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Jorge Fontevecchia

Cofundador de Editorial Perfil - CEO de Perfil Network.

Fernán Quirós: 'The average age of people in ICUs has gone down in this wave'

Yesterdat 00:30 Dr. Fernán Quirós discusses Covid-19 infections, deaths and the state of intensive care units. The Buenos Aires City Health Minister, who says he has a continuous dialogue with Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, says the most essential thing during the pandemic is to seek agreement and cooperation.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Health Minister Carla Vizzotti: 'What’s happening is a catastrophe'

01-05-2021 00:07 In a week of record deaths from Covid-19, the minister responsible for Argentina’s health system responds: Why there was no shutdown for Easter; Why classrooms should be shut now; What happened to the vaccine orders; What of lab links and relationships with Ginés González García and Hugo Sigman; The role of the media. A feature-length interview with Health Minister Carla Vizzotti.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Rafael Bielsa, Argentina’s current Ambassador to Chile.

INTERVIEW – PERIODISMO PURO

Rafael Bielsa: ‘Alberto Fernández is very far from being a puppet’

10-04-2021 07:42 Rafael Bielsa, Argentina’s current Ambassador to Chile, on the pandemic, the president, Peronism and bilateral relations.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Scottish historian and professor Niall Ferguson, pictured during his interview with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia.

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Niall Ferguson: ‘It's silly for the left to claim that austerity is conservative’

03-04-2021 07:49 Scottish historian, professor and brilliant polemicist Niall Ferguson on the coronavirus pandemic, the global economic outlook and the causes of Argentina’s economic failure.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Pedro Cahn: ‘If things get out of hand, more lockdowns may be necessary’

03-04-2021 07:14 Dr Pedro Cahn is the Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped, a major NGO devoted to the fight against HIV/AIDS. During the coronavirus pandemic, he has served as part of an expert committee advising the Presidency and the Health Ministry on how to combat the transmission of Covid-19.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

US political scientist Francis Fukuyama.

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Francis Fukuyama: ‘There’s similarities between populism of Trump and Kirchnerism’

27-03-2021 07:46 US political scientist Francis Fukuyama – perhaps the most important intellectual of the last 50 years – on ‘The End of History,’ the coronavirus pandemic and populism.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Luis Naidenoff: ‘Formosa is a model of oppression, domination and patronage’

20-03-2021 06:54 Leading Radical and Senate Minority Leader Luis Naidenoff on Formosa Province, Governor Gildo Insfrán and the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Diego Santilli, deputy mayor of Buenos Aires City.

PERIODISMO PURO – INTERVIEW

Diego Santilli: ‘I’d like Horacio Rodríguez Larreta as our presidential candidate’

13-03-2021 06:01 Buenos Aires City Deputy Mayor Diego Santilli on the future of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta’s “hands-on” leadership and security in the nation’s capital.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Brazilian president.

PERIODISMO PURO – INTERVIEW

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: ‘There are times which require us to move actively towards equality’

06-03-2021 08:40 Former Brazil president – the country’s first to be re-elected for a subsequent term – discusses Jair Bolsonaro, inequality, poverty and what it means a social democrat in the 21st century.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Marcela Losardo: “The solutions have to be judicial because such are the problems. The problems of the justice system have to be resolved by the justice system.”

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Marcela Losardo: 'Alberto Fernández has been preparing all his life for this job'

30-01-2021 07:46 Throughout the last 40 years, nobody has spent more time close to the president than his Justice Minister Marcela Losardo, his chief confidante.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Sergio Chodos, Executive Director for the Southern Cone at the IMF.

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Sergio Chodos: ‘The intention is to ask the IMF for financing in order to leave it’

17-10-2020 08:57 The visit of a mission team from the International Monetary Fund has begun a new chapter for Argentina and its deteriorating economy. Sergio Chodos, Executive Director for the Southern Cone at the IMF and the official perhaps closest to Economy Minister Martín Guzmán, says the government is seeking an agreement with the Fund, in order not to depend on it any longer.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Moisés Naím: 'Argentina is a world champion in political necrophilia'

03-10-2020 08:59 Arguably Venezuela’s most influential intellectual speaks about the crisis facing his country and the lessons it could teach other nations in the region: not to fall for the facile discourse of charlatans and to pay attention to sleeping authoritarianism in society.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Miguel Pesce: ‘A dollar at 130 pesos would inflict unbearable levels of poverty’

26-09-2020 08:45 Following a week of difficult announcements, Central Bank chief Miguel Pesce sits down for a feature-length interview to explain the government’s logic in what he describes as “very arduous situation, aggravated by the action of speculators.” Nevertheless, Pesce remains optimistic over 2021 growth, lower inflation and export possibilities.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Santiago Cafiero: ‘Macri sought to blame Argentine society for his own failures.’

