News of history

The maybes of May

14-05-2022 00:01 Today’s anniversary is nowhere in the current agenda with plenty of issues to absorb our attention, yet stopping to recall the Menem years would not go amiss.

by Michael Soltys

END OF AN ERA

Mercado de Liniers cattle market closes after 122 years of trading

13-05-2022 16:51 Traditional Mercado de Liniers cattle market, in the heart of Buenos Aires, finally closes its doors ahead of its move to Cañuelas.

And that reminds me

Supreme Courts are caught, not tort

29-04-2022 17:03 Phobias against independent justice are far from being a uniquely Kirchnerite vice.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me

No omelette from Easter eggs

16-04-2022 00:02 The most memorable Easter would undoubtedly be 1987 – rocked by Aldo Rico’s Campo de Mayo carapintada Army mutiny.

by Michael Soltys

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Foreign to the Ministry

25-03-2022 11:48 Caf is to international relations what decaf is to coffee.

by Michael Soltys

IRISH CULTURE

Emerald Isle meets the Silver River

11-03-2022 10:57 Book review: Irlanda y la Argentina del siglo XX: Diplomacia, diáspora, Iglesia Católica, derechos humanos y la guerra de Malvinas; by Dermot Keogh.

by Michael Soltys

UKRAINE CONFLICT

Vladimir Putin's long obsession with Ukraine

25-02-2022 00:02 Russian leader has repeatedly called into question the idea of distinct Ukrainian identity and statehood; Observers say desire for revenge deepened as NATO and the EU expanded into countries once dominated by Moscow.

IMF DEBT TALKS

Argentina and the IMF: still bound in a love-hate relationship

21-12-2021 14:52 Argentina has long had a stormy relationship with the International Monetary Fund. Twenty years after a deep economic, political and social crisis shook the country, the nation is again traversing a tense financial patch.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russia taking 'sharp' dictatorial turn in closing Memorial, says rights group

17-11-2021 12:57 Russia moving to shut down the country's top human rights group Memorial shows that the Kremlin has taken a "sharp" dictatorial turn, says one of the leading organisation's founding members.

And that reminds me

Veep on the beep

05-11-2021 18:01 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has repeatedly said over the years in the course of lengthy speeches that she does not believe that there is any such thing as coincidence.

by Michael Soltys

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Price controls without IDEA(s)

16-10-2021 00:01 The holes in price controls are an all too familiar story in Argentina. All sorts of routes for bypassing them, but the ultimate problem confounding price controls is that even their success against all the odds also contains the seeds of failure.

by Michael Soltys

COMMUNITY

American Club of Buenos Aires falls victim to the pandemic

09-10-2021 12:58 After 103 years of history, The American Club of Buenos Aires is finally closing its doors. Hit hard by the pandemic-related closure imposed upon it, the iconic institution has been finally forced into bankruptcy.

by A Member

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Julio María Sanguinetti: ‘The Kirchners were very tough on us Uruguayans’

27-08-2021 21:37 Former Uruguay president Julio María Sanguinetti on his nation and Argentina’s parallel lives and paths, political debate and disagreement, and sending a civic message.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

PASO, step by step

31-07-2021 00:39 Plenty of rhetoric about democratising political representation and restoring transparency to politics, but electoral miscalculation was the exclusive reason for the PASO primaries.

by Michael Soltys

PHOTO FEATURE

Liniers cattle market: last memory of a rural Buenos Aires

26-07-2021 08:00 Liniers cattle market prepares to close its doors, ahead of move to Cañuelas, after more than a century in Mataderos.

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Mightier than the dollar

24-07-2021 00:34 The successive fates of the austral and convertibility would suggest that Argentina’s currency is like Icarus – the closer it flies to the sun, the harder the economy crashes.

by Michael Soltys

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Mariano Macri: ‘Unmasking Mauricio is fundamental for me’

24-07-2021 00:14 Mariano Macri, the younger brother of former president Mauricio Macri, on their father Franco, SOCMA and why “politics and business life are not compatible.”

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ENVIRONMENT

CO₂ reaches its highest level in more than four million years

08-06-2021 15:43 Based on geological evidence collected over the six decades scientists have been tracking atmospheric CO₂, this year's peak appears to be the highest in as long as 4.5 million years.

And that reminds me…

Covid is not the only c-word

05-06-2021 00:29 World Environment Day is upon us and climate change takes centre stage.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me…

When beef is a beef

22-05-2021 09:51 Back in 2006 the dollars from the commodity price boom perhaps gave Argentina the luxury of being able to sacrifice one of its export markets but that luxury does not exist today.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me...

The name of the rose

15-05-2021 15:33 All politics is local, it is often said, and socialism does have its pockets in Argentina, of which the late Lifschitz represented by far the largest, the province of Santa Fe.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me...

Nothing more supreme than uncertainty

08-05-2021 00:01 Guzmán is not the first economy minister to be humiliated by political priorities and nor will he be the last.

by Michael Soltys

LONG READ

Austria's newest citizens reclaim birthright stolen by the Nazis

03-05-2021 12:09 Almost 76 years after the end of the Holocaust, the descendants of those forced out of Austria by the Nazis are reclaiming the nationality stolen from their refugee ancestors.

