Darkness at midnight | Buenos Aires Times

Comparisons are odious but the Peronist infighting in Buenos Aires Province taking two blackouts and a 38-hour extension beyond their own deadline of Saturday’s witching hour to patch together their list of... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: July 19 to 26

BA PROVINCE TEAM LINEUPS Definition of the candidacies for the September 7 provincial elections in Buenos Aires Province went down to the wire of the Saturday midnight and beyond for the ruling... Read more »

Investors see way for Milei to end fight over YPF

There is a silver lining for Javier Milei in a multibillion-dollar US judgment targeting Argentina’s main oil producer: at least some investors see the La Libertad Avanza leader as having a shot... Read more »

Brazil’s Lula pledges ‘solidarity’ as he visits house-confined Fernández de Kirchner

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her apartment on Thursday in Buenos Aires, where the Argentine ex-president is under house arrest, wishing her “the strength to... Read more »

Lula hugs it out with Milei, but saves warm embrace for Fernández de Kirchner

The sharp divides roiling Latin American politics were visible in a pair of hugs. The first was a stiff and awkward squeeze between Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentina’s Javier... Read more »

Lawyers demand release of anti-Espert ‘K’ protesters

Defence lawyers for those accused of carrying out a controversial ‘escrache’ protest against La Libertad Avanza deputy José Luis Espert have demanded their immediate release from custody. Together with CELS (Centro de... Read more »

‘The stressed’ – Argentina’s ‘Non-poor’ who can’t reach the end of the month

Soledad is 43 and lives with her 16-year-old son. She’s a municipal employee, also working independently online with a personal enterprise. Combining these posts she earns a monthly income which, according to... Read more »

River rile rivals by breaking bank for Racing’s Maxi Salas

The Club World Cup is still rolling on, but Argentine interest in events up in the United States is now strictly academic.  Boca and River were bounced out of the competition in... Read more »

Challenging overfishing: The craft fishers of Peninsula Valdés

The giant bones wedged into the sand give this corner of Península Valdés the atmosphere of an alien planet: rib-cages over two metres long, buried like lampposts, tilted into an arch. The... Read more »

YPF: How a firm was purchased with its own money, ending in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit

A United States court has ordered Argentina to hand over 51 percent of YPF shares to the beneficiaries of the ruling against the company’s 2012 expropriation by then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In... Read more »