12-09-2020 08:46 In a feature-length interview, Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero discusses Peronism past and present, the opposition, and what lies ahead for Argentina in the next two years.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO / INTERVIEW

Matías Kulfas: 'We believe in an active state, which complements the market'

29-08-2020 08:36 Argentina’s Productive Development Minister on post-pandemic Argentina, the state’s role in the economy and balancing public accounts.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Ricardo López Murphy: ‘Fernández inherited a much better situation than Macri did’

15-08-2020 09:49 Veteran politician, former economy and defence minister and 2003 presidential candidate Ricardo López Murphy on reform, inheritance, the deficit and why the coronavirus pandemic will produce the most severe recession in economic history.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Sabina Frederic: ‘Security means protecting people, not repression’

08-08-2020 08:37 During almost eight months leading the Security Ministry, social anthropologist and university professor Sabina Frederic has found herself under criticism from both Sergio Berni and Horacio Verbitsky. In a feature-length interview, she discusses those debates, Sergio Maldonado, Facundo Castro and why mediation should be prioritised over the violent use of force.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO / INTERVIEW

Hernán Lacunza: ‘We can’t reset the economy every four years, as we’ve been doing since 1945’

18-07-2020 08:30 Former finance minister Hernán Lacunza on Argentina’s debt restructuring efforts, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, inflation and more.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Mario Ishii: 'By late August we’ll be where we were in 2001'

11-07-2020 09:01 Mario Ishii, the mayor of José C. Paz, discusses the impact of the coronavirus crisis on one of the poorest districts in Greater Buenos Aires. The social situation, he warns, could be about to explode.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Economist Jeffrey Sachs spoke to Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia for an exclusive intervew.

PERIODISMO PURO / INTERVIEW

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘This is not a game for BlackRock to get an extra percentage point – that's absurd’

27-06-2020 08:29 US economist and public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs on Argentina’s debt restructuring talks, the Macri administration’s missteps and the fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Feature interview

Sérgio Moro: ‘I always acted with a clear conscience and impartially’

20-06-2020 09:15 Former Brazilian federal judge Sérgio Moro – who resigned as Justice and Public Security minister in late April, criticising President Jair Bolsonaro for “political interference” as he quit his post – on Lava Jato, corruption and censorship.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

EXTENDED INTERVIEW

Martín Guzmán: ‘The reality facing Argentina was not understood by creditors’

13-06-2020 09:06 Economy Minister Martín Guzmán on debt talks, sustainability, the IMF, the coronavirus pandemic, printing money and inflation.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Edmund Phelps, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was interviewed by Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia by videoconference.

PERIODISMO PURO / Interview

Edmund Phelps: 'It’s important to get a debt agreement that is feasible for Argentina'

10-06-2020 16:55 "The public has become aware that people of the bottom are in an extremely vulnerable situation. There has to be radical steps taken to address that problem," Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, tells Jorge Fontevecchia in an interview.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

FEATURE-LENGTH INTERVIEW

Ginés González García: ‘This is not a dictatorship of the infectologists’

30-05-2020 08:34 Three-time health minister, veteran doctor and specialist in public healthcare, Ginés González García is leading the country’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview with Jorge Fontevecchia, he discusses the lockdown, the hunt for a vaccine and what comes next for Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN INTERVIEW

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: ‘Argentina has the cards to renegotiate its debt’

23-05-2020 09:45 French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, gives his view on Argentina’s debt restructuring talks, the Fund’s leadership and wealth taxes.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

THE PANDEMIC: A GLOBAL VIEW

Bryan In-ho Kim: ‘People need to get used to social distancing in daily life’

16-05-2020 07:49 Dr Bryan In-ho Kim, senior researcher at Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), discusses the methods that helped South Korea achieve remarkable results in the fight against Covid-19.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Online interview between Fontevecchia and Wolf

WORLD

Martin Wolf: ‘This is potentially a hinge moment in history’

02-05-2020 08:25 Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, discusses the economic fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, in an exclusive interview with Perfil’s Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Fontevecchia interviews British journalist and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, Martin Wolf.

Periodismo Puro / Interview

Listen: Interview with Financial Times' chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf

25-04-2020 20:47 Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, discusses the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fall-out in an exclusive interview with Perfil co-founder Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OPINION

Force majeure

18-04-2020 10:08 An interview with a president should not be anything uncommon. But in this case the interview means something more. It is a measure of the scale and gravity of the crisis which the country is undergoing, reducing the past to insignificance.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

President Alberto Fernández sat down with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia for a two-hour interview at the Olivos presidential residence.

