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Latin America columnist for @Opinion Get my views: 🇦🇷 ☆☆☆ Tweeting for myself

Ciudad de México
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Para Siempre 🇦🇷
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Listo, ya completé todo el equipo argentino.. #WorldCup
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A punto de aterrizar en el Aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México, el piloto de Copa CM136 tuvo que abortar la maniobra porque había otro avión en la pista. Es muy preocupante lo que está pasando acá @SCT_mx
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts a FB Live with him just watching Trump's Iran speech on TV 👇
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The Mexican president gives a 2-hour press conference & gets away without answering why the economy contracted in his first year in power, as announced today. A reminder access doesn't necessarily means more transparency..
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Qué mal envejeció este aviso... 👇
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¿Qué tanto agradaron los anuncios de AMLO para Pemex? Solo miren el precio de los bonos de la petrolera - via @TheTerminal 👇
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Mexico's main companies lost $17.5 billion in market value today, which would be enough to pay for the new airport & more..
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Mexican peso now collapsing with oil to 21.30 per dollar via @TheTerminal
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Y mientras dábamos la vuelta en el aire, la ironía...
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The airport cancellation really spooked investors; these XP analysts say in a note that the decision turned Mexico into a "Banana Republic" 👇
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Dude, you're in Condesa, not Cancún. No flip-flops, please -- and other tips for Americans to survive in Mexico City my take for @opinion (includes token for free access)
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Cancun international passenger traffic fell 99.5% in April. Just unbelievable
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AMLO: hay más casos porque se hacen más pruebas rings a bell..
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AMLO's judicial 'reform' needs to be understood for what it is: a cynical power grab after Mexico's Supreme Court ruled against some of his key policies Seen that way, it's not a surprise investors are reacting the way they are my latest for @opinion
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Mexican peso & the Thai Baht are in a neck-and-neck race to be the best performing EM currency this year (vs $) 🇲🇽🇹🇭. Argentine peso the clear loser via @TheTerminal
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Yucatán, donde hay cenotes hasta en el estacionamiento del Costco
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5 - With this election, Colombia joins the ranks of nations in Latin America & elsewhere that have voted in anti-establishment leaders. The demand for an alternative resonated as the pandemic caused a spike in poverty that’s been compounded by inflation
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AMLO confirms he won't attend the WEF in Davos because he is busy fighting gasoline theft & starting his gov. Another contrast with his predecessors, who loved that annual hangout #Davos2019
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A los nada amables ladrones que entraron a mi depto ayer, las laptop entiendo, pero de verdad tenían que llevarse mi tequila!? #condesa
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If anybody thought Mexico would voluntarily cut Pemex' oil production, they haven't been following AMLO very closely #OPECmeeting #OOTT
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Feliz Navidad!
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Venezuela international reax so far: Won't recognize vote: Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica Concerned about result: US, Chile Congratulated Maduro: Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua Silence: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico🦗
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3 years
What's going on with Latam presidents getting haircuts??🤔
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Mexico’s election sparked an incredible number of top analysis & reporting in different formats They collectively amount to invaluable knowledge to help us understand better this fascinating country Here are some of my favs (feel free to add your own & apologies for any miss)🇲🇽
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7 years
How bad are Mexico's public institutions? They rank 125 out of 137 countries analyzed by the @wef -- THAT BAD!
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La bolsa mexicana gana hoy otro 3% y cierra sus dos mejores días consecutivos en casi...10 años! 😆
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Tomorrow seems like a quiet day.. ➙ UK election ➙ Comey testimony ➙ ECB meeting ➙ Brazil court may decide on Temer ➙ Merkel in Argentina
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2 years
Argentina in last 95 years ➞ National Team Managers: 23 ➞ Economy Ministers: 82 #priorities 🇦🇷
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And there goes Argentina's bonds... 📉 via @business
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Uber generates more revenue in Latam than in Europe, Middle East & Africa combined, impressive 👇
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2 years
Por suerte el avión aterrizó sin problemas al segundo intento después de dar la vuelta. Pero estos incidentes son cada vez más frequentes.
