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Sloppy seconds

11-09-2021 09:54 The PASO primaries have laid bare the intellectual vacuity of Argentina’s political class.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Still currents run deep

04-09-2021 10:23 While the pundits quite rightly remind us that it would be rash to extrapolate local results onto the national arena, the fact that Gustavo Valdés virtually trebled the votes for his veteran Peronist rival should send alarm-bells among the ruling coalition.

by Michael Soltys

PASO Primaries: Round 1

27-08-2021 23:26 It will be a tough election for the pan-Peronist coalition in the Province of Buenos Aires.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

A hatchet job for the perfect punching bag

21-08-2021 09:26 President Alberto’s hypocrisy will lower the count in the most populous electoral district of the nation, along with his pseudo-apology, and his subsequent backtracking. Yet, Alberto was chosen specifically for this reason: he’s the perfect punching bag.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Messy is the name of the game in general

07-08-2021 09:11 Recent U-turns in vaccine strategy and diplomacy not only transcend the medical sphere but might well end up having more impact beyond.

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

Alberto and Cristina reunite to chart economic course for campaign

14-07-2021 14:27 President Alberto Fernández and Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner huddled with Santiago Cafiero, Martín Guzmán and Axel Kicillof recently at the Olivos presidential residence. Sides agreed on no more austerity in order to inject money into upcoming electoral tussle.

by Rosario Ayerdi

Unions seek places on Frente de Todos lists as PASO deadline nears

09-07-2021 00:01 With the deadline for defining candidates drawing near, union leaders are once again seeking representation on the Peronist coalition’s slates.

Venezuela opposition group MUD cleared to stand in election

30-06-2021 09:01 Democratic Unity Roundtable, Venezuelan opposition coalition known as MUD, has been granted permission to contest regional elections in November after a three-year ban.

AMLO’s wings clipped with Mexico bloc set to lose super-majority

07-06-2021 13:00 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s coalition is on course to lose its super-majority in Mexico's lower house after key midterm elections, according to initial results.

Political crisis in El Salvador as lawmakers oust judges, attorney general

03-05-2021 13:44 A political storm has erupted in El Salvador after its Legislative Assembly, newly controlled by President Nayib Bukele's party, dismissed the attorney general and top judges deemed hostile to the populist leader.

Covid tsunami

10-04-2021 08:52 The second wave is here and it already looks challenging. A winter of discontent looms ahead of the midterm elections.

by Martín Gambarotta

Declare me innocent, or else

20-03-2021 07:48 Political power is now in the hands of individuals who are far more interested in the future of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her offspring than in the fate of the rest of the population.

by James Neilson

IMF sees upside in delaying Argentina deal after October

11-03-2021 14:08 IMF officials see some benefit in delaying a US$45-billion agreement with Argentina after the October midterms, with talks yielding little progress six months after they began.

What we learned this week: January 30 to February 6

06-02-2021 10:28 A selection of stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Alexei Navalny: Putin’s most prominent critic

06-02-2021 08:49 Poisoned and now imprisoned, 44-year-old Yale-educated anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny is the biggest thorn in Russian president’s side.

American carnage: Trump presidency careens toward violent end

09-01-2021 08:44 Four years after promising to banish “American carnage” in his inaugural address on the steps of the US Capitol, he brought it to the door of US democracy.

A freezing summer

09-01-2021 08:04 The government’s actions speak louder than his words – the elections above all else.

Argentina refuses to back OAS condemnation of Venezuela vote

12-12-2020 09:39 Alberto Fernández administration refuses to back Organisation of American States resolution denouncing last weekend’s vote as “fraudulent” and “neither free nor fair.”

Venezuela’s election facade helps push Juan Guaidó offstage

08-12-2020 08:31 Sunday’s feigned election in Venezuela, ending Juan Guaidó’s connection with the legislature that formed the basis of his claim to the presidency, may be what some need to rethink how to deal with the troubled nation.