Cristina Kirchner

Argentina: poorer and poorer. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Surprise! Argentina is broke. Well, close to it. They’ve offered foreign bond holders a historic low recovery value of 30. Late last year, emerging market bond cowboys still buying Argentina’s Century Bonds in the secondary…

Does anybody have any use for these? A vender holds Argentina pesos wearing rubber gloves to protect ... from the new SARS coronavirus. (Photo by Mario De Fina/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Argentina can’t pay its bills. A hard default is coming. Sorry Century Bond holders. It…

President Fernández with Cristina Kirchner and Mauricio Macri, is at the center of attention. Joaquin Temes As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to expand and taking over headlines, several other issues appear to have become irrelevant. Yet, Argentina is on the verge of presenting an offer to private bondholders in order…

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the new Pope after the resignation of his German predecessor, a wave of euphoria shook Argentina. He was not only the first Latin American Pope but also a beloved member of the Argentine Catholic Church. Bergoglio was well-known and respected because of his work as…

The political use of the judiciary could put Minister Guzman's debt talks at risk. Joaquin Temes At a time of great anxiety in Argentina a non-issue has come to dominate the public agenda: whether or not there are “political prisoners,” and whether the Judiciary is engaged in “lawfare” against officials…

Mexican drug lord Gerardo González Valencia did not choose a good time to settle with his family in Argentina. He arrived in 2009, a year after three pharmaceutical businessmen, Sebastián Forza, Damián Ferrón, and Leopoldo Bina, were kidnapped and killed in an apparent ephedrine dispute that shocked Argentina. Through its local…

On Tuesday I laid out Elliott Management’s case against Jack Dorsey — or at least, what we know about it so far. The activist investor has acquired a roughly 4 percent stake in Twitter, and has reportedly expressed concerns with Twitter’s underperforming stock, its part-time CEO, and Dorsey’s stated plans…

Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentina's farmers announced on Thursday a four-day strike after the government of President Alberto Fernandez increased tariffs on soya exports just three months after already hitting the agricultural sector with higher taxes.Soya is Argentina's biggest export commodity and the government hiked tariffs from 30 to 33…

How can the examples of two successful European journalism startups be useful to a newspaper run by a workers' cooperative in Latin America? This is what Argentine journalist Javier Borelli seeks to understand in the recently released study “Rebooting journalism: how media startups overcame the business model crisis. What can…

In the recently released Global Go To Think Tank Index, Argentina has one of the highest ratios of think tanks to population. The index ranks the country fifth in the world in number of think tanks – five times more per capita than Japan, and twice as much as Canada.…