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The graph of Mexico's industrial production is really quite something.. via @TheTerminal
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The post-AMLO election peso rally is quite something, +4.3% in 5 days via @TheTerminal #MEX
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3 years
Cinco meses después de empezar la vacunación en América Latina, así van las cosas (% población con full dosis) 🇨🇱 39.9% 🇺🇾 27.6% 🇧🇷 9.7% 🇲🇽 8.9% 🇨🇷 8.6% 🇨🇴 6.1% 🇦🇷 5% 🇸🇻 4% 🇵🇪 2.7% 🇵🇾 0.5% via @business
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64% de los millennials, que ya son la mayor generación activa de 🇲🇽, tiene ingresos menores a 7,200 pesos/mes. Sólo 4% gana +$12 mil 👇 @BWMX
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En Businessweek México de esta semana te contamos el mal deal que sufre la generación millennial - download 👉 @BWMX
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AMLO doubling up - he cancels bids by private contractors & says Pemex itself will build the $8 billion refinery in Tabasco. What could go wrong?
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Lo que más me preocuparía si fuera AMLO no es tanto la bolsa ni el peso sino el rápido encarecimiento de la deuda mexicana; el MBono a 10 años ya toca hoy 8.9%, máximos desde 2010 #Mexico
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Sin esfuerzo conté 31 'top moments' de Leo Messi con el Barça entre miles de jugadas increíbles. Acá van mis cinco (no tan obvios) favoritos #GraciesLeo
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AMLO: 2018: we will grow 4%! 2019: we won't fall into recession! 2020: we fell 1.6%, better than some expected!
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AMLO just said the oil business is 'so good' that's impossible to destroy Pemex the oil business:
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Guzman lasted almost 31 months on the job and that makes him one of the longer-lasting economy minister since Argentina returned to democracy 40 years ago. That tells you how hard this role is..
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Pemex received at least $80 billion in government support since AMLO is president Let that sink in: 80 BILLION DOLLARS And it didn't solve any of the problems the company has.. story on their quarterly results by @squires_esq here:
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4 - Petro's election is likely to shake up Colombia's relations with Washington after being for decades the region’s strongest US ally. Whereas before there was automatic alignment, the White House should now expect at least respectful disagreements
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Powerful imagine in Buenos Aires: Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy hugs Argentina’s new president Javier Milei
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Seen in Buenos Aires
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Condesa
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Mexican stock index recovers all the losses triggered by AMLO's airport cancellation last week; it's now +0.5% since Oct 26 (before the consultation) via @TheTerminal
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Latam's disinflation process has gathered steam in June, led by Brazil 🇧🇷 3.16% (from 3.94%) 🇲🇽 5.06% (from 5.84%) 🇵🇪 6.46% (from 7.89%) 🇨🇱 7.6% (from 8.7%) 🇨🇴 12.13% (from 12.36%) But Argentina continues being the outlier, with annual CPI expected to have reached 118%
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Mexican peso starts the week at 19.33/$, strongest since end of October via @TheTerminal
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I am sure the editors at @TheEconomist would be shocked to find out "tiny" Guyana is almost as big as the UK and much larger than Greece, South Korea or Bangladesh...
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Have some sympathy for us, Mexico-based economics correspondents, who have to see 2 hours 40 minutes of AMLO's presser for a comment on interest rates..
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3 years
Mayor mito de la Ciudad de México: que tiene 'buen clima' 🙄
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Mexican peso diving to 19.32/$ after Trump's tweet on 5% tariff via @TheTerminal
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MBono mexicano a 10 años ya paga más de 9%. Estaba en 7.7% el día después de la elección de AMLO en julio - via @TheTerminal
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tomorrow! mañana!👀 on @BloombergTV
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First time in the bureau in 16 months. I've missed this view 🇲🇽
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Even Ferraris surrender to the gasoline god #DesabastoDeGasolinas #Mexico
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@el_reportero @realDonaldTrump @EPN @PresidenciaMX This is so ridiculous even if EPN was on the moon it's inexcusable
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Venezuela migration seems to have resulted in lower inflation & faster economic growth in Peru, according to central bank research … via @business
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What a climate at the Maracanã, historic day as it's Lionel Messi's first game here #ARG #BOS #WorldCup2014 http://t.co/1LSwYcIY50
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Mexico's resigning Finance Minister Carlos Urzúa breaks his silence and says he opposed several AMLO projects including the $8b refinery, canceling the airport and handling of private contracts by CFE in an interview with @revistaproceso
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En la #NuevaEdici ón de @revistaproceso #LasRazonesDeUrz úa para renunciar. El exsecretario de Hacienda habla del "conflicto de interés" que hay en el gobierno de @lopezobrador_ y le pone nombre y apellido...
