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.
It’s difficult to gauge the strength of a storm when you’re in the middle of it. At first glance, Wednesday night’s downpour looked like just another bout of hard rain and hail.
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...
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...
Dilma Rousseff’s two-day trip to Washington and Boston should really be viewed in the reverse mirror. The near-sighted Mr. Magoos can take their magnifying-glasses to what it wasn’t...
Karl Marx once said, “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce”. That is just as well. When Isabel Perón inherited the presidency from her husband, the dirty war between the...
Argentine Football Association (AFA) chief Julio Grondona presented his new format for the 2013/14 season which is supposed to be decided on April 24. In the top division the plan roughly contemplates...
In the 1970s when anti-US demonstrations swept Latin America, a familiar sight was the graffiti “Yankee Go Home.” On the road to Ezeiza Airport the words were painted on a bridge...
It’s hard to keep up with the news. But it’s even harder to keep up with non-news. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, according to many reports issued with much anticipation, was...
Drunk on cheap money and awash with late-night promises, the minders of the eurozone last week awoke from their stupor with a start. Peering about the cupboard with an eye on...