News of kirchnerism

Scandal in Congress: Kirchnerite, libertarian deputies row ends session

03-07-2025 19:02 Chamber of Deputies session ends early with pushing and shoving between La Libertad Avanza and Kirchnerite legislators.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

What is a Supreme Court for?

14-06-2025 06:45 Cristina was a fading political star long before Argentina’s Supreme Court confirmed her conviction sentence.

by Marcelo J. García

Campaign comments

On a mission in omission

07-06-2025 06:34 Voting for provincial deputies in Misiones is more likely to be a landslide for the local ruling party than any electoral earthquake.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES CITY

Adorni hails ‘win for freedom,’ takes aim at PRO, Peronists

18-05-2025 22:35 Javier Milei gave the baton to his top spokesman and the candidate delivered; Manuel Adorni calls for allies to join La Libertad Avanza in order to “end Kirchnerism.”

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Milei’s ‘we want it all’ moment

21-12-2024 05:07 We’re early into the experiment. But Javier and Karina, along with star political advisor Santiago Caputo, are already imagining the “Milei era,” which should last at least eight years and include control of the Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires Province.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Party in both its meanings

14-12-2024 06:30 Depicting Edgardo Kueider as a pure Kirchnerite will not wash – not only has he delivered some key votes for the Milei government, he was also star spin doctor Santiago Caputo’s nominee to chair the bicameral intelligence commission.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Will Cristina Fernández de Kirchner attempt a comeback?

05-10-2024 06:21 As Otto von Bismarck famously said, “politics is the art of the possible.”

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Corruption starts with K

03-08-2024 13:58 Shortly after the restructuring of the spy agency, the Milei administration signed an emergency decree giving it an additional 120 billion pesos, roughly US$100 million.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CULTURE WARS

No more CCK – Milei government baptises ‘Palacio Libertad’

07-05-2024 21:39 National government says it will rename the Centro Cultural Kirchner as it moves to “depoliticise” iconic building that once housed Argentina’s Post Office.

Former president speaks out

Fernández de Kirchner accuses Milei of subjecting Argentines to ‘pointless sacrifice’

28-04-2024 09:25 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returns to political scene, slamming the "anarcho-colonialism" of Javier Milei's political project and accusing the President of submitting Argentines to a "pointless sacrifice."

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Kirchnerite tensions: New wave pushes for displacement of La Cámpora

16-04-2024 15:46 Disappointed with the inaction of those aligned with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a new line of Kirchnerite figures are knocking on Axel Kicillof's door and asking him to take control of the Peronist movement.

As I see it

The Kirchnerites have Milei in their sights

13-01-2024 06:21 The fate of the new government will depend largely on Milei’s ability to persuade people that the fearful emergency he goes on about is not just a figment of an overheated imagination but something terribly real.

by James Neilson

EDITORIAL

Decline and fall

28-10-2023 04:58 An internal crisis was always in the offing for Juntos por el Cambio but nobody was expecting the fragile unity to explode so openly within 48 hours.