News of ruling

Judges: Attack on ‘defenceless’ Báez Sosa was ‘previously agreed’

Yesterdat 22:24 Judges rule that attack on “defenceless” 18-year-old Fernando Báez Sosa was “previously agreed”; Court rejects defence’s request for a conviction on the grounds that it was a "homicide in a quarrel.”

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Sergio Massa: ‘Argentina is a country which has a lot to offer a world in crisis’

14-01-2023 06:38 In his first long interview since assuming office as Argentina’s ‘super economy minister,’ Sergio Massa analyses his first few months in office and outlines his goals for 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

REVENUE-SHARING ROW

President snubs Supreme Court ruling, sparking crisis

23-12-2022 14:49 President Alberto Fernández's decision to disobey a Supreme Court order to return funding to the government of the opposition-controlled city of Buenos Aires, sparks an institutional crisis.

KEY COURT RULING

Supreme Court rules in favour of City Hall in federal revenue-sharing row

22-12-2022 09:49 Casa Rosada analysing next steps to follow after big judicial setback; Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta hails decision that boosts capital’s share of revenue-sharing percentage.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Reset

13-12-2022 15:20 In May 2019, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced in a video that she was choosing Alberto Fernández as the Frente de Todos presidential candidate. Last week, she excluded herself from any candidacy in next year’s elections, once again shaking up the political status quo.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

COURTS

Judge indicts four Revolución Federal members for ‘inciting hate’

03-11-2022 23:18 Judge charges four members of far-right group Revolución Federal with "inciting hatred, intolerance and collective violence against a president."

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Judge charges two more for role in Fernández de Kirchner assassination attempt

02-10-2022 08:31 Federal Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti on Saturday charged Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo and Agustina Díaz with complicity in the attempted assassination of Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last month.

UNITED STATES

US abortion ruling roils midterm election campaign

01-07-2022 13:52 Supreme Court ruling upends race to crucial vote that will decide who controls Congress for rest of Biden’s term in office.

Reunion at Technopolis

Alberto and CFK expose their differences yet again – but with good manners

04-06-2022 10:41 President and the vice-president re-appear together at event marking 100 years of YPF; There were smiles – but also warnings from both sides.

by Rosario Ayerdi

POLITICS

Fernández de Kirchner tells president to embrace 'conflict' and govern

04-06-2022 09:21 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, speaking at an event marking the 100th anniversary of state energy firm YPF, declares that it is impossible to “govern without conflict” in Argentina and calls on President Fernández to embrace the challenge.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner, over 100 businessmen acquitted in branch of 'Cuadernos' case

04-05-2022 16:36 Acquittal covers denunciations of the “cartelisation of public works” branch of ‘Cuadernos’ graft case; Vice-president remains on trial for core part of this case, as well as others stemming from the suspected payment of bribes during her government.

RULING COALITION

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

28-03-2022 22:02 Ruling coalition senators propose new bill that would tax the undeclared assets of citizens held overseas and use them to pay off IMF debt.

EDITORIAL

Remembering back to the future

25-03-2022 20:55 All the political jockeying, shows of force and crisis scenarios should not distract us from what Memory Day is all about.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Sergio Massa: ‘I stopped basing my politics on articles or opinion polls a long time ago’

25-03-2022 12:00 Lower House speaker on tensions in the ruling coalition, the approval of the IMF debt deal and whether he’ll run for the Presidency in 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

‘Cuadernos’ probe: Case proceeds to trial as court rejects CFK’s appeal

16-02-2022 22:04 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s objections rejected in the 'Cuadernos' (“notebooks”) corruption investigation; Case will now proceed to trial.

WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS

Brazil and Argentina ordered to play World Cup abandoned qualifier

14-02-2022 14:28 FIFA orders Brazil and Argentina to replay World Cup qualifying match halted in São Paulo last September over alleged Covid-19 quarantine breaches by the visitors.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Máximo Kirchner quits Argentina Congress role in IMF protest

01-02-2022 14:21 Argentina’s tentative IMF agreement suffers a setback as Máximo Kirchner, the ruling coalition’s leader in the lower house, resigns in protest over the deal.

FRENTE DE TODOS

Máximo Kirchner resigns lower house post over IMF deal

31-01-2022 21:49 Leader of the ruling coalition’s bloc in the Chamber of Deputies steps down in protest over government's new deal with IMF. President admits in a TV interview that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner "has a different view" to him.

BLOOMBERG

Lower house unexpectedly rejects 2022 Budget bill

17-12-2021 14:55 Lower house of Congress unexpectedly rejects government’s 2022 budget proposal, a blow to President Alberto Fernández as he enters the second half of his presidency.

JUDICIARY

Supreme Court rules 2006 reform of Magistrates Council was 'unconstitutional'

17-12-2021 02:48 In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court on Thursday declared that the the 2006 reform of the Council of Magistrates was unconstitutional.

UK COURTS

Organiser of flight that killed footballer Emiliano Sala jailed for 18 months

12-11-2021 09:28 David Henderson, the businessman who organised the 2019 flight that killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in a crash in the English Channel, sentenced to 18 months in jail for endangering safety of aircraft.

Death of Emiliano Sala

Businessman who organised flight that killed Emiliano Sala convicted

28-10-2021 10:16 David Henderson, the 67-year-old businessman who organised the flight in which Emiliano Sala died, found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft by a majority jury verdict at Cardiff Crown Court.

