26/04/2012 | Editorial English

As smooth as oil

The Senate was poised to pass last night the YPF expropriation bill with a huge majority including considerable opposition support and every prospect of equally smooth passage in the Lower House — amid all the nationalistic rhetoric fuelling this bandwagon...

27/04/2012 | Editorial English

Oil for us or US?

Perhaps nothing illustrates the open-ended outcome of the YPF expropriation better than the relationship with the United States — while on Wednesday the Washington State Department undersecretary for the hemisphere Roberta Jacobson expanded...

28/04/2012 | Editorial English

Make thee mightier yet?

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner might just have cause to look back in the future at yesterday’s Vélez Sársfield rally as the peak of her power — although nobody should bet on it since the “now we’re going for the whole hog”...

29/04/2012 | Editorial English

Drugs on the job

Washington State Department’s Roberta Jacobson has received corroboration from an unlikely source after complaining last Wednesday of deficient co-operation against drug-trafficking as one...

30/04/2012 | Editorial English

YPF — the next steps

Peronist movement founderJuan Domingo Perón liked to say: “When I define, I exclude” to explain his ideologically hybrid politics and his maxim would seem to be alive and well among his political...

02/05/2012 | Editorial English

The working-class goes to heaven

May Day yesterday may not have seen the traditional CGT rally while its secretary-general Hugo Moyano faces a chill winter but this does not mean a lost decade for the working-class — on the...

03/05/2012 | Editorial English

Yielding Paltry Fuel

f the economic nationalism underlying the YPF expropriation is entirely typical of the Kirchner presidencies since 2003, so is a day-to-day approach to politics (a short term which has now lasted almost a decade) and the most immediate reality is...

04/05/2012 | Editorial English

Yes, Please, Follow II

Thursday’s Lower House passage of the YPF expropriation could hardly be a stronger display of domestic force to the outside world — 208 of the 257 deputies including votes from every single political persuasion except the centre-right PRO (as against...

05/05/2012 | Editorial English

Yes, Please, Follow II

06/05/2012 | Editorial English

Fiercer, harder, stronger

Just as the nationalization of the YPF oil giant has been accompanied by a new interest in non-conventional resources, so the parallel drive for Malvinas sovereignty seems to have veered...