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Taking sides in the new cold war

24-07-2021 00:35 Joe Biden wants his country to lead a coalition of the willing to help him wage what, he hopes, will remain a cold war against China, Russia and other autocracies.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Mightier than the dollar

24-07-2021 00:34 The successive fates of the austral and convertibility would suggest that Argentina’s currency is like Icarus – the closer it flies to the sun, the harder the economy crashes.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Cuba’s hard-right dictatorship

17-07-2021 11:12 For fanatics, the cause they are devoted to is infinitely more important than anything else, and there can be no doubt at all that, despite the evident failure of the revolution to deliver the promised goods, there are still plenty of fanatics in Cuba.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Facundo Manes: A nerve specialist for a nervous country?

17-07-2021 11:09 Lots of excited talk about Facundo Manes as an electoral game-changer, but has he given any hint as to the concrete policy proposals the opposition should be offering?

by Michael Soltys

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Reutemann: A life in multispeed

09-07-2021 22:26 Although never losing an election, whether for governor or senator, all in his native province of Santa Fe, the abiding memory of Reutemann’s political career will always be ducking a presidential run in 2003, thus effectively bequeathing Kirchnerismo to this country.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Let the rest of the world stew in its own juice

09-07-2021 22:22 The United States decided to retreat from Afghanistan after both Trump and his followers and Biden and his asked themselves: what is in it for us? The answer they gave themselves was: nothing much.

by James Neilson

As I see it

A great time for malcontents

03-07-2021 23:17 In the rich Western countries and their cultural offshoots, what was once the fringe has become the centre.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

PASO = Pushing A Single Option

03-07-2021 23:13 The attitude that candidacies should be defined by political factions negotiating a single list, rather than the choice of the electorate at large, quite simply insults the citizenry of a democratic society.

by Michael Soltys

AS I SEE IT

Joe Biden and his gaffe-prone doppelganger

26-06-2021 00:25 Before the middle of last year, Biden was widely seen as an elderly man on the verge of retirement who had turned into a gaffe machine.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me

Hugo Chávez, I'll go somewhere else

26-06-2021 00:15 Plenty of opinions on Venezuela here in Argentina, ranging from slavish adoration of the ruling ideology to a rather more prevalent demonisation. Neither is recommended.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Asking for the impossible

19-06-2021 09:53 There can be little doubt that those who suspect that Alberto Fernández and Martín Guzmán do not have anything approaching an economic plan are right.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me…

Grabbing the wealth of health by stealth

19-06-2021 09:51 Replacing Argentina’s fragmented system with a comprehensive public health system is highly rational in principle and there are some positive examples abroad – but what are the chances of these being emulated under the current government?

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Alberto blunders into a political minefield

12-06-2021 00:14 Instead of moving forward with the times, Alberto Fernández took several steps backwards to an epoch in which having European roots was regarded as a good thing. He is by no means the first president to do this.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me…

Perusing Peru

12-06-2021 00:11 Political gridlock and Odebrecht corruption were the main causes of Peru’s downturn accelerated by PPK’s ouster in 2018, but the coronavirus pandemic has turned the decline into a free fall – indeed the worst in the region after Venezuela.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Through the foreign-policy looking glass

05-06-2021 00:36 Why does the government led by Alberto Fernández go out of its way to snub the Western powers and their allies, so it can make common cause with the enemies of what, despite everything, still remains of the old international order?

by James Neilson

And that reminds me…

Covid is not the only c-word

05-06-2021 00:29 World Environment Day is upon us and climate change takes centre stage.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

An extremely sensitive superpower

29-05-2021 11:22 Should the government of a debt-ridden country such as Argentina come up with a statement that raised its hackles, China would have no qualms about doing whatever it would take to make it change its mind.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Germany is the capital of Paris

29-05-2021 11:20 Argentina is an old story for the Paris Club – indeed the oldest story of them all since its very first agreement back in 1956 was with the military regime which had just toppled Peronism.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me…

When beef is a beef

22-05-2021 09:51 Back in 2006 the dollars from the commodity price boom perhaps gave Argentina the luxury of being able to sacrifice one of its export markets but that luxury does not exist today.

by Michael Soltys

And that reminds me...

