Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner sails to victory

October 25 2011
It’s no great suprise that Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won Sunday’s presidential elections. Local and international media have long predicted that her re-election would be relatively uncontested – and no last minute hiccups stopped her steamrolling to victory, with 54 per cent of the vote, as activists and party henchman gathered to hear her acceptance speech in a Buenos Aires hotel....

Sustainable growth?

September 26 2011
All eyes were on Washington last Tuesday when the IMF published its World Economic Outlook, predicting global national growth rates for 2011-2012... 

Without a trace

September 19 2011

Distorted sound fizzes out of a stack of battered speakers in the back of a pick-up truck. Giant banners and the red flags of left-wing groups flutter in the breeze against the backdrop of the Palacio del Congreso, Buenos Aires' neoclassical celebration of state power...

Pressing concerns

August 28 2010
‘You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists’. George W Bush’s famous words could seemingly be applied to what’s happening in Argentina at the moment: you’re either with the government or you're suspected of colluding with the last dictatorship (1976-83)...

Never forget

June 22 2010
Not long ago, the building would have been the pride of the armed forces...