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The opposition takes to the streets

22-08-2020 09:58 These days demonstrators are well-behaved men and women who wear facemasks not for fear of getting recognised by the cops, but because they have no desire to get infected by the coronavirus.

by James Neilson

New poll points to lockdown fatigue in Buenos Aires City

15-08-2020 08:33 Eight out of 10 people admit to quarantine fatigue while also expressing fear of Covid-19 contagion, a University of Belgrano opinion poll has revealed.

Covid-19’s toll will rewrite Latin America's future

01-07-2020 23:22 The multiple crises assailing Latin America might not go entirely to waste, but to achieve lasting salutary change, the region must address the systemic vulnerabilities laid bare by the pandemic.

by Mac Margolis

Good behaviour won't deliver Argentina from economic pain

03-06-2020 15:50 Argentina deserves debt relief, but also a credible way forward. The country still needs a path to growth, new investment and the prospect of fiscal reasonableness beyond the pandemic – and that is where the road map ends.

by Mac Margolis

The virus is winning on all fronts

25-04-2020 12:02 What might be just about tolerable for a couple of months most definitely would not be if, as seems more than probable, the “emergency” that allegedly justifies such stringent measures drags on for many years to come.

by James Neilson

Pay no more

25-04-2020 11:57 Argentina is staring default in the face once again. The country has been here before, but never with the world economy cracking up in the middle of a pandemic.

by Martín Gambarotta

Waiting for the end

11-04-2020 11:02 Covid-19 is here to stay and we will have to get used to living with it, just as we have with whatever causes the common flu, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, pneumonia, diabetes and many other deadly ailments.

by James Neilson

Social policy collides with scandal

11-04-2020 10:42 Born in the Greater Buenos Aires district of Morón, Social Development Minister Daniel Fernando Arroyo has made social policy his exclusive focus since starting his university studies (UBA) more than three decades ago.

by Michael Soltys

Making the most of the coronavirus

04-04-2020 09:36 It is generally agreed that, until the emergency is over, it will be better to give President Alberto Fernández and his team the benefit of the doubt, unless they start making decisions that could have ruinous consequences.

by James Neilson

Hitting the reset button to avoid a new Great Depression

04-04-2020 08:17 So far so good, it seemed. Yet the emergence of partisan bickering this weekhas tainted what appeared to be one of the most successful state and political reactions to the coronavirus crisis, amplified by the botched responses of countries like Spain and Italy, and leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Science joins global hunt for vaccine

28-03-2020 10:48 The Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Ministry was created on the very first day of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presidency in 2007. In the ensuing eight years of that controversial regime, it is difficult to find any initiative of hers which commanded approval across so wide a spectrum.

by Michael Soltys

This is much more than just a health pandemic

28-03-2020 08:47 We are facing not only a health epidemic but a new wave of structural poverty which especially hits the daily lives of the most vulnerable.

by Agustín Salvia

Coronavirus outbreak could be an opportunity for Alberto Fernández

21-03-2020 09:26 Fernández and his Cabinet had only one tangible mission upon taking power: renegotiating Argentina’s massive debt pile in terms that would give the economy time to “get back on its feet.”

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Few certainties in a pandemic that touches all of us

21-03-2020 08:52 Life in the time of coronavirus will take some getting used to. An inelegant attempt to make sense of the incomprehensible.

by James Grainger

Growth put on the backburner

29-02-2020 11:33 When in opposition, Peronists and others with broadly similar points of view like to pretend that the country is several times richer than the available data would suggest.

by James Neilson

Education, pay talks and class struggle

29-02-2020 11:28 The prospect of classes starting almost everywhere this Monday and last Wednesday’s return of national collective bargaining to the chronic problem of teacher pay for the first time since 2017 are ample reason to make education the choice for today’s “Ministry Positions” column.

by Michael Soltys

With the IMF on our side...

22-02-2020 12:57 The bondholders still don’t know what kind of a haircut they will be asked to suffer but Guzmán is trying to meet a March 31 deadline. A long next month lies ahead.

by Martín Gambarotta

China and Argentina’s marriage of convenience

22-02-2020 11:12 Research shows that Argentina has entrenched its historic role as a raw material exporter, with little respect for environmental norms.

Groundhog Day all over again

15-02-2020 11:17 Argentina’s many economic problems have less to do with greedy speculators, whether local or foreign, than with the corporatist model Juan Domingo Perón consolidated almost three-quarters of a century ago.

by James Neilson

Selective amnesia, ‘lawfare’ and ‘political prisoners’

15-02-2020 09:47 What was originally a small headache is escalating to migraine status for President Fernández. Internal fissures between the fringe fanatical Kirchnerites and more moderate Peronists has reached the top levels of governments

by Agustino Fontevecchia