News of alliances

Bankrupt Venezuela cedes control of companies

16-02-2021 18:14 Dozens of confiscated firms have been transferred – but not sold – to private operators in so-called strategic alliances.

EDITORIAL

A month is an even longer time in politics

09-11-2019 12:11 His future Cabinet remains a mystery while his road map for a stricken economy does not go beyond a broad socio-economic agreement, with a 2020 wage and price ceiling of 35 percent widely floated but far from confirmed.

EDITORIAL

Courting disarray

05-10-2019 11:32 The Mendoza result was welcome from at least two angles – the resounding victory of a Macri coalition ally (only the second this year) brings us slightly closer to a contested election while the crushing defeat of the ardently Kirchnerite opposition candidate distances Alberto Fernández further from being a puppet of his running-mate, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

EDITORIAL

The cast thins and the plot thickens

15-06-2019 09:54 Until now the battleground has been provincial elections (and will continue to be so tomorrow in Santa Fe, San Luis and Tierra del Fuego) with a strong case for arguing that this tail is wagging the dog in the formation of alliances.

AS I SEE IT

Peronism rules, OK?

15-06-2019 09:14 To justify his decision to join forces with Macri, Pichetto insists that on this occasion the electorate faces a stark choice between democracy and authoritarianism.

by James Neilson