EDITORIAL 48 years and 100 days later 23-03-2024 06:34 Tomorrow is the 48th anniversary of the 1976 military coup, while last Tuesday marked the classic first 100 days of the Javier Milei Presidency.
EDITORIAL Belling terror 16-03-2024 06:41 The solution to drug crime bloodshed in Rosario is far from being as brutally simple as the problem, as some would seem to think.
Editorial The Pact of May (or maybe?) 09-03-2024 06:30 This month and the next stand to be the eye of a perfect storm – a rare moment in the always abnormal Argentine economy which is a nightmare for spenders and savers alike.
EDITORIAL Pouring oil on the flames 02-03-2024 05:57 If the spark that lit the fire was the threat of Chubut’s PRO Governor Ignacio Torres to cut off all oil and gas unless the cutbacks were reversed, this might appear a wild outburst – but it was less random and accidental than it might seem.
EDITORIAL Poverty also in the debate 24-02-2024 06:08 Discussing figures is one thing and denialism quite another – this applies to the human rights debate and it also applies to poverty.
EDITORIAL The summer of our discontent 17-02-2024 06:14 There is every reason to fear a vicious circle of devaluation and inflation continuing.
EDITORIAL Who crashed the omnibus? 10-02-2024 06:47 The government must be considered the chief architect of the self-destruction of its megalomaniac omnibus bill.
EDITORIAL An omnibus not for everybody 02-02-2024 14:46 Uncertainty is by no means limited to the final outcome of Javier Milei's bill in Congress.
EDITORIAL The four horsemen 27-01-2024 07:35 The general strike should be deemed not so much a success or a failure as a somewhat irrelevant blip within what gives every indication of being a long hot summer and a traumatic year.
EDITORIAL More holes than a Swiss cheese? 20-01-2024 06:57 No matter the distance from home, Argentine leaders always seem to be speaking to domestic galleries when addressing international audiences.
EDITORIAL Prices out of the market 12-01-2024 15:24 President Milei wants to avoid the failures of Mauricio Macri’s gradualism but the shock approach might have too short a fuse.
Editorial His own worst enemy? 06-01-2024 06:06 By multiplying the contents in its economic deregulation package, the government has only multiplied the already formidable obstacles lying ahead in Congress, adding the physical impossibility of finding the time to the stiff challenges of gaining approval with only tiny caucuses of almost embarrassingly raw legislators.
EDITORIAL An electoral 2023 ends... and an electric 2024 begins 31-12-2023 08:14 The standard greeting of “Happy New Year” would represent wishful thinking rather than any real expectations when it comes to 2024, as President Javier Milei would be the first to insist.
EDITORIAL Will crunch come to Grinch? 23-12-2023 06:55 While opinions are divided on whether Milei is finally transforming Argentina into a modern country or going disastrously wrong, there is a third option – that he is going nowhere in particular.
EDITORIAL The lion enters his jungle 16-12-2023 06:03 Milei cannot be accused of not warning us that things would get much worse before they got better – what he did not say was how he would be moving in the opposite direction of the firebrand rhetoric he deployed during his pre-presidential existence.
EDITORIAL Exit Alberto... and enter Milei 09-12-2023 08:01 Milei has to be seen as a work in progress – even if many would see him as a piece of work. But one thing is certain, he is where the buck stops, as from today.
EDITORIAL The beginning of the end? 02-12-2023 10:18 If the popular vote failed to rally to defend acquired rights against Milei’s chainsaw, it is because those rights have been emptied for too many people falling outside the system.
EDITORIAL Destination unknown 25-11-2023 13:34 Milei is a man of multiple contradictions too numerous for this space but he is about to face the biggest contradiction of them all – the outsider is days away from going inside.
EDITORIAL A long road ends and a journey begins 18-11-2023 06:08 Nothing ends irreversibly tomorrow – rather than any apocalypse now, it needs to be seen within the grander context of these four continuing decades of democracy.
EDITORIAL When two’s not company but three’s still a crowd 04-11-2023 05:00 A run-off normally reduces politics to its purest binary logic as a simple either/or proposition but the upcoming showdown between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei is rather more complex.
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.
EDITORIAL Tomorrow never knows 21-10-2023 05:46 Tomorrow is the time to go beyond day-day thinking and ponder the next four years.
EDITORIAL We’ve got the blues again 14-10-2023 05:20 Regardless of whether Milei is an economic terrorist or whether the government is the architect of its own destruction, the problems caused by the extreme volatility of this week’s four-digit dollar are all too real with panic price increases across the board.
EDITORIAL Of dirty money and ‘dirty wars’ 07-10-2023 06:40 With corruption being rubbed in its face by Insaurralde’s Marbella yacht jaunt and with the ballot-box in only a fortnight’s time as a readymade outlet, how will the citizenry react?
