Buenos Aires: a Vanishing Identity

The avenues have not lost their peculiarity and melancholy scenes, yet there is a feeling that time is going under your feet… of Buenos Aires melting under the sun and draining down the gutters. It is as if the afternoon were too heavy to carry for the Latin American Paris. The same wind that rushes past…

2017 Argentine Midterms: Dilemma of the Right-Wing

The right-wing Peronist nationalism is underrepresented in parliament and in elections. It would not be far-fetched to say that the party closest to Peronist Nationalism is the far-right, Bandera Vecinal, although this party has never had a strong presence in national elections. To make Massa’s position even more complex, he has apparently been discussing a coalition with Stolbizer`s progressive party for the 2017 legislative elections, which would leave right-wing Peronism totally unrepresented. To be sure, last week, the newspaper Clarín showed Massa in a meeting with “Rudy” Giuliani, future member of Trump’s cabinet, in Washington. Days later he attended Trump’s inauguration, a clear hint at the Argentine right.

Climate Change Threatens Evo Morales

Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Bolivia, has dried up in an astonishingly short time of three years, from 2013-2016. Water diversion and especially global climate change have sucked the water out of this ancient lake. Experts assure that global warming has been the most prominent cause for the lake’s disappearance. Its muddy waters…

Will Mauricio Macri tame the Macroeonomic Circus?

Last year Argentina chose Sergio Massa, third runner-up in the 2015 presidential election, as one of the main delegates to represent her at Davos – as evidence of the strength of the coalition that had recently taken over. Now they have sent a team of experts to convince the world they have got the economy under control, have they been successful?