News of editorial

The art of unstable equilibrium

12-06-2021 00:01 If other countries doing things right are going wrong, could the reverse be true for Argentina?

Vaccines and votes – two V-words for V-signs

04-06-2021 22:55 Everything might seem to depend on vaccines but single-issue politics is unlikely to sway an election conditioned by multiple factors.

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

Courting deadlock

08-05-2021 00:28 The whole idea of the separation of powers is to achieve a constructive division of labour, not a collision course in which the component forces cancel each out.

EDITORIAL

Thinking green or greenbacks

24-04-2021 00:19 Argentina’s vision cannot afford to remain stuck in the 1970s of OPEC and ideological strife in energy any more than political terms – this country offers enormous potential for renewable energy.

EDITORIAL

Second waves and third worlds

10-04-2021 09:26 The income tax cuts finally approved by the Senate last Thursday carry every appearance of being the right thing for the wrong reasons.

EDITORIAL

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?

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

Uneasy lies the head that wears the coronavirus

25-04-2020 12:12 Politics has returned among the pandemic.

EDITORIAL

When default comes by default

18-04-2020 10:36 The government said everything and nothing on Thursday but it might as well have said nothing, given the extreme flux in which the economy is drifting both here and abroad. This seems to have been implicitly recognised by debtor and creditors alike.

EDITORIAL

Easter then and now

11-04-2020 11:08 Today, post-pandemic Argentina can only be written in the future tense – but what does Argentine history 33 Easters ago tell us?

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

Stay home

21-03-2020 10:46 The common responsibility against coronavirus leaves no room for political strife, which has been refreshingly absent in recent days.

EDITORIAL

Complexities of the coronavirus crisis

14-03-2020 10:29 The collateral damage accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has taken on a life of its own this month.

EDITORIAL

Plenty to ponder on International Women’s Day

07-03-2020 09:25 A quilt with room for more than tomorrow’s two marches: Femicide is worse than ever with one every 23 hours as against every 29 hours as recorded in last March’s editorial, with the post mortem indignities of last weekend’s murder in Catamarca adding a new dimension of horror.

EDITORIAL

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.

EDITORIAL

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).

EDITORIAL

Bridging the distance

15-02-2020 10:53 A major actor compounding the appalling neglect suffered by the Wichi indigenous population is the 1,500 kilometres separating them from the corridors of power in an overcentralised country.

EDITORIAL

Are the wheels coming off the Axel?

08-02-2020 12:59 Much has been said about the ideological differences between the pragmatic and extremist wings of the ruling Frente de Todos coalition but last week the contrast was clearest in style and strategy – the smooth soap of presidential showcasing with the top political leaders of the European mainland at all odds with the wild roller-coaster lurches of Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof out of all proportion to the tiny bond he was scheduled to pay last month.

EDITORIAL

A leap into the dark

01-02-2020 10:07 Brexit is finally a reality, ending almost half a century of British membership in the European Union.

EDITORIAL

Symbolism and pragmatism

25-01-2020 10:38 President Alberto Fernández has chosen a destination laden with profoundly ethical symbolism for his first journey abroad, and yet the pragmatic prism through which he appears to view every issue seems to have tinged most of the analysis.

EDITORIAL

The 86th victim

18-01-2020 14:53 The baffling death of special AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman, exactly five years ago today, qualifies as a magnicide precisely because it is so much more than that – a milestone in Argentine history but also yet another link in a chain of impunity.

EDITORIAL

2019 in retrospect...and looking ahead to 2020

28-12-2019 10:17 The professional optical term for normal or perfect eyesight is “20/20 vision” – but the year lying ahead of us is anything but normal, perfect, visionary or clear.

EDITORIAL

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas

21-12-2019 13:56 Especially in this country we are accustomed to a top-down mentality of expecting everything from the government, also assigning the blame accordingly, but saving the planet needs to be the reverse process. And so it is proving to be.

EDITORIAL

Crisis as challenge or opportunity

14-12-2019 12:12 Alberto Fernández has at least two advantages over his predecessor as he heads into his first full week as president – a dominant position in Congress and a lack of any definite commitments.

EDITORIAL

Hi Alberto...ciao Mauricio

07-12-2019 13:13 Confidence-building is also crucial in the political sphere in the form of power-building. No analysis is free from speculation over his dependence on a future vice-president who named him candidate and will now anoint him president.

EDITORIAL

The sins of the fathers

30-11-2019 12:56 Last Monday, in the highly conservative province of Mendoza, there was a landmark verdict sentencing two priests to over 40 years in prison on 25 counts of sexually abusing deaf-mutes at their Instituto Antonio Próvolo school during nearly a decade – sentences far exceeding most homicides.

EDITORIAL

Call no country stable

23-11-2019 13:54 The potential difficulties of President-elect Alberto Fernández go far beyond picking a Cabinet (the main focus of media speculation in the past week) but as if these were not enough on the domestic front, events elsewhere in the region are raising the bar even higher.

EDITORIAL

The C-word

16-11-2019 13:28 Almost everybody seems to be reducing Bolivia’s highly complex crisis to a four-letter word – everything hinges on whether there was a “coup” or whether Evo Morales was not the real coup-monger, the architect of his own destruction with his constitutionally cavalier pursuit of presidential eternity.

EDITORIAL

A month is an even longer time in politics

09-11-2019 12:11 His future Cabinet remains a mystery while his road map for a stricken economy does not go beyond a broad socio-economic agreement, with a 2020 wage and price ceiling of 35 percent widely floated but far from confirmed.

