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The poverty of politics

30-09-2023 05:00 One can only tremble at what levels poverty might reach for the second half of this year after last month’s double-digit inflation.

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Of electoral and constitutional triangles

23-09-2023 05:05 Winning on October 22 will not be the end of the story.

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Cheaper by the dozen?

16-09-2023 05:47 While there is more than one reading of Sergio Massa’s tax cuts, all lead to more inflation. If one side of political polarisation blames the fiscal deficit for rising prices and the other business greed, both are simplistic.

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It’s not just the economy, stupid!

09-09-2023 05:25 In the last general elections in 2019 PASO primary winner Alberto Fernández was seconded by a woman whom nobody underestimated and today’s PASO primary winner Milei is seconded by a woman who perhaps should not be underestimated either.

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Whither the plan, any plan?

02-09-2023 06:17 The disintegration of Sergio Massa’s electioneering package would seem to confirm that we are now in the embers of the current government but does the problem end there?

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Blasts from the past?

26-08-2023 03:03 An often paranoid country’s attention being seized by the threat of mass lootings is understandable enough as evoking the 2001-2002 meltdown but it distracts attention from more potentially substantial developments.

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Primary Avalanche Shatters Order

19-08-2023 08:21 Argentina’s general election is still nine weekends away but it has been turned on its head.

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A nation votes and reality bites

10-08-2023 23:39 A brutal campaign brought the PASO primary campaign to a shuddering halt midweek – this black swan could end up resetting the central question of this election.

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The price of victory

06-08-2023 19:09 The two main coalitions in this election are very differently poised with a battered Peronist government already coming up with its answer for better or for worse.

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A parlous parliament

15-07-2023 06:53 Congress might be virtually ignored in this election campaign and yet its pivotal role should not be underestimated by any of the presidential candidates.

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Schools for scandal

07-07-2023 13:05 An eternal orphan of election campaigns, education has started to creep into public discussion despite stiff competition from the usual headlines.

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Man of two worlds

01-07-2023 08:41 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown but even more so when it wears two hats with the crown still distant.

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Crime time versus electoral timetables

17-06-2023 06:01 If nature abhors a vacuum, democratic politics also needs new men and women to fill its leadership vacuum.

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Back to the future?

10-06-2023 06:26 That famous “Begone with them all” 2001 slogan of anti-system outrage against politicians is now more in the air than at any time since then, while today’s currency seems to be entering irreversibly into a similar terminal phase.

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Slow boat to China

03-06-2023 06:12 All policy here is driven by the desperation arising from the parlous state of Central Bank reserves.

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Are 20 years really nothing?

27-05-2023 06:54 Those who expect a direct correlation between electoral success and economic growth would find Argentina again bucking the trend in the last 20 years.

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April showers bring no May flowers

20-05-2023 07:00 There can be no doubt that inflation is public enemy number one.

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Much ado about almost nothing

13-05-2023 09:07 One constant of the current administration has been to prioritise the political and the judicial over the economic and the social, with this week a case in point.

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The Book Fair as today’s Aleph

06-05-2023 06:21 There is a case for saying that the Buenos Aires International Book Fair itself is an Aleph of Argentine today.

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Bucking the trend or a new weight for the peso?

29-04-2023 05:41 The giddy oscillations of parallel exchange rates and the relentless acceleration of prices are moving too fast to leave any margin for gradualism, thus making shock treatment inevitable.

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Third way, third-rate or third world?

22-04-2023 07:13 When the only certainty is uncertainty, any logic evaporates. The prevailing mood in the build-up to this year’s elections is more like mindless panic.

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Means and ends

15-04-2023 06:44 Politicians blame each other and the citizenry blames the politicians, but perhaps everybody needs to focus on finding some constructive alternatives.

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Slaughter in La Matanza

08-04-2023 06:32 What made Daniel Barrientos’s murder such a major issue was not the bus-driver’s cruel end but the backlash to the crime wave crossing the line.

