Argentina Project podcast

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Duncan Wood, director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, to discuss Alberto Fernández’s Mexico City jaunt, his first international trip as Argentina’s president-elect.

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Sarah Nielson, an Argentina Project researcher at the Wilson Center and former reporter for the Bubble, an English-language media company in Argentina, to discuss Alberto Fernández’s dog and how young Argentines are shaping the political landscape.

Today’s episode features highlights from “Adelante or Déjà vu?”, our recent seminar on Argentina’s presidential election, co-hosted by the John Hopkins SAIS. La Nación’s Rafael Mathus moderated the panel, featuring our host, Benjamin Gedan; Monica de Bolle, a Johns Hopkins professor and board member of the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program; and Paula Al...

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by phone from Buenos Aires by Demian Bio, who is covering Argentina's presidential election for the leading online Argentine news site, Infobae. They discuss the return of the Peronists, and why the election showed off Argentina’s maturing democracy.

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Nicolás Saldías, a senior researcher at the Wilson Center’s Argentina Project, to discuss how Argentina’s powerful unions and restive social movements could complicate life for whoever wins Argentina’s presidential election.

Host Benjamin Gedan speaks to David Smith, a foreign correspondent for The Economist, former senior UN diplomat and special contributor to the Wilson Center’s Argentina Project, to discuss President Mauricio Macri’s surprisingly energetic, albeit quixotic, campaign to win reelection.

Benjamin Gedan is joined by phone from Buenos Aires by Bloomberg reporter Patrick Gillespie to discuss Patrick’s recent article on Argentina’s collapsing real estate market and the implications for Argentina’s sputtering construction industry. Read Patrick’s article here, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-01/capital-controls-sky-high-rates-crush-argentine-housing-market.

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Kristie Pellecchia, OPIC’s senior adviser for Latin America, to discuss her high-profile trip to Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia; OPIC’s support for female entrepreneurs; and OPIC’s strategy for drawing U.S. investment to a region in the face of rising Chinese engagement.

Host Benjamin Gedan talks to James Bosworth, author of the Latin America Risk Report and CEO of the Hxagon consultancy, to discuss whether President Mauricio Macri's reelection hopes are as far-fetched as polls suggest.

El episodio especial de hoy incluye los hitos del último evento del programa de América Latina, en conjunto con el Proyecto Argentina, con Juan Manuel Urtubey, actual candidato a la Vicepresidencia de Argentina y gobernador de la provincia de Salta; y Kezia McKeague, de McLarty Associates. La discusión se centró en cómo la Argentina cambió totalmente a partir de las primarias del 11 de agosto.

Host Benjamin Gedan sits down with Adrian Bono, founder and CEO of The Essential and the Bubble, two leading English-language publications in Argentina, to discuss how the political stability in Argentina amid economic chaos demonstrates how the country has matured since past crises.

Benjamin Gedan joined a panel of experts in New York City at a seminar co-sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Argentina Project and UBS to discuss the economic drama in advance of Argentina’s election.

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Kezia McKeague, of McLarty Associates, by phone from Buenos Aires, to discuss her recent meeting with leading presidential candidate Alberto Fernández and her advice to U.S. companies trying to answer the biggest mystery in Argentina: the likely economic policies of a Fernández administration.

Host Benjamin Gedan sits down with Stephen Kaplan, a Wilson Center global fellow and George Washington University professor, to discuss why investment in Latin America might not be zero-sum game between China and the U.S.

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by phone from Buenos Aires by Stephen Kaplan, a Wilson Center global fellow and professor at George Washington University to discuss the violent market reaction to Argentina's presidential primaries and whether populism is on its way back.

Host Benjamin Gedan speaks to David Smith, a foreign correspondent for The Economist, former senior UN diplomat, and special contributor to the Wilson Center’s Argentina Project to unpack the results of Argentina’s stunning August 11 primary results. Does Alberto Fernández’s strong showing signal the end of President Mauricio Macri’s chances for re-election and a sharp reversal for his pro-market...

Host Benjamin Gedan sits down with Cynthia McClintock, a professor at George Washington University, a former Wilson Center fellow and the author of “Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America,” to discuss the story behind Argentina’s quirky election system and the moderating power of a presidential runoff.

Host Benjamin Gedan sits down with former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Tony Wayne to discuss the AMIA bombing, Hezbollah's operations in the region and Ambassador Wayne's experience working with different Argentine governments on the AMIA case. Missed our recent Wilson Center event on the AMIA Bombing? Watch the webcast here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/25-years-the-amia-bombing

Host Benjamin Gedan is joined by Wilson Center Latin American Project board member and Brazil expert Monica de Bolle and Wilson Center senior scholar and EU expert George Kopits to discuss the Mercosur-European Union agreement, why it took 20 years to get here, and the likelihood it will go into force.

We interview Francisco Resnicoff, foreign affairs adviser to Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, about the Urban 20; Buenos Aires's efforts to attract technology investment; and the Boston Red Sox return to the World Series.

With Argentina's economy collapsing, we check in on neighboring Uruguay to learn the secret of its success, and whether its neighbor's troubles are crossing the Río de la Plata.

The latest scandal rocking Argentina politics is the release of notebooks from former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's chauffeur detailing years of money delivered to her personal residence and elsewhere. The Bubble's Damien Bio joins the Argentina Project Podcast to discuss what these cuadernos mean for Kirchner and the Argentina political landscape

In the early hours of Thursday morning, the Argentine Senate held a vote on a bill to legalize abortion. While the measure failed, the narrow margin represents a major change in the country. Wilson Center researcher Nicolás Saldías joins host Benjamin Gedan to break down what all of this means.

Former United Nations official David Smith joins host Benjamin Gedan to discuss the fiscal successes of Argentina's Mendoza province. Join us to hear how the pronvince's leadership succeeded, and the potential lessons on the national level.

David Smith joins Ben Gedan the Argentina Project Podcast via Skype to discuss the tentative economic growth in Argentina following an IMF bailout of the Argentine peso