The government of Argentina may be just weeks away from a major debt default. Its years-long gamble on fracking is not the solution.

Last year something wonderful and unexpected happened in Argentina that filled us with hope and put some on alert: the...Read More

It is easy to wax apocalyptic about Argentina. The country may indeed be a very “unfinished utopia,” as the political commentator Ignacio Zuleta once called it, but it’s hardly on the brink of collapse—as much as alarmism is a national neurosis in Argentina. Let’s assume the new president, Alberto Fernández, with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as his vice-president, successfully renegotiates the IMF loan. The four major trade union federations—which are Peronist, after all—as well the social movements led by people like the activist Juan Grabois will surely give Fernández some months’ grace...