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Milei, Thatcher and the English Mamdani

Today 12:51 Zack Polanski – an environmental activist, gay, vegan and former actor – is gaining ground among young voters in the UK, making Britain’s Labour Party nervous as it watches Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform Party grow.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during the press conference after IAEA’s Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 2025.

INTERVIEW

Rafael Grossi, diplomat in running to head UN, warns of increased nuclear risk

22-11-2025 06:33 Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says nuclear policy of mutual dissuasion, which has worked for many decades, seems to be eroding; “The hypothesis of a nuclear conflict cannot be excluded,” he warns.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

‘Cuadernos’ corruption case – Cristina couldn’t not know

15-11-2025 05:00 In the ‘Cuadernos de las coimas’ corruption notebooks trial, there is a relationship between the facts and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner because bags of money went to her own home. If they were used “to fund politics” and not for her personal use, it is still a crime. At the very least, the former president is responsible for not having prevented it.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Interview

Andrés Malamud: ‘Milei’s bet on the United States is crazy, but not stupid’

11-11-2025 14:18 Political scientist says President Javier Milei’s alignment with the United States is a high-risk gambit: “If it works out, it’s the goal of the year.”

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OPINION & ANALYSIS

Two abysses

05-11-2025 10:29 Society voted no twice. No to the future being offered by Milei (September) and no to the past offered by Peronism (October). Dissatisfaction with everybody. In not opting for the alternatives to polarisation, the voters gave an extra life to the government and Peronism. A respite.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Maximiliano Pullaro celebrates victory in Santa Fe elections.

INTERVIEW

Maximiliano Pullaro: ‘The truth is people are doing very badly’

09-10-2025 08:57 Santa Fe Province governor and member of Provincias Unidas voices concern over unrest and criticises the government’s disconnect with the nation’s economic reality. “The President shows himself as a rockstar, when we’re not doing well,” he complains.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2025: ANALYSIS

Brow-beaten Milei nears Argentina's 'third year' syndrome

08-09-2025 20:48 Milei is still around 90 days short of the start of his third year, but the defeat in the Buenos Aires Province election means the countdown to the nationwide October 26 midterms is on.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2025

What’s at stake in Sunday’s election

05-09-2025 10:57 There is a lot riding on the legislative elections in Buenos Aires Province. In addition to being watched by the rest of the country, the results on September 7 will have an impact on the markets and all political actors.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OPINION & ANALYSIS

New songs and Peronism

10-05-2025 07:50 Kirchnerism has no lyrics for its new songs – every intervention by CFK against Milei is always geared to the economic terrain, but from the perspective of his collapse and not improving on his achievements.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Is Donald Trump good for Argentina?

15-03-2025 07:40 Trump’s new transactional and short-term economic order overlaps with a new gangster-style and hyper-materialistic political order.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

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Milei, Thatcher and the English Mamdani

Rafael Grossi, diplomat in running to head UN, warns of increased nuclear risk

‘Cuadernos’ corruption case – Cristina couldn’t not know

Andrés Malamud: ‘Milei’s bet on the United States is crazy, but not stupid’

Two abysses

Maximiliano Pullaro: ‘The truth is people are doing very badly’

Brow-beaten Milei nears Argentina's 'third year' syndrome

What’s at stake in Sunday’s election

New songs and Peronism

Is Donald Trump good for Argentina?

Marcelo Longobardi: ‘Milei’s conduct with journalists identical to Kirchners’

Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei has the problem of being completely dogmatic’

Alberto Fernández: ‘Fabiola has not grasped the dimensions of what she is saying’

‘Trump is the catalyst,’ agree former ambassadors to China

From PRO to Cambiemos… to Juntos por el Cambio or Juntos?

Martin Schulz: ‘The result of the war in Ukraine is decisive for the future of the EU’

Andrés ‘Cuervo’ Larroque ‘We are in one of the deepest crises in Peronism’s history’

Claudia Piñeiro: ‘I’ve never ever seen another president celebrate the tears of a rival’

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

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

Jorge Lanata: ‘President Milei has the right to speak and criticise, but not to say just anything’

Marcos Peña: ‘Our team lost the match, it wasn't just won by Milei’

Guillermo Dietrich: ‘I’m backing this government all I can so that it does well’

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

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

Emilce Cuda: ‘It’s a fantasy that we’re individuals, we’re in relationships with others’

Mariano Cúneo Libarona: ‘The necessary and urgent right now, the debatable goes to the Omnibus bill’

Rodolfo Barra: ‘Emergency decrees are for when the going gets tough’

Pablo Gerchunoff: ‘People voted for a scream of fury… inside it lies change’

Juan Grabois: ‘A disruption evidently captivated most Argentines’

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

President Alberto Fernández: ‘Milei should give Macri as wide a berth as possible’

Don't vote for Milei

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: ‘PRO today is allying itself with an extreme rightist’

Macri hates Massa more than Cristina and her Kirchnerites

The reconfiguration of the political map

Carlos Melconian: ‘I believe that there is an opportunity because we have touched bottom’

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

Luis Ignacio Brusco: Understanding why we vote differently

The imperious need to penalise denialism

Florencio Randazzo: ‘If Milei is so awful, you should ask the politicians what happened’

Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva: ‘The Pope wants to come to Argentina’

Alejandro Werner: ‘Trump would’ve backed Fernández and Biden would’ve Macri’

Alberto Fernández: ‘I’d like to have better relations with Cristina’

The serpent’s egg

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

Ranking Massa, Rodríguez Larreta and Bullrich on the Nolan Test (with ChatGPT)

Juan Grabois: ‘Massa is my internal rival but my political enemies are Bullrich and Morales’

Alfredo Cornejo: ‘People vote far more freely in the PASOs’

Fernando Straface: ‘There's genuine US concern about Chinese presence in the region'