EDITORIAL The poverty of politics 30-09-2023 05:00 One can only tremble at what levels poverty might reach for the second half of this year after last month’s double-digit inflation.
EDITORIAL Of electoral and constitutional triangles 23-09-2023 05:05 Winning on October 22 will not be the end of the story.
EDITORIAL Cheaper by the dozen? 16-09-2023 05:47 While there is more than one reading of Sergio Massa’s tax cuts, all lead to more inflation. If one side of political polarisation blames the fiscal deficit for rising prices and the other business greed, both are simplistic.
EDITORIAL It’s not just the economy, stupid! 09-09-2023 05:25 In the last general elections in 2019 PASO primary winner Alberto Fernández was seconded by a woman whom nobody underestimated and today’s PASO primary winner Milei is seconded by a woman who perhaps should not be underestimated either.
EDITORIAL Whither the plan, any plan? 02-09-2023 06:17 The disintegration of Sergio Massa’s electioneering package would seem to confirm that we are now in the embers of the current government but does the problem end there?
EDITORIAL Blasts from the past? 26-08-2023 03:03 An often paranoid country’s attention being seized by the threat of mass lootings is understandable enough as evoking the 2001-2002 meltdown but it distracts attention from more potentially substantial developments.
EDITORIAL Primary Avalanche Shatters Order 19-08-2023 08:21 Argentina’s general election is still nine weekends away but it has been turned on its head.
EDITORIAL A nation votes and reality bites 10-08-2023 23:39 A brutal campaign brought the PASO primary campaign to a shuddering halt midweek – this black swan could end up resetting the central question of this election.
EDITORIAL The price of victory 06-08-2023 19:09 The two main coalitions in this election are very differently poised with a battered Peronist government already coming up with its answer for better or for worse.
EDITORIAL A parlous parliament 15-07-2023 06:53 Congress might be virtually ignored in this election campaign and yet its pivotal role should not be underestimated by any of the presidential candidates.
EDITORIAL Schools for scandal 07-07-2023 13:05 An eternal orphan of election campaigns, education has started to creep into public discussion despite stiff competition from the usual headlines.
EDITORIAL Man of two worlds 01-07-2023 08:41 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown but even more so when it wears two hats with the crown still distant.
EDITORIAL Crime time versus electoral timetables 17-06-2023 06:01 If nature abhors a vacuum, democratic politics also needs new men and women to fill its leadership vacuum.
EDITORIAL Back to the future? 10-06-2023 06:26 That famous “Begone with them all” 2001 slogan of anti-system outrage against politicians is now more in the air than at any time since then, while today’s currency seems to be entering irreversibly into a similar terminal phase.
EDITORIAL Slow boat to China 03-06-2023 06:12 All policy here is driven by the desperation arising from the parlous state of Central Bank reserves.
EDITORIAL Are 20 years really nothing? 27-05-2023 06:54 Those who expect a direct correlation between electoral success and economic growth would find Argentina again bucking the trend in the last 20 years.
EDITORIAL April showers bring no May flowers 20-05-2023 07:00 There can be no doubt that inflation is public enemy number one.
Editorial Much ado about almost nothing 13-05-2023 09:07 One constant of the current administration has been to prioritise the political and the judicial over the economic and the social, with this week a case in point.
EDITORIAL The Book Fair as today’s Aleph 06-05-2023 06:21 There is a case for saying that the Buenos Aires International Book Fair itself is an Aleph of Argentine today.
EDITORIAL Bucking the trend or a new weight for the peso? 29-04-2023 05:41 The giddy oscillations of parallel exchange rates and the relentless acceleration of prices are moving too fast to leave any margin for gradualism, thus making shock treatment inevitable.
EDITORIAL Third way, third-rate or third world? 22-04-2023 07:13 When the only certainty is uncertainty, any logic evaporates. The prevailing mood in the build-up to this year’s elections is more like mindless panic.
EDITORIAL Means and ends 15-04-2023 06:44 Politicians blame each other and the citizenry blames the politicians, but perhaps everybody needs to focus on finding some constructive alternatives.
EDITORIAL Slaughter in La Matanza 08-04-2023 06:32 What made Daniel Barrientos’s murder such a major issue was not the bus-driver’s cruel end but the backlash to the crime wave crossing the line.
EDITORIAL Paint it black – beyond the White House 01-04-2023 06:07 The White House meeting and Macri’s bombshell announcement dominated last week’s headlines but neither in truth do very much to modify the basic picture.
EDITORIAL Is no memory sacred? 25-03-2023 06:00 Despite the increasing distance from the 1976 military coup on its 47th anniversary, Memory Day cannot be consigned to the past because it is all about impunity, which also belongs to the present and future. v