13/08/2012 | Columnist

Battle at the extremes

Fisticuffs on a television show and thuggery on dark streets would not, in any normal circumstances, make up an attractive package for undecided voters. But in the gloomy hole of Greek economic life, where every route points...

13/08/2012 | Editorial English

Soy crushing

At a time when the whip-hand over economic policy is supposedly shifting from Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno to Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, the surprise increase of the export duties on biofuels (soy was the expected target) has all...

13/08/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Triturando la soja

12/08/2012 | Columnist

No subway, José

Can the problems of Argentina be compressed and be well represented by one single conflict? Yes, they can. The Buenos Aires subway strike was still going on at the time this column was...

12/08/2012 | Columnist

Press notes: what they don’t want you to know

Old journalists, like old elephants, cannot forget. Memories of just how bad journalism was when I first set foot in Argentina in April, 1959, will not go away.

12/08/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Subterráneo volado III

12/08/2012 | Editorial English

Underground over the top III

Would it not be comforting to imagine that this subway strike was all one big excuse to stay home and watch the London Olympics with underground travel restored as soon as today’s presumably...

11/08/2012 | Editorial English

As clear as oil

11/08/2012 | Editorial Spanish

Claro como el petróleo

11/08/2012 | Columnist

Still not the time for military intervention in Syria