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Argentina’s recent elections have set the country’s right on the path to defeat. But that won’t immediately put the working class back in the driver’s seat — much greater mobilization is needed for that.
The thumping electoral defeat of neoliberal president Mauricio Macri is a major political event (...)
Mauricio Macri came into office promising to stem corruption and bring down inflation. But his austerity policies have left Argentina’s economy in shambles.
Mauricio Macri, the businessman-turned-politician about to complete his first term as Argentina’s president, is up for reelection later (...)
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The current situation is visibly unstable, fragile, uncertain. Any analysis runs the risk of getting old quickly. There are several factors provoking social and political instability: the worsening economic crisis, increasing social conflict and the (now slightly obscured) “Centeno affair” (...)
Our correspondent went to the deserts of Patagonia to examine how China secured its new base, a symbol of its growing clout in the region. [The many photos – by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times – are not reproduced here. See the original article.]
QUINTUCO, Argentina — The giant antenna rises (...)
Body found in icy river could sway Argentina’s midterm elections
Tests confirm body is Santiago Maldonado, an activist missing since a security forces raid in August.
A body found floating in the icy waters of a southern Argentina river could determine the result of midterm elections seen as (...)
The Trade Union Struggle to Overcome the Obstacles of Transnational Capital: The Pharmacists’ Union in Argentina and its Current Challenges
A case study by Bruno Dobrusin
On Bayer Argentina’s 100th anniversary, a group of company employees mobilised at a celebration event being held at the (...)
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This year, Argentina faces a series of elections, including the election of a new president. Most commentators on the left see the likely successor to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (known colloquially as “CFK”) to be one of three candidates, all poised to move the country (...)
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Since winning last year’s presidential election in Argentina, the conservative Mauricio Macri has carried out an onslaught against the working class and social movements. His drive to impose neoliberal austerity measures and to escalate repression against dissent has led to wide (...)
Since conservative Mauricio Macri became Argentina’s president following elections last November, he has spearheaded an offensive against the country’s working class and social movements. Claudio Katz, a longtime Argentine political activist, member of Economistas de Izquierda and author of (...)
Mauricio Macri, the right-wing candidate of the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) Party, was elected president of Argentina in November 2015, ending twelve years of government by the center Left, Peronist governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In the following, Caroline Kim of (...)
Milagro Sala, president of Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, was detained on 16 January during a protest. We the undersigned – British, European and American academics – are concerned about the arbitrary detention by the Argentinian government of Milagro Sala. Milagro is a parliamentary (...)
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In the run-up to Argentina’s national elections in October, a scramble for power has divided the incumbent Peronista party into warring factions. Founded by Juan Perón in 1946, the Partido Justicialista ruled through sometimes radical nationalism, state intervention in the economy, (...)
Scholars have sometimes noted that Argentinian history seems unusually punctuated by periods of booming prosperity followed by dramatic collapse. The most recent manifestation of this was of course the four-year economic crisis that culminated in 2001, in which attempts by successive regimes to (...)
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 midterm elections were held in Argentina and their results may have important consequences for the country and the region. Franck Gaudichaud interviewed Claudio Katz and Eduardo Lucita, members of the EDI (Economists of the Left) collective. Franck Gaudichaud – How do (...)
The Argentine Government has just expropriated 51% of the shares of the Spanish multinational Repsol, majority partner in the historic Argentine oil company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF), completely privatized during the 1990s. As in the case of the flagship airline Aerolineas (...)
This international appeal in defence of Argentina’s right to recover its energy wealth was initiated by the MST (Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores) of Argentina. Buffeted by the energy crisis and faced with Repsol’s failure to respect its obligations, the Argentine government – which has (...)
The unexpected death a few days ago of Nestor Kirchner deprived not only Argentina of a remarkable, albeit controversial leader. It also took away an exemplary figure in the Global South when it came to dealing with international financial institutions.
Kirchner defied the creditors. More (...)
After the defeat of its project for a system of variable taxes on agricultural products, the Argentine government led by Cristina Kirchner has appeared inclined to seek an exit through the satisfaction of the requirements of the financial markets.
Thus it let the exchange rate fall, announced (...)
Argentina, you have been much talked about since the night of 19 to 20 December 2001 when after three years of economic recession your people walked out into the streets to shout their rejection of the neoliberal policies led by Fernando De la Rua and his baleful minister of Economy, Domingo (...)
“The vital impulse of the human being responds to all questions of life before philosophical investigation. The illiterate man does not worry about the relativity of his myth. He could not even understand it. But generally he finds his own way, better than the writer and the philosopher. Since (...)
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