06/04/2012 | Editorial English

The real battleground

If the government has very visibly been using Malvinas and oil nationalism as a smokescreen for the real difficulties like inflation, energy shortfalls and an increasingly complex crime problem, its critics run the risk of creating a distraction of their own if they attach more significance to the Amado Boudou...

07/04/2012 | Editorial English

The real battleground

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.

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...

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...

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...

12/04/2012 | Editorial English

Cámpora versus Cámpora?

The resignation of Prosecutor-General Esteban Righi has potentially profound institutional implications for the independence of justice (especially prosecutors) but it also presents a supreme political paradox— a key minister of the 1973 Héctor Cámpora presidency...

13/04/2012 | Editorial English

Repose amid the storm

he names Reposo and Repsol are almost anagrams of each other and between them they represent two momentous issues which could define the course of events well beyond this year — namely, the independence of justice should the ultra-loyalist...

14/04/2012 | Editorial English

The reason why not

Downpedalling the anticipatedannouncement of national sovereignty over black gold to the local production of Milka chocolate bars might not be quite going from the sublime to the ridiculous but it is definitely an anti-climax. Various factors gave...

15/04/2012 | Editorial English

Not how much but how

At its worst the “cash-box” approach to politics degrades public life but even at its best it fosters the illusion that throwing money at a problem is the best way to solve it...