News of analysis

Milei’s money man shuns foreign markets after failed bond binge

03-08-2026 18:27 Luis Caputo previously tapped foreign bond markets again and again, earning the moniker “serial borrower” from his critics. But nowadays, he's not selling bonds overseas.

In defence of Argentine culture and football

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by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei opens door to electric cars as Musk's Tesla firms up arrival plans

20-07-2026 14:10 Argentina’s car market is undergoing a silent but fast-moving revolution. While the world's most eccentric mobility brand, Elon Musk’s Telsa, prepares for its arrival in the national market, the landscape has already been transformed by new Asian giants.

by Eugenia Muzio

Hiding behind the World Cup, Milei siblings restructure their government

18-07-2026 06:50 The World Cup provided the Milei administration a much-needed breather after three months under siege. Javier and Karina Milei are learning by doing, but by doing so they are slowly but surely resembling what they initially promised to battle.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

World Cup culture wars and the legend of Messi

11-07-2026 09:32 World Cups don’t occur in a vacuum. Rather, they are an integral part of the construction of cultural subjectivity across the globe given the prevalence and capillarity of football. Argentina’s central role in global football and its obsessed population add complexity and intensity.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Mundial trumps Trump

11-07-2026 00:07 ‘The Donald’ had bullied obsequious FIFA president Gianni Infantino into nixing a red card for the home team’s top scorer – an obscene subordination of the beautiful game to power politics.

by Michael Soltys

Corruption scandals push Milei toward Argentina establishment he vilified

01-07-2026 12:37 President Javier Milei rode to power vowing to destroy the political elite he derided as “the caste.” Now, after a string of corruption scandals, he’s turning to one of its most recognisable figures.

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Milei’s ethics

27-06-2026 00:48 Milei has a militant and narrow world view that he’s tied to a vision that integrates AI and tech billionaires. Those same players have a global agenda that they will pursue, and Argentina will only be part of that plan for as long as it is useful for them.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Minimum wage has lost 40% of its purchasing power under Milei

23-06-2026 12:07 Basic income for registered workers has plunged against November 2023 to levels even inferior to the 2001 crisis, according to a report by UBA Buenos Aires University’s Economics Faculty. Economic growth produces winners but they are not a majority.

by Ezequiel Orlando

World Cup blues in Messi and Milei’s Argentina

20-06-2026 05:59 The World Cup provides partial reprieve for nearly six weeks, especially if Messi & Co are in it for a deep run. Politics, though, continues its course, and Adorni is coming up to the chopping block.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Adorni asset declaration shows wealth grew 45-fold in 2024

19-06-2026 11:07 Cabinet chief’s documentation attempts to explain an astronomical rise in his net worth. His legal strategy and mounting complications in Congress.

by Pablo Varela

The Milei siblings are losing soldiers, fast

13-06-2026 05:59 If Argentina’s football team has a decent showing in the World Cup, inflation continues to come down and the economy begins to grow, then Javier and Toto can hope to come out the other end and look to consolidate their political project for the second half of 2026.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

A robot oasis and billionaire’s playground in Argentina?

06-06-2026 07:02 Milei’s self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarianism seems totally aligned with the idea of generating a robot oasis and a billionaire’s playground in Argentina.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

First warnings and the myth of ignorance

06-06-2026 06:00 Fifty years ago, two landmark articles were published that exposed the crimes and workings of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its emerging machinery of repression. They remain essential reading today.

by Gustavo Llarull

Choose your own Argentina

30-05-2026 05:27 Depending on which data you look at, you get a different Argentina. The main political question for the next year is whether the two Argentinas will begin to converge or drift further apart.

by Marcelo J. García

Donald Trump and his doppelgänger

30-05-2026 05:12 Did Trump make a historic blunder when he chose to join Israel in what began as an attempt to overthrow the Iranian dictatorship?

by James Neilson

Vaca Muerta will ensure next president against currency crises

19-05-2026 10:28 Between the export boom of Vaca Muerta and annual agricultural contributions, an unprecedented amount of hard currency could be entering Argentina as from 2027. The next government would have, for the first time in many years, sufficient support to avoid runs on the currency and hyperinflation.

by Carlos Burgueño

Does Milei want a second term?

16-05-2026 05:57 The good news is that the vote for his re-election is still 17 months away; the bad news is that, at this rate, he might not win.

by Marcelo J. García

India’s fight against terrorism

12-05-2026 10:11 India and Argentina, despite being separated by oceans and continents, are united by democratic values and by the shared conviction that terrorism is an assault on civilisation itself. In this common struggle, silence is not neutrality; it is acquiescence.

Economists cast doubt on Milei’s green shoots in weary Argentina

09-05-2026 08:41 Experts worry that President Javier Milei's government is painting an optimistic picture of the economy that is not yet backed by data.