News of caste

Careful Javier, the ‘caste’ smells blood

12-04-2025 05:29 Legislators who had until now been cooperative or aloof toward confrontation with Milei are changing their tune, in line with what they hear from their constituencies.

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS

Chaco and Milei’s electoral strategy for October

15-03-2025 07:36 Chaco shows that Milei is willing to seal alliances with the local political establishment — a.k.a. “the caste” — as it best suits them. And the Casa Rosada has leverage in this negotiation with the governors: cash.

by Marcelo J. García

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Caste away

21-12-2024 05:07 If our parliamentarians are going to be their own men or women, some way must be found of making them fully accountable to their voters.

by Michael Soltys

EDITORIAL

The near in blood, the nearer bloody

21-12-2024 05:07 Time to stop being the snake biting its own tail and return to being the libertarian lion against the caste instead of co-opting it.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Mixed signals

14-09-2024 06:43 It is clear that Milei and his team have the necessary tools to negotiate, when they want to. But doing so exposes them to caste-like behaviour, which is in turn exposed by their opponents.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Nobody wins

14-09-2024 06:37 Milei risks his popularity with insensitivity towards pensioners in the name of maintaining a fiscal surplus.

EDITORIAL

Tinkering and tailoring the judge and the spy

24-08-2024 05:55 While “Big Brother” espionage would seem to contradict the libertarian creed in general, the nomination of the controversial federal judge Ariel Lijo for the Supreme Court flies in the face of Milei’s electoral crusade against a corrupt “caste.”

ECONOMY & POLITICS

Milei blames political 'caste' as study estimates 57% poverty rate

19-02-2024 14:06 President blames political "caste" for the soaring poverty that a study estimates plagues 57% of population.

Opinion & Analysis

Neither castes nor authoritarianism

15-02-2024 11:37 Argentina has already suffered plenty from quasi-messianic leaders opening up deep grieta chasms with their friend-or-foe logic.

by Nelson Castro

ELECTION 2023

Ñoquis, gatos, gorilas and la grieta – a glossary for Argentine politics

16-11-2023 16:46 Animals, food and ideology – the sources of the unique expressions that dominate politics in Argentina and how to understand the terminology.

ELECTION 2023

End of an alliance: Barrionuevo withdraws support for Milei

26-10-2023 15:51 (Brief) understanding between libertarian leader and veteran restaurant workers’ union boss Luis Barrionuevo comes to an end after Milei’s deal with Macri, Bullrich.

ELECTIONS 2023

What everyone is thinking and no-one is saying (about Javier Milei)

16-09-2023 05:14 What the members of the ‘círculo rojo’ are all thinking, but are not willing to say publicly, is that they believe a Milei administration would be marked by a level of institutional instability so great that it would quickly lead to a situation of social unrest.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ELECTION 2023: PASO PRIMARIES

Euphoric Milei celebrates and warns 'the caste' it's time is up

14-08-2023 01:58 Presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza vows that his party "will put an end to Kirchnerism" and to the "parasitic, parasitic, useless and useless political caste that is destroying this country" in speech to supporters.