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 »

Caputo’s ‘buy ‘em up champ’ and Milei’s ‘Epstein moment’

Donald Trump is facing a revolution within his core base. The MAGA movement — the “Make America Great Again” crew who have become loyal militants of the President of the United States... Read more »

A big win in midterms would be bad news for Milei

Two months into the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and three months from the October midterm elections, the President Javier Milei administration continues to prioritise, above all other issues, showing... Read more »