EDITORIAL

Polarised – but balanced

02-11-2019 12:39 Macri not only escaped political obliteration last weekend but also improved his fallen image by proving a good loser, in contrast to the bad winners in at least two of the three main victory speeches – he thus stands consolidated as the future opposition leader, for now

EDITORIAL

Tomorrow is another day

26-10-2019 13:16 Yet we should not limit our focus to the excitement of tomorrow’s voting – Monday could be just as important or even more decisive for Argentina’s future.

EDITORIAL

Climate changing faster than politicians

19-10-2019 13:49 If climate change clearly topped the agenda at last month’s United Nations General Assembly, it is being given extremely short shrift at tomorrow’s presidential debate.

EDITORIAL

Grim warnings from Chubut

12-10-2019 13:33 Chubut is thus an extreme example of the Argentine conundrum of a rich country brought low by fiscal insolvency – all the royalties from over a century of oil wealth around Comodoro Rivadavia have not prevented the province from being crippled by protests against public-sector pay arrears for the last 14 weeks now (and counting).

EDITORIAL

Courting disarray

05-10-2019 11:32 The Mendoza result was welcome from at least two angles – the resounding victory of a Macri coalition ally (only the second this year) brings us slightly closer to a contested election while the crushing defeat of the ardently Kirchnerite opposition candidate distances Alberto Fernández further from being a puppet of his running-mate, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

EDITORIAL

Macri, Manhattan, Mendoza and Messi

28-09-2019 03:47 It is not the aim of this editorial to go into the intricacies of Mendoza local politics (whose importance should never be underestimated) nor to eye the opinion polls (whose credibility was badly tarnished by last month’s PASO primaries) but rather to view tomorrow’s race in the context of this year’s provincial voting.

EDITORIAL

Facing a wider (and wilder) world

21-09-2019 12:17 The tragic crisis paralysing the oil-rich Patagonian province of Chubut is an extreme example of problems overhanging this country as a whole

Op-Ed

Contradictions, convictions and convergence

13-09-2019 22:58 Contradictions have been constant in the five weeks since the PASO upset conferred frontrunner status on Fernández – an upset which has triggered sporadic market mayhem and massive downtown picket protests.

Editorial

Food for thought

07-09-2019 01:11 With no market mayhem to crowd out all other news (as August’s weird alternation of calm one week and chaos the next now continues into its second month), food was one common denominator of the past week’s main issues.

Editorial

Weathering the storm

31-08-2019 00:07 The government is trying to neutralise populism with populism but history teaches us that fighting fire with fire is playing a dangerous game.

EDITORIAL

Still waters run shallow

24-08-2019 09:05 The government quickly denied that fiscal targets were in jeopardy since the inflation inevitable from the recent devaluation also inflates revenues but the controversy took a new and unexpected turn in the form of a provincial rebellion.

EDITORIAL

Chronicle of a death unforetold?

17-08-2019 12:09 Today is the 169th anniversary of the death of Independence hero José de San Martín but all the talk in Argentina this week has been about a far more recent demise – namely, President Mauricio Macri’s re-election bid.

EDITORIAL

What’s the point of the PASOs?

10-08-2019 08:59 The PASO primaries were created by Law 26,571 in late 2009 during the first term of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presidency with both an institutional and a hidden agenda.

EDITORIAL

Judicial system ripe for overhaul

03-08-2019 09:11 With one side having a hidden agenda of impunity from corruption, while the other views crime-fighting from the standpoint of the police precinct rather than the courtroom, a serious modernisation of the judicial system is an orphan of this campaign but remains an urgent need.

EDITORIAL

Logistically speaking

27-07-2019 11:49 this editorial is an appeal to all candidates to give the country’s logistics the urgent priority they deserve if Argentina is to have a truly federal and national economy.

EDITORIAL

As far away from closure as ever

13-07-2019 10:38 The AMIA bombing was the bloodiest attack against the Jewish Diaspora anywhere in the world since the Shoah and also marks this city’s biggest loss of life in any disaster, apart from the Cromañon rock club.

EDITORIAL

Sub-par funding for science cause for debate

06-07-2019 08:09 Rather than enter into this week’s round of the electoral hurly-burly, this editorial would like to step back and take a look at an area absolutely central to the world of the 21st century: science and technology.

EDITORIAL

Will the tail wag the Trojan horse?

29-06-2019 11:03 Rather than leaders of parties, there are now parties of leaders. A prime reason for the failure of the Alternativa Federal of Pichetto & Co was that it was just such a party of leaders without grass-roots.

News of editorial

The art of unstable equilibrium

Vaccines and votes – two V-words for V-signs

Now is the winter of our discontent

Problems in perspective

Courting deadlock

Thinking green or greenbacks

Second waves and third worlds

Poverty is our worst expense

Not so much how to win as when?

Uneasy lies the head that wears the coronavirus

When default comes by default

Easter then and now

Post-pandemic redemption

Planning for a post-pandemic Argentina

Stay home

Complexities of the coronavirus crisis

Plenty to ponder on International Women’s Day

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

Immolating Monetarist Fundamentalism

Bridging the distance

Are the wheels coming off the Axel?

A leap into the dark

Symbolism and pragmatism

The 86th victim

2019 in retrospect...and looking ahead to 2020

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas

Crisis as challenge or opportunity

Hi Alberto...ciao Mauricio

The sins of the fathers

Call no country stable

The C-word

A month is an even longer time in politics

Polarised – but balanced

Tomorrow is another day

Climate changing faster than politicians

Grim warnings from Chubut

Courting disarray

Macri, Manhattan, Mendoza and Messi

Facing a wider (and wilder) world

Contradictions, convictions and convergence

Food for thought

Weathering the storm

Still waters run shallow

Chronicle of a death unforetold?

What’s the point of the PASOs?

Judicial system ripe for overhaul

Logistically speaking

As far away from closure as ever

Sub-par funding for science cause for debate

Will the tail wag the Trojan horse?

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