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Paint it black – beyond the White House

01-04-2023 06:07 The White House meeting and Macri’s bombshell announcement dominated last week’s headlines but neither in truth do very much to modify the basic picture.

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Is no memory sacred?

25-03-2023 06:00 Despite the increasing distance from the 1976 military coup on its 47th anniversary, Memory Day cannot be consigned to the past because it is all about impunity, which also belongs to the present and future. v

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Problems amassing for Massa

18-03-2023 03:43 In contrast to 2022, this year thus far has brought in little other than bad news for Sergio Massa, while taking a distinct turn for the worse in recent days.

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Beware all sides of March

11-03-2023 05:20 Various anniversaries in recent days (including today) only underline the fragmentation of a society facing the overhang of economic and social volcanoes.

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It takes two to tango even when dancing alone

04-03-2023 03:02 Most of the reactions to the two-hour state-of-the-nation address of President Alberto Fernández to open Congress on Wednesday fall into its trap of placing their main focus on its explosive climax, thus limiting the debate to the judicial arena rather than tackling the deeper and more complex problems facing Argentina.

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The present is another country

25-02-2023 06:52 The government stance on Ukraine remains tentative, yet its diluted backtracking from previous tacit support for Russia, in tandem with the offers of Argentine citizenship to Nicaraguan dissidents, offers signs of the government recalibrating its foreign policy.

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The number of the beast

18-02-2023 06:00 The apocalyptic number of six has already struck twice on the judicial and economic fronts – will it make a third and final appearance?

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Pre-electoral post-mortems

11-02-2023 06:57 While the gridlock emanating from polarised politics is bad enough, fragmentation threatens to add further uncertainty to the electoral picture.

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Sense and the census

04-02-2023 06:00 What this census is providing are updated figures on the population of Argentine provinces, which should at least serve to remove any excuse for not making the final reform of federal revenue-sharing stipulated for the year 1996 by the 1994 constitutional reformers.

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Summits do not always reach a peak

28-01-2023 14:51 The CELAC summit came and went without leaving anything in the way of a footprint.

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For a few dollars less

21-01-2023 05:53 Sergio Massa looks no closer to gaining market confidence nor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to advancing the impeachment of the Supreme Court beyond committee stage in Congress.

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Inclusive is also elusive

14-01-2023 06:49 The opinion polls in the immediate wake of last weekend’s invasion of the centres of all three branches of government in Brazil show a majority reject both the mob violence and its underlying denial of Lula’s election victory, but by underwhelming margins.

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Today is 2022… and tomorrow is 2023

31-12-2022 09:20 The year ending today has left most people feeling stuck in a rut, despite being anything but static. The only forecast that we can make with any certainty for the year now only hours away is that the 40th year since the return of democracy will come with general elections towards its end.

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Christmas this Sunday or last (or both)?

24-12-2022 06:45 The word “catharsis” has been overused in the past month because of its tempting overlap with the World Cup host country’s name but the shoe fits – there was an element of catharsis for a country still emerging from the coronavirus pandemic and enduring over a decade without any sustained growth since that 2010 bicentenary.

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You can only dream when there’s a team

17-12-2022 05:55 The Scaloneta’s smooth passage into tomorrow’s World Cup final in Qatar following last Tuesday’s semi-final has given a troubled nation an outburst of unanimous joy not seen in a long time. The key? Teamwork.

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Knocked for six

10-12-2022 04:58 If Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is the first serving Argentine vice-president to be sentenced for corruption, that is perhaps the less significant precedent set by Tuesday’s historic verdict in the Santa Cruz highway contract corruption trial.

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Hanging in the balance (of powers)

26-11-2022 01:52 Argentina has very concrete problems resulting from the seemingly abstract factor of legal security.

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Qatar – catharsis or the opposite?

18-11-2022 00:13 Argentina’s main risks currently lie in peso rather than dollar debt since obtaining rollovers from the IMF seems to be pushing at an open door. In contrast, peso bonds and the resulting quasi-fiscal deficit cannot be underestimated as prime causes of swelling the peso demand for the dollar.

