News of control

Argentina goes all-in to cut record gap with parallel peso

12-11-2020 16:42 Argentina is resorting to all necessary means to reduce the gap between its official and parallel exchange rates.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Murders surge in Brazil despite pandemic

20-10-2020 08:52 Number of murders and other violent deaths in Brazil increased 7.1% in first half of the year, despite lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

LA GRIETA

What we've got here is failure to communicate

26-09-2020 09:13 There are at least two major elements to conducting public policy: the construction and execution of successful strategic plans and their communication, in order to generate the correct expectations.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Claudio Tapia re-elected as AFA president for another term

21-05-2020 23:33 Media mogul Marcelo Tinelli, who also serves as president of San Lorenzo, elected director of the new Liga de Fútbol Profesional, which will replace the Superliga.

Vaca Muerta

YPF slows shale exploration due to price controls

09-03-2020 15:55 State-owned oil company will back off from shale exploration as government price controls reduce potential revenue.

Bloomberg

Argentina seeks to expand beef-price caps as consumption sinks

31-01-2020 15:53 The government aims to expand the types of beef cuts that will be price-controlled in an effort to keep the product affordable amid rampant inflation.

SPANISH AUTHORITIES

Madrid set to clip wings of 12,000 noisy Argentine parakeets

07-10-2019 17:25 In a statement, city hall said it has drawn up a plan "to reduce and control the population" without giving a figure. One element of the plan would involve sterilising eggs in the nest to encourage female Argentine quaker parrots to incubate but not hatch them.