PLANE CRASH TRAGEDY

UK court told man accused over Emiliano Sala's plane crash was not 'reckless'

26-10-2021 14:31 The lawyer defending a man on trial over the 2019 plane crash that killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala said on Tuesday his involvement in the tragedy was "purely a paperwork issue."

PLANE CRASH TRAGEDY

Owner of plane in Emiliano Sala crash 'forbade use of pilot'

20-10-2021 10:41 The owner of a plane that crashed with Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala on board told a UK court on Wednesday she had ordered the operator not to use the pilot.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court finds Colombia responsible for rape, torture of journalist

19-10-2021 09:05 Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules Colombia bears responsibility for the ordeal of a female journalist Jineth Bedoya, who was kidnapped, raped and then tortured in 2000 by far-right paramilitaries.

PLANE CRASH TRAGEDY

Man goes on trial in UK over plane crash death of footballer Emiliano Sala

18-10-2021 08:58 David Henderson stands trial for charges in connection with the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in a light aircraft crash in 2019.

BIG TECH

Is Facebook a monopoly? A few ideas to help the FTC out…

10-07-2021 08:20 For anyone operating in the same digital ecosystem as Facebook, it is painstakingly clear that Zuckerberg’s creation has excessive market power and uses it to its own benefit. The same can be said about Google and a few other Silicon Valley giants.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Courting deadlock

08-05-2021 00:28 The whole idea of the separation of powers is to achieve a constructive division of labour, not a collision course in which the component forces cancel each out.

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

The school feud

17-04-2021 07:33 Fernández and Rodríguez Larreta, much to the dismay of the hawks in both coalitions, gave moderation a shot. Now the rift is back.

by Martín Gambarotta

IMF DEBT TALKS

'We can't pay' – CFK puts US$45-billion IMF debt talks into doubt

27-03-2021 07:21 With Economy Minister Martín Guzmán in Washington for meetings with IMF staff members, Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner makes explosive intervention into restructuring talks.

APPS & WORK

UK top court shakes up gig economy with ruling against Uber

19-02-2021 14:19 UK's Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are entitled to breaks, holiday pay and minimum wage, in what has been described as "another nail in the coffin" for the gig economy.

CIVIL SUIT

Press freedom row erupts as journalist told to turn over audio recordings

13-02-2021 09:09 Author and journalist Santiago O’Donnell ordered to hand over recordings used to create his best-selling book Hermano, which features interviews with Mariano Macri, brother of former president Mauricio Macri.

by Jennifer Heiman

News of ruling

Judges: Attack on ‘defenceless’ Báez Sosa was ‘previously agreed’

Sergio Massa: ‘Argentina is a country which has a lot to offer a world in crisis’

President snubs Supreme Court ruling, sparking crisis

Supreme Court rules in favour of City Hall in federal revenue-sharing row

Reset

Judge indicts four Revolución Federal members for ‘inciting hate’

Judge charges two more for role in Fernández de Kirchner assassination attempt

US abortion ruling roils midterm election campaign

Alberto and CFK expose their differences yet again – but with good manners

Fernández de Kirchner tells president to embrace 'conflict' and govern

Fernández de Kirchner, over 100 businessmen acquitted in branch of 'Cuadernos' case

Frente de Todos senators eye bill to tax undeclared assets held overseas

Remembering back to the future

Sergio Massa: ‘I stopped basing my politics on articles or opinion polls a long time ago’

‘Cuadernos’ probe: Case proceeds to trial as court rejects CFK’s appeal

Brazil and Argentina ordered to play World Cup abandoned qualifier

Máximo Kirchner quits Argentina Congress role in IMF protest

Máximo Kirchner resigns lower house post over IMF deal

Lower house unexpectedly rejects 2022 Budget bill

Supreme Court rules 2006 reform of Magistrates Council was 'unconstitutional'

Organiser of flight that killed footballer Emiliano Sala jailed for 18 months

Businessman who organised flight that killed Emiliano Sala convicted

UK court told man accused over Emiliano Sala's plane crash was not 'reckless'

Owner of plane in Emiliano Sala crash 'forbade use of pilot'

Court finds Colombia responsible for rape, torture of journalist

Man goes on trial in UK over plane crash death of footballer Emiliano Sala

Is Facebook a monopoly? A few ideas to help the FTC out…

Courting deadlock

The school feud

'We can't pay' – CFK puts US$45-billion IMF debt talks into doubt

UK top court shakes up gig economy with ruling against Uber

Press freedom row erupts as journalist told to turn over audio recordings

Five of eight accused of killing Fernando Báez Sosa handed life sentences

Báez Sosa trial: Who was convicted and what was their sentence?

Lucio Dupuy trial: Mother, partner found guilty of killing five-year-old

Judges: Attack on ‘defenceless’ Báez Sosa was ‘previously agreed’

'Los Rugbiers': the group of eight accused of killing Fernando Báez Sosa

Qué dice la ley y en qué momento podrían salir de prisión los cinco rugbiers condenados a perpetua

Los Pertossi: el prontuario de la familia de tres de los acusados por el crimen de Báez Sosa

Calor extremo: once provincias están en alerta amarilla por altas temperaturas

La madre de Máximo Thomsen atacó a los periodistas: "Tres años bancándonos a estos hijos de p..."

Perpetua, "justicia débil" y desmayo: el día que condenaron a los asesinos de Fernando Báez Sosa