And that reminds me…

From cultural to dead cows

24-04-2021 09:58 The palindrome province of Neuquén features the paradox of supreme political stability with spasmodic social upheavals.

by Michael Soltys

NAZI GERMANY

Evil on trial: 60th anniversary of Eichmann in the dock

09-04-2021 09:54 For four months in 1961 the barbarism of Nazi Germany was focused on the gaunt bespectacled figure of Adolf Eichmann, standing alone in a dock in Jerusalem.

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Francis Fukuyama: ‘There’s similarities between populism of Trump and Kirchnerism’

27-03-2021 07:46 US political scientist Francis Fukuyama – perhaps the most important intellectual of the last 50 years – on ‘The End of History,’ the coronavirus pandemic and populism.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

BIDEN INAUGURATION

‘Democracy has prevailed’: Joe Biden sworn-in as 46th US president

20-01-2021 14:10 Joe Biden on Wednesday became the 46th president of the United States, vowing a "new day" for the United States after four years of tumult under Donald Trump who in an extraordinary final act snubbed the inauguration.

BOOK REVIEW

Imperfect yet invaluable contribution to Irish-Argentine studies

19-12-2020 09:18 In recent years, there has been an unexpected revival of published works on Irish Argentina. This latest effort, by ex-BBC radio presenter and presenter Patrick Speight is a serious and different contribution.

by Juan José Delaney for the Times

Palaeontology

Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice

02-12-2020 18:27 Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid crashed into Earth. What most people don't know is that more than 100 million years earlier, another climate change cataclysm devastated a different set of dinosaur species, with many going extinct.

UNITED STATES

Of presidents and health, US history replete with secrecy, lies

03-10-2020 15:38 Throughout US history, an uncomfortable truth has emerged: Presidents have lied about their health.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Volkswagen pay-out to Brazil regime victims reopens debate on justice

25-09-2020 12:31 Volkswagen confirms it has signed a historic deal with the Brazilian state and federal prosecutors to pay US$6.4 million in compensation for its part in atrocities of military dictatorship.

AS I SEE IT

Strolling towards the exit

18-07-2020 09:55 Extinction is staring many communities in the face, yet few find the thought that all they presumably value could be about to die at all disturbing.

by James Neilson

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Brazil's new education minister resigns over CV 'lies'

01-07-2020 09:15 Carlos Alberto Decotelli, the first black person to be appointed to the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, resigns only five days after he was appointed amid accusations that he lied over his academic record.

Killing of George Floyd

Historical figures reassessed around globe after Floyd death

12-06-2020 15:39 In the midst global protests in response to the killing of George Floyd in the US on May 25, debates have been reignited concerning commemorating controversial historical figures in statues and memorials throughout the world.

News of history

The maybes of May

Mercado de Liniers cattle market closes after 122 years of trading

Supreme Courts are caught, not tort

No omelette from Easter eggs

Foreign to the Ministry

Emerald Isle meets the Silver River

Vladimir Putin's long obsession with Ukraine

Argentina and the IMF: still bound in a love-hate relationship

Russia taking 'sharp' dictatorial turn in closing Memorial, says rights group

Veep on the beep

Price controls without IDEA(s)

American Club of Buenos Aires falls victim to the pandemic

Julio María Sanguinetti: ‘The Kirchners were very tough on us Uruguayans’

PASO, step by step

Liniers cattle market: last memory of a rural Buenos Aires

Mightier than the dollar

Mariano Macri: ‘Unmasking Mauricio is fundamental for me’

CO₂ reaches its highest level in more than four million years

Covid is not the only c-word

When beef is a beef

The name of the rose

Nothing more supreme than uncertainty

Austria's newest citizens reclaim birthright stolen by the Nazis

From cultural to dead cows

Evil on trial: 60th anniversary of Eichmann in the dock

Francis Fukuyama: ‘There’s similarities between populism of Trump and Kirchnerism’

‘Democracy has prevailed’: Joe Biden sworn-in as 46th US president

Imperfect yet invaluable contribution to Irish-Argentine studies

Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice

Of presidents and health, US history replete with secrecy, lies

Volkswagen pay-out to Brazil regime victims reopens debate on justice

Strolling towards the exit

Brazil's new education minister resigns over CV 'lies'

Historical figures reassessed around globe after Floyd death

Study: One in four young people in Argentina neither study nor work

Hunt for lithium sparks frantic rush into Argentina's mountains

Argentina moves closer to joining BRICS group

Inflation a severe risk to Latin America's stability, warn analysts at Davos

Government relaxes FX rules for companies to boost Vaca Muerta development

A pesar de representar a la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, la diputada de Milei gastó todos los pasajes aéreos del Estado

Tiroteo en Texas: quién era Salvador Ramos, el adolescente que exhibía armas en sus redes y asesinó a 21 personas

Luis Juez lapidó a la Corte por el caso de la fiscal Goyeneche: “Si tuviera un poco más de huevos, podría intervenir”

“A Spinetta no solo lo frustró la experiencia de Invisible, si no del rock”: la mirada del autor de “Tigres en el Lluvia”

El neurólogo que murió en el incendio del departamento de Felipe Pettinato tenía rastros de "líquido acelerante" en el cuerpo