News of provincial

ELECTIONS 2023

Next electoral tests: Santa Fe, Chaco and Mendoza

23-08-2023 21:58 After the national PASO primaries, September arrives with three key provincial elections that will shape the new political map. Santa Fe, Chaco and Mendoza will choose their next governors with Jorge Capitanich’s re-election hopes in doubt.

by Pablo Varela

ELECTIONS 2023 – ANALYSIS

Has support for Milei reached a ceiling?

13-06-2023 16:09 The libertarian lawmaker’s brand remains strong but support for his presidential candidacy is failing to translate to his local representatives in the provincial ballots. Has Javier Milei’s support hit a ceiling?

by Ramón Indart

DEBT INTERVENTION

Córdoba to meet debt payment after court blocks capital controls

07-06-2023 17:38 Argentina's Córdoba Province to meet debt payment after a court blocked government's latest capital controls.

ELECTIONS 2023

‘Super Sunday’ elections continue run of ruling party wins

15-05-2023 18:14 Peronist governors in the provinces of Tierra del Fuego, La Pampa and Salta returned for new terms.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

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

POLITICS

Buenos Aires provincial legislature approves mayoral re-election for 2023

31-12-2021 00:50 Mayors, lawmakers and councillors in Buenos Aires Province can now seek a third term in office after provincial deputies speed through vote modifying law preventing their re-election after two consecutive terms in office.

by James Grainger

special report

‘Tío Gildo’: a modern-day caudillo in the heart of South America

05-11-2021 18:34 The astute politics of Formosa Governor Gildo Insfrán have helped the 70-year-old to climb to the top of his province’s government and stay there for more than three decades – a record in contemporary Argentina. With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, the intensity of his administration’s social control led to clashes with protesters, highlighting the institutional flaws that have permitted him to sustain his grip on power.

by Cindy Monzón

CRIME & SECURITY

Horror in Caseros: Police kill kidnapper, find captive dead

05-10-2021 22:03 Ten-hour ordeal in Caseros ends with kidnapper Alejandro Maldonado gunned down by Grupo Halcón crack unit of the Buenos Aires provincial police. Three officers wounded, man taken hostage found down.