THE WEEK IN ARGENTINA Menem moments 20-02-2021 07:02 Carlos Menem dominated Argentine politics for a decade. And his death, for a moment, meant he was all over the news once more. by Martín Gambarotta
A PRESIDENTIAL TETE Á TETE? Enough with the bickering – Alberto and Mauricio should meet 17-10-2020 09:05 At an extremely troublesome moment for the world, Argentina is engaging in ridiculous self-inflicted shocks of uncertainty. by Agustino Fontevecchia
PERIODISMO PURO / INTERVIEW Hernán Lacunza: ‘We can’t reset the economy every four years, as we’ve been doing since 1945’ 18-07-2020 08:30 Former finance minister Hernán Lacunza on Argentina’s debt restructuring efforts, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, inflation and more. by Jorge Fontevecchia
Op-Ed Contradictions, convictions and convergence 13-09-2019 22:58 Contradictions have been constant in the five weeks since the PASO upset conferred frontrunner status on Fernández – an upset which has triggered sporadic market mayhem and massive downtown picket protests.
ANALYSIS: PASOs 2019 Macri, Fernández must begin transition of power now 12-08-2019 16:31 Alberto Fernández has still not woken up to the fact that he's the virtual president-elect. When he spoke on Sunday evening, upping the ante to gain even more votes in October, he spoke of "in the next two months." His problem starts now, in the next two days. by Jorge Fontevecchia
ELECTION 2019 All things must PASO 10-08-2019 09:49 The president’s camp is painting tomorrow’s vote as a crucial polarising showdown — even when the turn-out in the primaries is usually about two million voters less than in October. by Martín Gambarotta
ELECTION EXPLAINER Argentina's PASO primaries: What you need to know 08-08-2019 21:34 Argentina goes to the polls on Sunday for “open, simultaneous and obligatory primaries.” Confused? Here's a breakdown of what you need to know.
PASO Negative PASO result for Macri would unleash market turmoil, warn analysts 07-08-2019 17:30 Domestic and international observers fear economic backlash, should Alberto Fernández finish more than five points ahead of President Macri and his allies in this weekend's primaries. by Lucas Robinson
2019 Election Macri closes Buenos Aires campaign ahead of PASO 07-08-2019 00:06 Juntos por el Cambio’s Buenos Aires candidates held their final pre-PASO rally in Caballito Tuesday to make their case to porteños.
PASO Campaigns gear up for final PASO sprint 05-08-2019 15:27 The primary's final week will see Macri campaign in the City and the 'Fernández-Fernández' ticket reuniting in Rosario.
GREATER BUENOS AIRES The megalopolis of the metropolis 13-07-2019 09:50 Greater Buenos Aires is relatively new as a factor in Argentine history. It can be described as really coming into its own with the 1960 census, which for the first time recorded more people as living beyond the city limits as within them – four million as against three million in an Argentina of 20 million people. by Michael Soltys
MONEY & POWER What Washington and Wall Street really think about Argentina and Macri 13-07-2019 09:21 If the Fernández-Fernández ticket takes a six to seven percentage-point lead over the Macri-Pichetto duo in the PASOs, investors will run for the hills. by Agustino Fontevecchia
ELECTIONS 2019: CAMPAIGN WATCH Electoral slates in, time to go to the shrink 22-06-2019 10:29 More broadly, the political establishment would also need to explain why the country has to vote in a primary in August in which none of the presidential candidacies competing in. by Marcelo J. Garcia
ELECTION 2019: MENDOZA Old wine in new bottles 22-06-2019 09:00 Founded in 1561 with an original population of some 2,500 (of whom just 47 were Spanish) only eight years after Santiago del Estero, Mendoza is Argentina’s second-oldest city but does not look it – the result of a series of devastating earthquakes, the worst of which occurred in its tricentennial year of 1861, killing around half of the then 20,000 inhabitants by Michael Soltys
AS I SEE IT Fun time for politicians 08-06-2019 10:51 Politicians like electioneering so much that they have put in place a series of obstacles candidates must jump over before reaching the finishing straight. by James Neilson