The name of the rose

15-05-2021 15:33 All politics is local, it is often said, and socialism does have its pockets in Argentina, of which the late Lifschitz represented by far the largest, the province of Santa Fe.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

A psychodrama the country could do without

08-05-2021 00:03 The psychodrama starring Alberto and Cristina would be quite entertaining in a novel or a late-night TV show, but unfortunately for tens of millions of people, it is an ongoing real-life tragedy.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me...

Nothing more supreme than uncertainty

08-05-2021 00:01 Guzmán is not the first economy minister to be humiliated by political priorities and nor will he be the last.

by Michael Soltys

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Death be not proud

01-05-2021 00:46 Mario Meoni was not the first Argentine minister to die in office – my newsroom memories stretch all the way back to the Raúl Alfonsín presidency which lost two successive Defence ministers in just nine months.

by Michael Soltys

NEW SERIES

And that reminds me…

09-01-2021 07:28 Yours truly has been a columnist in this newspaper since its very first edition in four different incarnations. A new year, a new column.

by Michael Soltys

MEMORIAL SERVICE

British Embassy pays tribute to late journalist Andrew Graham-Yooll

24-10-2019 18:40 Ambassador Mark Kent leads tributes to late journalist, editor and author, with remembrance from former Buenos Aires Herald editor Robert Cox and cousin John Hunter, and a musical tribute.

by Michael Soltys

25TH BORGES LECTURE

A little history of the Buenos Aires Herald: Pâté, brandy and bomb threats

03-08-2019 12:30 The following column is adapted from the 25th Jorge Luis Borges Lecture, which was due to be delivered on July 23, 2019, by Andrew Graham-Yooll, before the Anglo-Argentine Society in London. Thanks to the kind permission of his family, we are able to print one of the late journalist and writer’s final, unfinished pieces of writing, as Andrew’s last column for the Times.

by Andrew Graham-Yooll

News of buenos aires herald

Taking sides in the new cold war

Mightier than the dollar

Cuba’s hard-right dictatorship

Facundo Manes: A nerve specialist for a nervous country?

Reutemann: A life in multispeed

Let the rest of the world stew in its own juice

A great time for malcontents

PASO = Pushing A Single Option

Joe Biden and his gaffe-prone doppelganger

Hugo Chávez, I'll go somewhere else

Asking for the impossible

Grabbing the wealth of health by stealth

Alberto blunders into a political minefield

Perusing Peru

Through the foreign-policy looking glass

Covid is not the only c-word

An extremely sensitive superpower

Germany is the capital of Paris

When beef is a beef

The name of the rose

A psychodrama the country could do without

Nothing more supreme than uncertainty

Death be not proud

And that reminds me…

British Embassy pays tribute to late journalist Andrew Graham-Yooll

A little history of the Buenos Aires Herald: Pâté, brandy and bomb threats

Argentine fencer accepts marriage proposal in front of TV cameras

Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums

Argentina’s pension fund piles on company bonds as locals baulk

Industrial waste turns Patagonian lake into pink lagoon

Mightier than the dollar

Histórica ola polar en Brasil: cómo afectará a la Argentina

Cómo funciona el "pase sanitario" que comienza a regir en Provincia de Buenos Aires

Aníbal Fernández: "A Vidal la llevan a la Ciudad de Buenos Aires por la catástrofe que hizo en Provincia"

"Las Malvinas no existen": los tweets de Sabrina Ajmechet que reflotaron Maslatón y Alicia Castro

Patricia Bullrich le respondió a Carrió: "La redacción de una ley no es atributo solo de un abogado"