Analysing Argentina Another 100 days of solitude? 23-03-2024 06:30 If Javier Milei insists on tragedy, he might kill Argentina’s democracy – or vice-versa. He does not need to. by Marcelo J. García
FOOTBALL & POLITICS Boca election result is a victory for Riquelme and clubs nationwide 22-12-2023 13:47 Ibarra and Macri proceeded in a desperate campaign to link Boca’s legendary ex-playmaker with some sort of shadowy plot to construct the Xeneize as the last bastion of evil Kirchnerism. Their gambit backfired. by Dan Edwards
INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO President Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei should give Macri as wide a berth as possible’ 01-12-2023 15:04 Just days after meeting with his successor, Argentina’s outgoing president sits down to reflect on his four years of government, the challenges he faced and why he believes Javier Milei won last month’s run-off. by Jorge Fontevecchia
CAMPAIGN COMMENTS Method in his madness? 25-11-2023 14:16 Javier Milei’s solitary rise to the top from almost nowhere in a couple of years is more apparent than real. The key to this success is more like the solution to Agatha Christie’s 'Murder on the Orient Express' – they all did it. by Michael Soltys
ECONOMIC POLICY Dollarisation is medium-term goal, Luis Caputo tells bankers 24-11-2023 22:06 Luis Caputo, who is leading Javier Milei’s economic team during the transition, tells banking executives in Buenos Aires that currency controls won't be lifted immediately and that dollarisation is a medium-term goal.
POLITICS & FOOTBALL Riquelme says he will face Macri in battle for control for Boca 15-11-2023 16:14 Juan Román Riquelme, Boca's current vice-president, says he will run in December 2 elections; Retired playmaker will head a ticket facing a challenge from Andrés Ibarra and ex-president Mauricio Macri.
CAMPAIGN COMMENTS Hat-trick or the third wheel? 30-09-2023 05:07 Any win helps and far more so when the margin of Alfredo Cornejo’s victory in Mendoza surpassed all expectations. But does this injection of enthusiasm reviving optimism reach the dimensions of a game-changer for Patricia Bullrich? by Michael Soltys
INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO Florencio Randazzo: ‘If Milei is so awful, you should ask the politicians what happened’ 23-09-2023 05:55 Florencio Randazzo, vice-presidential candidate for Hacemos por Nuestro País, on why he is “ashamed” of the current government, how the main coalitions benefit from polarisation and why Javier Milei’s rhetoric isn’t so irrational. by Jorge Fontevecchia
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT Alberto Fernández: ‘I’d like to have better relations with Cristina’ 24-08-2023 18:14 In an interview, Argentina’s president speaks about the country's potential incorporation into the BRICS bloc of emerging market economies and addresses the election and his role in it, assuring: “Milei is Macri and Macri is Milei.” by Jorge Fontevecchia
Campaign comments Umpteen candidates in search of an author 03-06-2023 06:08 If Horacio Rodríguez Larreta had again thwarted Mauricio Macri plans by imposing Fernán Quirós over Jorge Macri, this would have been three strikes and out in the PRO founder’s esteem – a hostility potentially fatal to the outgoing City mayor’s presidential ambitions.
ELECTION 2023 María Eugenia Vidal drops out of presidential race 04-05-2023 20:54 Ex-Buenos Aires Province governor pulls out of race for Casa Rosada and calls for unity in opposition coalition; Vidal vows to continue “working for and to recover Argentina.”
As I see it What now for Mauricio Macri? 31-03-2023 14:08 Now that Macri has made public his decision to sit out the next presidential elections, his friends, enemies and the many whose opinions about him are mixed are asking what he intends to do in the coming months and years. by James Neilson
ELECTIONS 2023 Rodríguez Larreta kicks off PRO’s tense race for presidential nod 23-02-2023 20:44 PRO party front-runner and Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta officially declares his intention to run for president with ‘anti-grieta’ video; Battle-lines drawn as opposition politicians clash over route to Casa Rosada.
POLITICS Cold war between Rodríguez Larreta, Bullrich heats up 16-02-2023 01:33 Two leading PRO party figures – Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich – are immersed in an opinion poll battle as they jostle for position ahead of the August PASO primaries. The City Mayor knows that the typical UCR voter is closer to him, but former security minister is making Radical hardliners her focus. by Ezequiel Spillman
DOMESTIC REACTION Opposition uses Brazil crisis to point finger at Alberto Fernández 13-01-2023 01:12 Politicians on both sides of the aisle use last weekend's turmoil in Brasilia to raise the spectre of unrest in Argentina this electoral year.