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Milei Runs Headlong into the Scaloneta: “In This Land That Is a Wound”
From “Indio” Solari’s Funeral to the Land Law: The Libertarian Government Unnecessarily Shoots Itself in the Foot By Lucas Malaspina A chapter that would amend Law 26,737, which since 2011 has limited foreign ownership of rural land to 15%, changed the political landscape: the government offered more than fifteen changes in an effort to secure…
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Caution: In Bolivia, Paz Takes Office Because the “Shock” Lost
This text does not seek to take sides with any particular actor. My goal is to analyze what the new Bolivian government can and cannot do given the state of the economy, the composition of Congress, and social pressure, and what implications this structural limitation has for politics, organizations, and decision-makers in the country. The…
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2025: Argentina for Non-Argentines
If you’re not Argentine and, whether for professional reasons or personal interest, you’re trying to understand what happened in the midterm parliamentary election on Sunday, October 26, this might help you. If you have any comments, questions, or criticisms, they’re welcome—feel free to leave them below, and I’ll almost certainly respond.
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Bolivia 2025: First Runoff and Record Number of Null Votes (Paz Pereira vs. “Tuto” Quiroga)
The following article was published in the magazine “Relato” Nº17 (September 2025), and I wrote it at the suggestion of my Uruguayan colleague Federico Irazábal. The full issue can be read here. Contrary to predictions and polls that had Samuel Doria Medina (who served as minister of planning in the early 1990s) as a shoo-in…
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Ángel Beccassino: “Things are shat out without even being metabolized”
There are people who accumulate lives while others barely complete one. Ángel Beccassino—writer, journalist, photographer, musician, political consultant—is one of them. He was born in San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, in 1948, studied philosophy and economics without graduating, and from a young age knew that he wanted to see what lay beyond the next bend…
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Galia Moldavsky: “We need tools to speak to this era”
Galia Moldavsky holds a degree in sociology from UBA and trained as a journalist at TEA. She started out at the Política Argentina website, was a producer for Metro y Medio—Sebastián Wainraich’s show on Radio Metro—hosted Te aviso, te anuncio on Congo alongside Jesicall, was part of Mejor País del Mundo with Diego Iglesias on…
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Kevin Grunbaum: “Social media has transformed how we connect”
There’s one question Kevin Grunbaum learned to anticipate early in his career: And what use is this to me? More experienced consultants would ask it whenever he presented data to them. They kept asking it. And that question, rather than discouraging him, ended up defining his work: it’s not enough to download thousands of mentions or to…
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Trump, Kamala, and Everything That Doesn’t Add Up
By Lucas Malaspina Last week I was on the “Humo” livestream, talking about the U.S. elections. It was one of those conversations where you start in one place and end up somewhere else. I kept thinking about several things over the next few days and decided to organize my thoughts here, because I feel there…
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Mariana Gené: “What it takes to be a political operator is one thing; what it takes to be president is another”
Mariana Gené: “What it takes to be a political operator is one thing; what it takes to be president is another” By Lucas Malaspina Mariana Gené is a political sociologist and CONICET researcher who teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels at the IDAES School of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). She holds…
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Gaba Najmanovich: “Consumers Want to Return to Flesh-and-Blood Human Contact”
Born Gabriela Najmanovich, also known as “Gaba,” she is Argentine and a strategic trends consultant. I started following her because of an article published in the magazine Aguinaldo, titled En Defensa de lo Grasa (available only in print). I loved that piece. She has a background in journalism and design; she studied at the UBA…
