Argentina’s Peronists squabble over an agreement with the IMF
Even after two years of negotiations, the government still has a way to go
THE DELTA OF the river Paraná, through which much of Argentina’s exports pass, is an aquatic labyrinth of cross-currents and channels that merge and then separate again. So it is with Peronism, the broad nationalist-populist movement that has governed the country for 25 of the 38 years since democracy was restored in 1983. Power, or its prospect, unites it. But in adversity its constituent currents often take different courses, as a row this week over a proposed agreement with the IMF shows.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Adrift in treacherous currents”
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