.... Jonathan Power compares the pope’s silence to the courage of Brazil’s church hierarchy, which stood up to dictatorship. Power urges the pope to explain exactly what went on and how the Argentine church erred. The pope’s admission, Powers argues, would inspire his followers to think more profoundly about...

... office. Of course, Macri is not the only famous Argentine who is or has been in psychotherapy. A few months ago, Pope Francis vented in an interview with a French sociologist that when he was in his early 40s he sought the services of a female psychoanalyst in order “to clarify certain things.” (He...

... in Argentina, a figure the government adamantly rejects. Facing global economic uncertainty, the Argentine government under the leadership of its firebrand left-wing president, Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, is bucking conventions of international trade and intervening in the economy in the name...

... the to fix the country then and they do not government confiscated bank accounts and know how to fix it now. converted Argentines’ savings into bonds. From the government in Buenos Aires When his crime— if demanding one’s own to the international technocrats in Washing­ money...

.... political instability that more or less fol­ The current crisis is perplexing to many lowed a consistent pattern. A president Argentines (and scholars abroad) because, would make crowd-pleasing promises on for the first time ever, Argentina in the which he or she would fail to deliver. Pro­...

... money after leaving the government”—has, like other financially savvy expats and Argentines, been using the currency black market here the past two years. Foreigners can get far more pesos for their dollars. Locals often have no other option to get dollars. Argentina’s currency black market has...

... security. The rise in production of genetically modified soybeans is paradoxically the largest problem for Argentine food security. Since the late 1990s, Argentina has experienced an agricultural boom after the introduction of genetically modified soybeans. While this genetic modification does...

...Anna Edgerton; Ina Sotirova Anna Edgerton, a journalist based in New York, is a former editorial assistant at World Policy Journal. She recently returned from Buenos Aires where she worked at the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Ina Sotirova is a multimedia journalist based in New York who has...

... covenant between man and nature—from Charles Thay’s estate in the Argentine pampa to Roberto Burle Marx’s garden outside Rio de Janeiro and Edward James’ Mexican folly in Xilitla. There is a much smaller garden at the headquarters of the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean...

... Brazil’s right-wing pointment” with the “leftward drift” of the dictatorships. Yet Lula has not pursued a Argentine government.16 Buenos Aires has deeper relationship with Cuba to the extent publicly ridiculed such admonitions, but many anticipated, a fact that is consistent shows signs of backing...

... the country’s g d p and 2002. The percentage of Argentines back to 1993 levels.1 This economic melt­ that responded in the affirmative to the down proved devastating to what only a question “Is democracy preferable to any year previously had been Latin America’s other kind of government?” increased...

... Méndez, an Argentine lawyer, human rights leader, and a torture survivor, the commission marked the end of “the old business as usual way of dealing with violations by forgiving and forgetting and sweeping the violations under the rug and by essentially yielding to the blackmail of military...

... billion in the case of Thailand to $57 billion 6 o WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • WINTER 2002/03 for South Korea, made on condition that 2002, total domestic Argentine financial they would be used to repay creditors. These assets...

... Sources: Transgender Europe, Human Rights Watch, Argentine Ministry of Interior and Transportation, Nepali Ministry of Foreign Affairs Designed by Meehyun Nam Thompson WINTER 2016 / 2017...

..., 1973, a U.S.-backed military coup ended over 40 years of democracy in Chile. In the mid-1970s, the Argentine military government launched a so-called dirty war that “disappeared” somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 individuals. In the late 1970s and 1980s, a number of Central American countries fell...

... government of Nestor Kirchner, Fernández’s husband. Still, despite advances in women’s political participation and in laws on gender violence and equal marriage, Argentine journalist Alejandra Waigandt believes the nation “was not at all ready to receive a woman. The ferocity with which she was treated...

... is forecasting bad times for the Argentines this year and next. The IMF predicts that Argentina’s GDP will grow a paltry 0.4 percent in 2015 and shrink by 0.7 percent in 2016. The second group of nations includes those hit by lower commodity prices who will nevertheless manage to sustain positive growth...

... and encouraging private- keted to the same investors who buy sub- sector banks to help restructure Turkey’s investment-grade U.S. corporate debt, so a debt, followed by a $40 billion rescue pack­ rise in the risk premium for this market— age aimed at heading off an Argentine de­ now euphemized as “high...

..., and food will be labelled or marketed as belonging to particular nations. The food we consume, that is being advertised to us, is increasingly shown as national. We have become accustomed to the idea that our coffee is Turkish, the mustard English, the salad dressing French, the beef Argentine. Most...

... Trade Organization, the Chinese market has increasingly opened up to foreign imports—Brazilian soy, Argentine beef, European luxury goods, and American gadgets. But Indian brands are notable for their absence. India’s renowned service giants—pharmaceuticals, information technology, and financial...