The football season has started – much to Chiqui Tapia’s relief

As we mentioned last week, this summer in Argentina passed at a breakneck pace. The 2026 Liga Profesional de Fútbol is already underway, with more than half the league playing out their... Read more »

Benigno Alarcón Deza: ‘Over 80% of Venezuelans are clamouring for political change’

Venezuelan political scientist Benigno Alarcón Deza, resident in Caracas, is a university professor and the founder of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y de Gobierno at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. In... Read more »

Europe hit by a butterfly’s wings

We have all heard of the butterfly effect, the notion that, by gently flapping its brightly-coloured wings somewhere in the Amazon rainforest, a humble insect could set off a chain of events... Read more »

The Davos rapture and Milei’s Nobel pitch

It was an action-packed week for the “new world order,” emerging after the “rupture” of the old set of rules, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.  Speaking at Davos – the... Read more »

Waking up from anti-woke? | Buenos Aires Times

President Javier Milei has said more than once that he might be mad but no idiot with his speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos last Wednesday a case in point.... Read more »

The forgotten reform | Buenos Aires Times

Absolutely central to the passage of the labour reform (and almost all the Congress bills to follow) is the assent of the provincial governors controlling the deputies and senators needed to take... Read more »

Crossfire for AFA’s top brass amid persistent corruption claims

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) is headquartered at Viamonte Street in Buenos Aires City, but the true address of power is not on Google Maps – it is a network of relationships,... Read more »

Milei, Trump and the irresistible allure of founding a new UN

Argentina was one of the 50 signatory nations to the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference in June 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close. It managed... Read more »

Trump takes Davos on wild ride

It was a moment that said it all about Donald Trump’s wild 24 hours in Davos. The US president had just given a speech in which he suddenly ruled out the use... Read more »

Trump unveils ‘Board of Peace’, talks up ‘New Gaza’ plans at Davos

US President Donald Trump kicked off his new “Board of Peace” at Davos on Thursday, with a signing ceremony for a body with a US$1-billion membership fee and a controversial list of... Read more »