Former FT correspondent in LatAm, in Buenos Aires, Caracas and Mexico City 2005-21. Now back in the Cotswolds. Beamer, gleaner & dreamer. Vive bene!
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And for those wanting Argentina context, @BEAMander's piece on beef featuring @keziamckeague is where to look
When Argentina has currency problems, it relies on populist measures to quell unrest
on.ft.com/3v3ZqES via @FT – at Birmingham, AL
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Genial artículo de @BEAMander en el @FinancialTimes sobre @Mercadolibre. No es todos los días que tenemos una nota así sobre LatAm. Felicidades Marcos y equipo! How MercadoLibre emerged as an ecommerce titan via @FT
on.ft.com/2Hwsb9K
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Latest from @BEAMander, the @FT man in Buenos Aires: Argentina on ‘collision course’ towards currency devaluation on.ft.com/33RBIQU
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Lyrical, thoughtful, clever tribute to one of Latin America’s greats: Quino, cartoonist, who created Mafalda ft.com/content/0c291b97-3ce4… via @financialtimes
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The day after a military coup in Argentina, a picture of Mafalda appeared in a newspaper. The sparse comic strip promoted by intellectual giants such as Umberto Eco, Julio Cortázar, Eric Hobsbawm said: “So, what they taught me at school . . . ”
ft.com/content/0c291b97-3ce4… @BEAMander
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It has been the honour of a lifetime to share bylines, laughs, and drinks with @jude_webber @BEAMander @gideon_long @leahyjoseph @bryanhimself @Jonthn_Wheatley and @JohnMoncureFT. I'll miss you all, dearly.
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With Argentina in default for a ninth time, many in Mendoza are openly discussing secession—and they'd take their vineyards with them.
What we're reading, by @BEAMander: on.ft.com/30H3VqN
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Argentine media is still commenting FT's last Sunday interview with @alferdez but his correspondent, the great @BEAMander, wants more. Don't miss his new piece: Argentina’s Peronist president on the virtues of Henry Ford capitalism ft.com/content/9d9ae572-cb3b… via @financialtimes.
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Malbectina - ‘Mendoexit’: Argentina’s wine country wonders whether to go it alone ft.com/content/a64ffd0d-42e8… great read by @BEAMander
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In his first interview with the foreign press in Argentina since taking office in December, Alberto Fernández told el gran @BEAMander: “Do I talk to Cristina? Yes. Do I care about her ideas? Yes of course but the one who takes decisions here is me.”ft.com/content/ea410bee-8985…
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Argentine president @alferdez tells FT: our final debt offer IS final: @BEAMander interview I ft.com/content/ea410bee-8985… via @financialtimes
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Excelente reportaje a @alferdez qué le hizo @BEAMander para el @FT!!
Felicitaciones @BEAMander !!
Argentine president to creditors: ‘We can’t do any more’ ft.com/content/ea410bee-8985…
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Murder, sex, corruption and power - the start of a new genre: Argentine noir // Violent killing of Cristina Fernández’s former aide roils Argentina via @FT @BEAMander
on.ft.com/2ZYrHhU
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Siempre Cuervo, siempre - gracias, @BEAMander por ésta joya. Football clubs patch up Argentina’s fraying social fabric ft.com/content/e65e2eb5-e1d4…
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Mamma mia! Here we go again: Argentina on brink of default as it wrangles with bondholders ft.com/content/5c042213-85fa… by @BEAMAnder and @colbyLsmith
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Intv : Argentina finance minister reveals he has rejected a counter offer from BlackRock- led creditors - Argentina ready to consider 9th sovereign default, Guzmán tells @BEAMander via @FinancialTimes
ft.com/content/cbe90202-0374…
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“It has fit him like a ring on his finger to consolidate power,” says Luis Tonelli, a political scientist, but “If it turns out to be a tsunami, there’s no one who can withstand that”. Covid-19 has silver linings for Argentina’s president ft.com/content/0c43684d-3aae… by @BEAMander
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What we're reading:
Prioritizing feeding the masses over having them go to Sunday mass, so-called “slum priests” in Argentina are working to fill the gap left by the state as Peronism has a resurrection of sorts.
By @BEAMander: bit.ly/2J25iIG
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Really great piece from @BEAMander on Argentina -- Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina ft.com/content/bb85da28-ea27… via @financialtimes
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Who we're reading this week: @marybsheridan @jbenton, @Murillo1102 @BEAMander @SquigglyVolcano @BBC100women @JohnOtis
El Chasqui is out!
This week: nearing elections and voter projections. us12.campaign-archive.com/?e…
