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Marcelo J. García

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Past articles by Marcelo:

Can Pope Francis Deliver a Debt Miracle for Argentina?

President Alberto Fernández is seeking a little help to avert economic default. → Read More

Midterms campaign on ‘listening’ mode

By Marcelo J. García / For The Herald - Politics & the press → Read More

A tale of two cracks

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Lanata returns and gives a safe space to Mariu, as campaigning ahead of midterms officially starts The country is officially on the campaign trail, starting this morning. Only now? True, political leaders seem to have been hunting for votes for quite some time. And they have. Starting today, howeve → Read More

The new normal

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Donald Trump’s assaults on the press and the proposed Cablevision-Telecom merger raise questions about the future While the world tries to figure out what to do with Donald Trump, Donald Trump continues to do whatever he wants with, well, if not the world then at least his immediate surrou → Read More

Smells like 2015

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - The political establishment is reluctant to let voters have a say in the PASOs The politics of 2017 smell like those of 2015. The country’s political establishment has presented the public with an electoral offering that does little to move the country forward and, instead, risks getting it s → Read More

As polarised as it gets

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Fox News is dropping its ‘fair and balanced’ slogan, but its impact By now we know that certain types of marketing are the first form of what we now call “fake news.” Just over 20 years ago, Fox News stormed into the monochord “liberal” landscape of cable news ne → Read More

What if the midterms aren’t so important?

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - The coming election is dominating the headlines, but perhaps it isn’t that crucial at all The midterm electoral year has a reached a turning-point. Starting this week and concluding next week, the political establishment will present its offerings. After that, the momentum will move → Read More

When past talk means present failure

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Resorting to the ‘past’ as a mind-numbing campaign slogan is nothing new in Argentine politics Argentina’s cyclical political life always returns to a similar beginning. The pre-electoral season is on, ahead of the August 13 primaries and the October 22 general midterm elections, → Read More

Back to the sources

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Watergate legends remind the press how to find ‘the best obtainable version of the truth’ Reporting is about getting “the best obtainable version of the truth.” This is the line the two famed Watergate journalists, Bod Woodward and Carl Bernstein, have been repeating for yea → Read More

The Clarín Group is watching you

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Influential media company explores the world of metered paywalls Since 2014, the Clarín local newspaper has been monitoring the reading habits of its 1.3 million web users. Starting April 24, the web version of the newspaper became the first publication in Argentina to introduce a metered pa → Read More

Macri’s gradual ‘cultural change’

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - The president promised to unify all Argentines, but there’s not much of that so far President Mauricio Macri is trying to introduce, gradually but steadfastly, a cultural change in Argentina. It has many facets. In the economy, Macri believes that the country should concentrate on sectors th → Read More

Macri’s Autumn comeback

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Poor economic results do not appear to be a deterrent for this head of state, who appears to be as confident as he’s ever been since taking office After a horrible March, the government had a fairly good April and is hoping for a better May. So far this year, the Mauricio Macri administration → Read More

Trump’s 100 meet Macri’s 500

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Poor poll numbers for the US president as the Casa Rosada gets an easy ride in the Argentine mainstream press Donald Trump celebrates his 100th day in office tomorrow in very much the same way he started it: fighting the media. Will this continue for the remaining 1,361 days of his (first) term? T → Read More

The politics of stereotypes

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Battle lines are being drawn up ahead of the October midterms Two months from now, the politicos of the land will be engaged in feverish negotiations to write down the electoral slates for the August primary and the October midterms elections. But names aside, the stage is already set and the main → Read More

It’s not the economy, stupid

By Marcelo J. García / For The Herald - Politics & the press → Read More

Macri picks electoral foe: windmills

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - Government resorts back to the strategy of dividing rather than uniting Argentines The government decided its political strategy for the electoral year. Resigned not to be capable of expanding support in the short term, it will instead feed its diehard and solid fan base. The equation is simple. A → Read More

Too much navel-gazing

By Marcelo J. García (For The Herald) - A politicised remembrance day — but most people care about poverty, jobs and the economy The political and media establishment look the other way — and gaze at their navels. Argentina is facing some relevant problems: the official numbers confirmed this week that one of every three Arge → Read More

Is Macri painting himself into a political corner?

Is Macri painting himself into a political corner? → Read More