President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, re-elected with 54 percent of the vote last October, was dealing with a number of political fires that were damaging her popularity: the Once train station...
Even the harshest critics of last Monday’s YPF expropriation need to change the issue from national versus foreign ownership as soon as possible (City Mayor Mauricio Macri is already showing the...
Many critics of the YPF expropriation argue that the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration is isolating itself from the world but even with the multiple risks incurred by this nationalistic bravado, is isolation really possible amid today’s globalization?
FIFA chief Joseph Blatter says discussion is the spice of soccer, but he made his point for the wrong reason. As he was against the use of technology in the game, he said referees’ mistakes...
The almost unanimous support in Congress for the expropriation of YPF oil and gas might faithfully reflect public opinion but it also disturbingly evokes the euphoria accompanying the default of late 2001...
Had Cristina wanted nothing more than a chance to give the boys and girls of La Cámpora a big oil company to play with, she could have taken over YPF in an ostentatiously friendly...