TWO HOURS WITH THE PRESIDENT

Alberto Fernández: ‘Every time I speak, I’m saying the truth – I don’t lie’

18-04-2020 08:14 In a feature-length interview, Argentina's president addresses the coronavirus pandemic and opens up about his private life and relationship with both Peronism and Radicalism, explaining why he is more a child of hippie culture than Peronist doctrine.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

MIGUEL ÁNGEL PESCE INTERVIEW

Miguel Pesce: ‘In this emergency, the mechanism is printing money’

11-04-2020 10:07 Central Bank chief Miguel Ángel Pesce on the economy, printing money, the coronavirus pandemic and the problems that lie ahead.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Lanata: “The government is playing for high stakes at great risk.”

JORGE LANATA INTERVIEW

Jorge Lanata: ‘It worries me that we’re always going back in time’

07-03-2020 08:48 Journalist and author Jorge Lanata on Macri, Cristina, his health and what lies ahead for Alberto Fernández’s future.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

“The worst thing that could have happened is the Province paying up without protest”, says Kicillof.

AXEL KICILLOF INTERVIEW

Kicillof: 'Macri’s austerity left the Province dying of hunger'

15-02-2020 08:47 Buenos Aires Province governor and former economy minister talks numbers, debt, payments and Peronist unity.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Former Bolivian president Evo Morales, pictured at the offices of Editorial Perfil SA.

EVO MORALES INTERVIEW

Evo Morales: ‘The US does not want me to return to Bolivia’

18-01-2020 09:48 Former president discusses Bolivia’s political crisis, why he has taken exile in Argentina – and whether 14 years was too long in power.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Directed by the English director Justin Webster, many journalists appear in the series, including our own reporter, Rodis Recalt.

CREATING NARRATIVES

Iran, Nisman and Netflix

11-01-2020 09:24 Documentaries can have such great power when it comes to building political narratives, much greater than that of journalism.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

SERGIO MASSA INTERVIEW

Massa: 'I’ve learnt that the collective comes before the personal'

27-09-2019 22:57 Sergio Massa, the Tigre Peronist who forms a key part of the Frente de Todos coalition, discusses Alberto Fernández, the Mauricio Macri administration, renewing ties with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and what lies ahead for Argentina.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto, President Mauricio Macri’s running-mate and for long years an ally of Alberto Fernández.

INTERVIEW: PERIODISMO PURO

Pichetto: 'Words like 'irreversible' are too rigid for Argentine politics.'

31-08-2019 00:55 From Peronist Senate stalwart to vice-presidential candidate. President Mauricio Macri’s running-mate, Miguel Ángel Pichetto explains why Juntos por el Cambio can still win in October.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Presidential candidates Mauricio Macri (left) and Alberto Fernández (right).

ANALYSIS: PASOs 2019

Macri, Fernández must begin transition of power now

12-08-2019 16:31 Alberto Fernández has still not woken up to the fact that he's the virtual president-elect. When he spoke on Sunday evening, upping the ante to gain even more votes in October, he spoke of "in the next two months." His problem starts now, in the next two days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Marcos Peña at Editorial Perfil’s offices in Barracas.

INTERVIEW WITH CABINET CHIEF MARCOS PEÑA

Marcos Peña: ‘Cristina represents a currently overrated minority’

18-05-2019 09:12 President Mauricio Macri’s influential Cabinet Chief on the race for the Casa Rosada, the state of the Cambiemos coalition and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

The grieta is its political failure and the economy its metastasis.

LA GRIETA ARGENTINA

La grieta and narcissim

20-04-2019 08:24 Staring down the chasm, gazing at the navel… Argentina and la grieta. An essay by Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Jorge Fontevecchia interviewed María Eugenia Vidal at Editorial Perfil’s offices in Barracas.

INTERVIEW WITH MARIA EUGENIA VIDAL

Vidal: 'I believe the toughest decisions have fallen on Mauricio'

30-03-2019 10:26 Buenos Aires Province Governor María Eugenia Vidal on la grieta, party politics, abortion, love and her relationship – and her differences – with President Mauricio Macri.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT?

Bolsonaro eyes Chile as a model for Brazil

05-01-2019 08:25 The question is whether the economic model of a country with a much smaller geography and economy is transferable to a continental nation like Brazil.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Between 2005 and 2007, Sturzenegger was a visiting professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

INTERVIEW WITH HEAD OF CENTRAL BANK

Sturzenegger: "I'm very comfortable with the government setting the pace"

03-02-2018 15:45 Head of the Central Bank Federico Sturzenegger on inflation, Lebacs, public spending and that press conference on December 28.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

JORGE FONTEVECCHIA ON PERFIL’S NEW PROJECT

A tribute to the Buenos Aires Herald

06-09-2017 20:10 Just one month after the 141-year-old English newspaper disappeared, Perfil is launching what aspires to be its successor.

by Jorge Fontevecchia