Buenos Aires Herald - Commentary

US-Israeli talks, is there any progress?

Sun, 24 May 2009 09:41:50 -0300

By Howard Schneider
The Washington Post

JERUSALEM — Palestinian officials on Monday said they were disappointed that a round of US-Israeli talks in Washington produced no clear progress on the removal of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank or other issues they feel

Power without glory

Fri, 29 May 2009 09:42:27 -0300

Is panic contagious?

Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:41 -0300

Now that swine flu has become a tangible reality in this country rather than a distant threat, it is more important than ever to place it in perspective. The disease has certainly escalated rapidly enough in just a few days from a couple of isolated cases to dozens of patients (doubling from 33 t

The new convertibility

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:27:04 -0300

By Michael Soltys

Paradoxically enough, in a year of supreme crisis for the United States economy with General Motors on the brink of bankruptcy, the US dollar is stronger than ever here with even the indirect complicity of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Power versus power

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:41:04 -0300

Only time will tell if the Federal Planning Ministry’s decision (via ENRE regulatory agency) to deny Edesur the right to pay out dividends represents merely an electioneering stunt or a dangerous shift in policy. Certainly it poses a dangerous precedent, given an increasingly interventionis

Argentinaâs business isnât business

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:31:18 -0300

From his inauguration in 2003 Néstor Kirchner has had a knack for multiplying his enemies and seems to see no reason for stopping now that he is a congressional candidate — without relenting in any way in his demonization of the farming sector, he has evidently singled out industry a

Two-horse race?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:28:32 -0300

To judge from most media coverage, anybody could be forgiven for assuming that only two candidates matter among the thousands vying for seats at the end of this month (when not “testimonial candidates”) — the two main Peronist rivals in Buenos Aires province ex-president N&eacut

Politics on trial

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:18:45 -0300

By Michael Soltys, Senior Editor of Buenos Aires Herald.

It is never a good idea to throw stones from a glass house and least of all when one is largely the builder of the house in which today’s Argentines dwell. Ex-president Néstor Kirchner has evidently dec

Bank wonât thank

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:47:48 -0300

There was good news and bad news for the government on Tuesday — the good news came in the form of World Bank loans totalling over four billion dollars and the bad in the form of some unusually harsh criticisms accompanying the largesse. These criticisms ranged over an extremely broad front

How free, how guilty?

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:39:57 -0300

The 10-month saga of Father Julio Grassi‘s trial for child abuse has finally ended in his conviction and sentence — if indeed it has. The decision to sentence him to 15 years imprisonment while allowing him to remain free pending confirmation of the verdict (another nine of 10 months?