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Best return for Odebrecht's bribes? Argentina, of course.. #LavaJato #OdebrechtGate
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A year ago, Mexico kicked off Latin America's Covid vaccination campaign. This is how the region is faring now (% fully vaccinated) 🇨🇱 86% 🇨🇺 84% 🇦🇷 78% 🇺🇾 76% 🇧🇷 74% 🇵🇦 72% 🇪🇨 72% 🇵🇪 68% 🇨🇷 68% 🇸🇻 64% 🇲🇽 57% 🇩🇴 55% 🇨🇴 54% 🇵🇾 43% 🇻🇪 42% 🇧🇴 39% Full list:
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1 - His win marks a big change for Colombia & gives him a mandate to try a very different economic model according to the ambitious agenda he set during the campaign
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Mexican peso gaining 0.6% in Asian trading ahead of presidential exit polls #Elecciones2018 #EleccionesMexico
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It's past 11 p.m., we only have 19% counted in Mexico & no signs of the rapid count from the electoral institute Regardless of the reasons, in most of Latam at this hour we would have known the results of an election..
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AMLO hosting his daily press briefing from inside an SUV after being blocked entry by protesters in Chiapas 😲
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At this pace, Brazil will take almost 4 years to cover 75% of its population with a two-dose vaccine 🇧🇷 Mexico & Argentina will take more than a decade 🇲🇽🇦🇷 Chile, a bit more than 2 years 🇨🇱 Check Bloomberg's new vaccine calculator here 👇
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Mexican peso resumes slump as AMLO ratifies he continues to favor the judicial reform to allow judges to be picked by popular vote..
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Libertadores, Taylor Swift, ahora el clásico sudamericano Rio de Janeiro tiene un problema serio para organizar eventos, comenzando por una policía completamente no calificada..
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Venezuela en una foto 🇻🇪
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The Venezuela-Colombia bridge has been blocked, preventing humanitarian aid from getting through
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AMLO has no room for finesse, legal technicalities or consensus-building. In his last five weeks, he's pressing ahead with a dramatic revamp of Mexico’s constitution to leave an indelible nationalist mark on politics & public life🧵 new @opinion column
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Whatsapp pays a full page on Mexican newspapers warning about fake news: "Share facts, not rumors". Good move but sounds a bit like trying to swim against a tsunami
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→ Bolsonaro names a general as new Petrobras CEO 🇧🇷 → Fernandez fires his health minister amid a vaccine scandal 🇦🇷 another Friday evening in Latin America..
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Mexican peso rallying & hitting the highest point of AMLO's presidency: 19.68/$ via @TheTerminal
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Unexpected twist in AMLO's fight against corruption: his own brother is now in the spotlight via @MddeH @lorena_becerra @bpolitics
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Amigo sonidista llega a CDMX con todo su equipo para vivir con la novia, funcionaria de la ONU. UN DÍA DESPUÉS les rompen la puerta y le roban el material de una vida. No seas así, México 😕
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ah mi Argentina, siempre a contramano.. 🇦🇷
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@econ_climb y si un día descubren los beneficios del crédito hipotecario, agarrate..
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When in Mérida...
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In one of his first comments as president-elect, Alberto Fernandez called for Lula to be freed. Things with Bolsonaro clearly won't go well..
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New year, new job: excited to report that I am starting as Latin America columnist for @opinion , giving the local view about our fascinating region to global readers You can subscribe to receive my columns here:
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Por hablar de Bloomberg Businessweek México con @warkentin @jrisco @E_Q_ ya ya en @asilascosasw !
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