11/04/2012 | Editorial English

Who’s who in Mercosur

While local politics grow increasingly involuted (Prosecutor-General Esteban Righi’s exit points to tensions within the ruling party as much as between parties), two events on Monday served as a reminder of a Mercosur under an Argentine presidency...

10/04/2012 | Columnist

Briefly back on the agenda

Yesterday’s visit of Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff to Washington DC and President Barack Obama’s presence in the Summit of the Americas this coming weekend, in Colombia, will briefly put...

10/04/2012 | Editorial Spanish

El precio de los precios

10/04/2012 | Editorial English

The price of prices

The battle over YPF oil and the saga of Vice-President Amado Boudou might be dominating the headlines in most newspapers but insufficient attention is being paid to inflation as the root of all evil — an inflation which can only accelerate as the Central Bank...

09/04/2012 | Columnist

Cash in hand

Easter comes and goes, but the homespun morality tales that make up the bulk of European politics in these times of crisis know no off-season. Across the north of the...

09/04/2012 | Analysis

Hollande rides mood as France embraces left

09/04/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Poniendo los frenos

09/04/2012 | Editorial English

Slamming on the brakes

Any illusions of omnipotence which Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno might have felt from the dent made in Argentina’s imports over the last couple of months should be...

08/04/2012 | Columnist

Democracy: so near, so far

Ever since I resumed my life in Argentina, so rudely interrupted by the military dictatorship, I have been haunted by a question that, as yet, has no clear answer.

08/04/2012 | Editorial English

Easter sacrifices

Today’s celebration of resurrection seems to be a good time to think of those for whom there is no return — for the victims of the ferocious hailstorm during Easter week, who have now reached 17, and also the lives lost to violent crime, a constant scourge unlike Wednesday’s freak weather.