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Elisa Carrió: ‘Friends say to me please don’t speak out – no, I won’t be complicit’

11-05-2024 06:48 Veteran politician and founder of the Coalición Cívica-ARI on President Javier Milei, why the middle class must react to austerity and why she wants a comeback in Congress.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Emilio Monzó: ‘Today fear is so strong that it has wiped out leaders with identity’

04-05-2024 06:38 Ex-lower house speaker and national deputy for Buenos Aires Province on the first 100 days of President Javier Milei’s government, the future of Juntos por el Cambio and why the state isn’t a criminal enterprise.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

06-04-2024 06:09 Senator and UCR chair on why the mega DNU emergency decree was unconstitutional, President Milei’s economic plan and Radical renewal.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Silvia Labayrú: ‘I was the first, I believe, to give birth at ESMA’

17-02-2024 06:43 Silvia Labayrú is a survivor of one of Argentina’s darkest places during the 1976-1983 era of state terrorism. Held at the ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School, which served as a clandestine detention centre during the dictatorship’s rein of terror, she was kidnapped, tortured and raped several times during her captivity. In a feature interview, she recalls her experience and reveals the horrors she suffered during those black days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Juan Grabois: ‘A disruption evidently captivated most Argentines’

23-12-2023 06:46 Lawyer, social leader and former presidential candidate Juan Grabois on Javier Milei, the government’s economic emergency measures and receiving criticism from both sides.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Ramiro Marra: ‘The economic future will be very difficult in the short term’

16-12-2023 06:01 Buenos Aires City lawmaker and former mayoral candidate Ramiro Marra on La Libertad Avanza, his relationship with Javier Milei and why he isn’t a member of the new president’s government.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Gabriel Rubinstein: ‘A fiscal surplus, sustained over time, is the key to start solving inflation’

14-10-2023 05:49 Argentina’s Economic Policy Secretary Gabriel Rubinstein presents the case for the ruling coalition, argues that inflation is slowing from its post-PASO devaluation-led peak and highlights the importance of the consensus implicit in all the political parties involved in the electoral race.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Luis Ignacio Brusco: Understanding why we vote differently

30-09-2023 05:36 Psychiatrist, neurologist and researcher, dean of the UBA Medical Faculty and Argentine Neuropsychiatric Association, MD and PhD, discusses why we vote differently and the cerebral functions which enter into decision-making.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Sabino Vaca Narvaja: ‘We look to a world which no longer exists, a Eurocentric world’

29-07-2023 06:29 Sabino Vaca Narvaja, Argentina’s ambassador to China, on bilateral relations with Beijing, why trade ties must be deepened and the need to rethink the Foreign Ministry and our approach to the East.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Carlos Pagni: 'If I talk to Peter and not to Paul, that would bore me.'

15-07-2023 06:18 Carlos Pagni, Argentina’s most influential journalist, on the legacy of the 2001 crisis, talking to both sides and why he’d rather untie than cut knots.

Martín Guzmán: ‘Abandoning the currency never did anybody any good’

10-06-2023 06:27 Argentina’s former economy minister on tackling inflation, unifying the exchange rate regime, the IMF debt deal he negotiated and what happens after the October election.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Patricia Bullrich: ‘I’m carrying out a campaign of truth’

26-05-2023 17:00 Presidential hopeful and former security minister on having the character to lead, the challenges facing Argentina and how she wants to change the country.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Aníbal Fernández: ‘I understand and share the president’s view on re-election’

29-04-2023 05:06 Argentina’s security minister on Alberto Fernández’s decision to end his re-election bid, his rocky relationship with Máximo Kirchner and La Cámpora and why he says the things he says.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Juan Schiaretti: ‘Fiscal balance should not entail extreme austerity’

22-04-2023 06:29 Three-term Córdoba Province governor on transcending ‘la grieta,’ why Peronism must split from Kirchnerism and why export duties on the agricultural sector should be removed.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Pope Francis: ‘Reaching my age in good health is a grace but I don’t know how long it will last’

17-03-2023 07:41 A special interview with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the leader of the Catholic Church, to mark the tenth anniversary of his papacy. A historic interview for a historic personality.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Monsignor Oscar Vicente Ojea: ‘Pope Francis bothers the elites’

10-03-2023 10:58 Monsignor Oscar Vicente Ojea, the head of the Argentine Synod and one of the persons closest to Pope Francis, discusses the pontiff’s decade leading the Catholic Church.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘I do not see any clear government plan to lower inflation’

20-01-2023 12:53 Buenos Aires City Mayor and likely 2023 presidential hopeful Horacio Rodríguez Larreta on the Supreme Court’s federal revenue-sharing ruling, next year’s election and developments from the last 12 months.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Sergio Massa: ‘Argentina is a country which has a lot to offer a world in crisis’

14-01-2023 06:38 In his first long interview since assuming office as Argentina’s ‘super economy minister,’ Sergio Massa analyses his first few months in office and outlines his goals for 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Patricia Bullrich: ‘Alberto Fernández, after the role he has played, cannot run again’

12-11-2022 07:24 PRO party chair and 2023 presidential hopeful on candidacies, Mauricio Macri’s role moving forward and the failed attack on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

by Jorge Fontevecchia