Bolsonaro’s family dynasty creaks under pressure of Brazil coup trial

Eduardo Bolsonaro wanted a win, and when US President Donald Trump in July threatened to hit Brazil with 50 percent tariffs, he believed he had one. Four months earlier, the 41-year-old had... Read more »

Diego Spagnolo: Milei’s ex-lawyer caught up in bribery audio leaks

While Javier Milei was piecing together his government team, he asked for only one appointment: he wanted his friend and former lawyer Diego Spagnuolo in a prominent position. At the end of... Read more »

Greedy and corrupt libertarians? | Buenos Aires Times

As Argentina’s midterm electoral campaign reaches its second and third climaxes, the number of scandalous corruption accusations aimed at the highest echelons of national politics is surging.  The correlation with the electoral... Read more »

Ins and outs of Congress

The candidates for the October midterms were duly defined by last weekend’s deadline but far too many names for any comprehensive coverage in this space – almost 400 in Buenos Aires City... Read more »

Pensioners on the frontline of politics

It has become a tradition in the capital: each Wednesday, baton-wielding riot police corral or confront a band of protesters brandishing signs, shopping bags and walking frames. For sure, these veteran “militants”... Read more »

Analysts give their take on the electoral slates for October election

The political landscape is now set for October: La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and Fuerza Patria closed their lists in an orderly fashion and will be the main protagonists of the election campaign.... Read more »

How can the new centrists kill polarisation?

Second only to Venezuela, Bolivia is the country in Latin America that moved the most to the left over the last two decades. The political pendulum was expected to swing to the... Read more »

Veto swings and roundabouts | Buenos Aires Times

Springtime is still almost a month away for President Javier Milei and the midterm elections another month after then. It would be a cruel irony for him if after throwing the balance... Read more »

All good things come to an end

After decades in which they assured themselves that they had left all that nasty historical stuff behind them and from now on everyone could afford to take things easy, Western politicians and... Read more »

Milei adds a corruption scandal to his mounting list of woes

Reeling from a week of political, economic and financial setbacks in Argentina, President Javier Milei now faces a fresh corruption scandal linked to a top government official. Milei fired Diego Spagnuolo, director... Read more »