By Mercedes Colombres, Media Director, Libertad y Progreso (original) Economist Aldo Abram, the invited speaker for an exclusive breakfast for members of Libertad y Progreso, hosted at the Feirs Park Hotel with support from the Naumann Foundation, envisioned a difficult path for the […]
Tag: Peronism
How can populism govern without money?
By Agustín Etchebarne, Director, Libertad y Progresso Originally published in Ambito Financiero. Courtesy of Libertad y Progresso. The uncertainty generated by the possible triumph of the Peronist Fernández-Fernández ticket in Argentina is big and impossible to dismiss at the moment. Naturally, the markets […]
Sorry, Portuguese recovery was no “miracle”
Colombia may be the home of magic realism as a literary movement, but Argentina seems to be the home of magical thinking as a governing philosophy. The latest trend in magical wish fulfillment has Argentines looking across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal, which supposedly […]
Anticlimax In The Antipodes: Retracing Argentina’s (latest) debacle
Argentinean President Maurico Macri’s defeat in the country’s national open primary augurs ill for the beleaguered reformer’s program of fiscal responsibility, which Macri himself has already dispatched with a technical default on the country’s bonds as well as the reimposition of capital and currency […]
Argentina can’t shake decades of misgovernment
The election of Mauricio Macri as Argentine president in 2015 was widely viewed as an encouraging development for Argentina and South America generally, as he promised to restore fiscal responsibility, rein in government spending and revive the country’s economic fortunes. But Macri’s administration has encountered […]