By Sunday night, the usually infallible exit polls in France had called a winner. François Hollande, known to his many and varied detractors as a rather dangerous milk pudding, or a...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Taking the long view of Argentina’s economic performance it is possible to extract some comfort from the knowledge that the present is not as crazy as the past.
Has Argentina been here before? Maybe it has. Boom and bust cycles have happened before. But then again maybe Argentina hasn’t been here before. The administration of President Cristina...
After Barcelona were beaten by Real Madrid in the Spanish League and were eliminated by Chelsea in the European Champions League, followed by coach Pep Guardiola announcing that he...
Is Bolivia going down the same road as Argentina? At first sight, and just two weeks after the expropriation of 51 percent of Repsol’s YPF shares by the Cristina Kirchner administration, the...
Cancer is, no doubt, the fiercest battle that Hugo Chávez is facing today. But the mother of all battles is being fought on this side of the Maginot line, on his own turf, among the chavistas.
LONDON — Travelling in England over the past fortnight, I suddenly thought of a perfect title for another book that I will never write. The Best of Enemies would tell the story of...
On Tuesday, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) finally approved the new format for next season and it could have been worse after all the crazy ideas that were bandied about like the 38...
Most Argentines agree that Cristina did the right thing when she deprived Repsol of its share of YPF and, for good measure, made many of the firm’s Spanish executives flee the country to...