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Chinese culture is an untapped source of soft power

This piece is part of the Argentine-Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s monthly column in the Buenos Aires Herald. Soft power is a concept developed by...

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How Argentine politics is changing Milei

Javier Milei didn’t just promise to fix Argentina’s economy when he entered politics. He promised to make Argentina’s traditional way of doing politics...

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Why should a media outlet run an art gallery?

Journalism and art share an obsession: reality.  While one of them loses sleep over facts, concision, and urgency, the other opens up the...

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Milei mistakes provocation for diplomacy

Javier Milei arrived in So Paulo as president of Argentina and spoke as though he were still on the campaign trail. At the...

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The match Argentina can win in China

This piece is part of the Argentine-Chinese Chamber of Commerces monthly column in theBuenos Aires Herald. While Argentina views football as part of...

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How 1776 lit a continent

*Diego Herna Armesto is a lawyer with advanced studies in Human Rights (American University, College of Law). Former lecturer at the University of...

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The populist right is not a bloc anymore

For years, the populist right liked to imagine itself as an international bloc.  Brexit gave it a launchpad in 2016. Donald Trump gave...

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Venezuela is thousands of kilometers away. I still feel it in my bones

I had been living in Buenos Aires for 8 years when my cousins arrived at my apartment in 2017 after fleeing Venezuela. The...

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Chinese tourism is an opportunity for Argentina

This piece is part of the Argentine-Chinese Chamber of Commerces monthly column in theBuenos Aires Herald. Since the pandemic, Chinese tourists have established...

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Borges, the man who turned Argentine literature into a laboratory

History likes symmetries and mild anachronisms, but it’s hard to place a final form on what emerges from the events themselves and their...