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 »

Stories that caught our eye: June 27 to July 4

  YPF BOMBSHELL Last Monday Manhattan judge Loretta Preska ordered Argentina to hand over 51 percent of YPF shares within the next fortnight to the hedge funds Eton Park and Burford, plaintiffs... Read more »

Yesterday’s Petrol Fiasco | Buenos Aires Times

Manhattan judge Loretta Preska’s controversial ruling setting a fuse of a fortnight on the US$16-billion time-bomb compensating speculative interests for the nationalisation of YPF oil company with its shares needs to be... Read more »

Luxury boom masks despair among the masses

The housing market is thriving in Javier Milei’s Argentina. Cars are flying off the lots, and major airlines are adding Buenos Aires flights to meet surging travel demand. Yet restaurants are evermore... Read more »

We need to talk about Conan

Since Javier Milei became president, many rulebooks have been thrown out the window. Political life in Argentina has turned into a series of disruptive, novel, even revolutionary events. However, there’s hardly any... Read more »

Anti-Milei sentiment growing among Argentina’s elites

There’s a growing feeling among certain groups of elites that the Javier Milei administration will fail at some point in the near future. These small but influential groups of people span from... Read more »

Milei hurt by yet another time bomb

In most democratic countries, government members and their supporters alike assume that their political fate will depend largely on their ability to manage the economy. They rarely pretend to represent something far... Read more »

A Massacre’s Impunity Abides | Buenos Aires Times

Impossible to measure the scandal of the continued impunity enjoyed by the 1994 terrorist bomb destruction of the AMIA Jewish community centre since those first moments of horror 31 years ago yesterday... Read more »

Anatomy of a macrocephalic | Buenos Aires Times

The tyrannies of a midweek press time for this column means that in this age of instant communications a full analysis of the electoral alliances in Buenos Aires Province is reaching the... Read more »

Banks face liquidity crunch as peso yields soar

Interest rates on Argentine peso notes are soaring across the board, piling pressure on banks amid a liquidity crunch caused by government efforts to defend the local currency. The one-day peso repo... Read more »