News of foreign policy

Biden faces uphill climb to restore US clout in Latin America

13-06-2022 14:20 US president has made a forceful pitch to reassert Washington's influence in Latin America, but the modesty of his promises will test his efforts at a time when China is making rapid inroads. 

Fernández and Bolsonaro meet for only second time at Americas Summit

10-06-2022 12:42 For Argentina's government, what was only the second face-to-face meeting between the leaders was just an informal exchange, but it is also the beginning of the thawing of a relationship that has had many flashpoints.

by Rosario Ayerdi

Laying out pledges, Biden urges Americas to prove democracy works

09-06-2022 13:46 Welcoming leaders to Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas on Wednesday, US president acknowledges differences but makes an impassioned plea for democracy.

US opposes dictators? Yes! Except when it supports them

07-06-2022 14:44 Dictators are bad, except, well, when they're kind of OK: welcome to the moral gymnastics that Joe Biden is only the latest US president to embrace in a complicated world.

Biden faces cloud on summit to reset Latin America ties

04-06-2022 08:35 US president is hoping to show a new era of US engagement with Latin America at a long-heralded summit next week, but the meeting has been clouded by boycott threats and charges of an unambitious agenda.

President Fernández keeps US in suspense over presence at key regional summit

31-05-2022 11:49 Alberto Fernández has not yet told the United States government whether he will attend next week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, with Argentina’s president in no rush to take a decision.

Alberto jabs at Cristina as he talks up opportunities in Europe

12-05-2022 16:00 President shows off his independent streak during tour of Spain, Germany and France as he criticises vice-president’s “partial view” of challenges facing Argentina.

by James Grainger

President Fernández questions economic sanctions against Russia

11-05-2022 15:59 Peronist leader, speaking in Berlin, says Russia should remain in the G20 and that sanctions on the country over Ukraine war are having “negative repercussions for Argentina and the world.”

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso to visit Argentina next week

15-04-2022 11:34 With the objective of expanding trade links with the region, Lasso will begin an official visit to Argentina Sunday and meet with President Alberto Fernández the following morning.

Argentina, Bolivia call for preservation of democracy in Peru

07-04-2022 23:14 Luis Arce and Alberto Fernández express "concern" over events in Peru and called for “the attention of all Latin American leaders” to be directed at the troubled nation.

'Terrible timing': Brazil's Bolsonaro to visit Russia

13-02-2022 09:50 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is due to arrive in Russia Tuesday for an official visit with highly awkward diplomatic timing, amid the tense stand-off between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

Alberto tells Putin: Argentina has to stop depending on IMF and US

04-02-2022 23:32 President's foreign tour to Moscow, Beijing and Barbados begins with a bang as opposition criticises “irresponsible” remarks to Russian leader.

With friends like these…

15-01-2022 00:01 Cristina’s decision, backed dutifully by Alberto, to move Argentina closer to the Latin American dictatorships that are challenging the international status quo has come at an awkward moment.

by James Neilson

Santiago Cafiero: ‘The principle of non-intervention guides Argentina’s foreign policy’

14-01-2022 20:00 Argentina’s foreign minister discusses his relationship with President Alberto Fernández, the nation’s ties with the United States and debt talks with the International Monetary Fund.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Human rights yesterday, today and tomorrow

10-12-2021 23:23 In Argentina, human rights have become another victim of political polarisation.

Argentina 'concerned' by opposition arrests in Nicaragua, but won't interfere

09-11-2021 15:24 Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires reacts to results of Nicaraguan election by expressing "concern at the detention of opposition leaders," but says it will uphold "tradition of non-interference" in "internal issues of other nations."

Geopolitics and the ideological populism of Macri and Cristina

17-07-2021 11:23 Beginning to leave the Macri-Cristina grieta in the rearview mirror is a necessary condition for progress.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

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

Reuniting the states of America

23-01-2021 09:18 A tiny window of opportunity for reconciliation is open for Joe Biden, but he would be fully excused should he confront a number of other titanic challenges first.

Biden to adopt ‘dramatically different’ approach to Latin America

23-01-2021 08:57 With President Joe Biden now in the White House, three respected experts offer their opinions on what lies ahead for US-Latin American relations over the next four years.

by Jennifer Heiman