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Storms amid a drought

12-11-2022 06:17 In the context of a lethal global cocktail being compounded by so many urgent socio-economic problems here, it seems incredibly absurd that judicial issues should continue to dominate the local political agenda.

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Sambas are not tangos

05-11-2022 06:22 Alberto Fernández raced to São Paulo to congratulate a victorious Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva yet no mirror of his own future awaited him in Brazil.

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Budget or judge it (or fudge it)

29-10-2022 06:00 It looks like Argentina will have next year the Budget which it never could in this – that is the main upside after long hours of parliamentary debate which have done nothing to redeem politics from its current disrepute.

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Stating the less than obvious

22-10-2022 06:20 Understanding a problem is the most important half of the solution.

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The discreet charm of inflation

14-10-2022 09:11 The vested interests benefitting from inflation in Argentina are extremely powerful and go a long way towards explaining its extraordinary persistence.

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Schools for scandal

08-10-2022 06:00 There are right and wrong ways of addressing both our critics and our supporters and of responding to crisis.

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As eleições mais grandes do mundo

30-09-2022 14:30 Brazil’s presidential election is already being widely billed in advance as a paradigm shift for the region but although it is hard to imagine a change of government not happening and not being for the better, a few caveats would be in order.

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Neither magic nor realism

23-09-2022 13:00 The theatre of the absurd would seem to have found a home in Argentina. Yet amid all this surrealism there are real problems awaiting real solutions and until these arrive, there seem no limits as to what will fill the vacuum.

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Magnicide versus magnification

17-09-2022 02:57 The failed attack on the vice-president should serve to place the grieta rift in a new light. Instead of being viewed as an unbridgeable gap between two political sides, the chasm should be seen as the millions who find no place in the two opposing coalitions or society as a whole.

News of editorial

The poverty of politics

Of electoral and constitutional triangles

Cheaper by the dozen?

It’s not just the economy, stupid!

Whither the plan, any plan?

Blasts from the past?

Primary Avalanche Shatters Order

A nation votes and reality bites

The price of victory

A parlous parliament

Schools for scandal

Man of two worlds

Crime time versus electoral timetables

Back to the future?

Slow boat to China

Are 20 years really nothing?

April showers bring no May flowers

Much ado about almost nothing

The Book Fair as today’s Aleph

Bucking the trend or a new weight for the peso?

Third way, third-rate or third world?

Means and ends

Slaughter in La Matanza

Paint it black – beyond the White House

Is no memory sacred?

Problems amassing for Massa

Beware all sides of March

It takes two to tango even when dancing alone

The present is another country

The number of the beast

Pre-electoral post-mortems

Sense and the census

Summits do not always reach a peak

For a few dollars less

Inclusive is also elusive

Today is 2022… and tomorrow is 2023

Christmas this Sunday or last (or both)?

You can only dream when there’s a team

Knocked for six

Hanging in the balance (of powers)

Qatar – catharsis or the opposite?

Storms amid a drought

Sambas are not tangos

Budget or judge it (or fudge it)

Stating the less than obvious

The discreet charm of inflation

Schools for scandal

As eleições mais grandes do mundo

Neither magic nor realism

Magnicide versus magnification

Swamp creatures have Javier Milei surrounded

Can Bullrich and Massa face the ‘Milei-tide’?

Milei and Perón: one heart?

Understanding why we vote differently – a conversation with Luis Ignacio Brusco

Hat-trick or the third wheel?

¿Quién ganó el debate presidencial?

Sofía Clerici: "Me fui sola a ver a mi hermana a Marbella, el barco es de un amigo y los regalos me los compré yó"

Denunciaron a Sofía Clerici en la Justicia Federal tras el escándalo por el viaje con Martín Insaurralde

Qué le dijo Sergio Massa a Javier Milei cuando tenía el micrófono apagado

Cómo varió la posición de Sofía Clerici tras el estallido del Insaurralde Gate