyond.

No winter lasts forever

31-07-2021 00:13 Political unity is one of the two key pillars for electoral success in Peronist eyes – the other is lavish public spending.

Sold down the river?

04-07-2021 00:13 State control over the Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay waterway has been decreed for the next year at least, but the temporary has the nasty habit of becoming permanent in Argentina.

Deadlock calls for a mediator

25-06-2021 23:14 The deadlock in Venezuela calls for a mediator. Mediation would entail various risks for the government, but Venezuelans have suffered too much for the effort not to be made.

Now is the winter of our discontent

29-05-2021 10:36 There's still three weeks to go for winter but in every way except the weather it is already here.

Problems in perspective

15-05-2021 11:28 President Alberto Fernández has sought a back door but he flouts one of the most elementary principles of jurisprudence – an ordinary law cannot override the Constitution.

Poverty is our worst expense

03-04-2021 09:03 This relentlessly surging poverty worries all of us and naturally worries the government too – or does it?

Not so much how to win as when?

06-02-2021 10:32 The current combination of capital controls, price freezes, overpriced bonds, etc. might suffice for the next eight months without bursting, but not for a further two years.

Post-pandemic redemption

04-04-2020 11:17 Perhaps everything will revert to type after the crisis is over, but this Easter might just give humanity a new resurrection.

Planning for a post-pandemic Argentina

28-03-2020 11:57 There can be no doubt that we are at war with a coronavirus epidemic which is causing death, destruction and panic on a par with military hostilities – that is the language being used by governments worldwide.

Let’s put this pandemic – and panic – in perspective

29-02-2020 11:06 The coronavirus pandemic – and panic – worldwide is providing easy meat for some sensationalist media but it also needs to be placed in perspective.

Immolating Monetarist Fundamentalism

22-02-2020 11:55 A birthday gift for Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner? Well, perhaps not quite – the International Monetary Fund’s concluding statement last Wednesday (the day the ex-president turned 67) might have fully endorsed the insistence of President Alberto Fernández and Economy Minister Martín Guzmán that Argentina’s foreign debt is “unsustainable,” but did not go quite as far as explicit mention of a “haircut” (least of all for the IMF itself, as stridently demanded by the veep from Cuba).