![]() With Macri on vacation in La Angostura outside Bariloche, the next week is even quieter. A Swedish tourist loses a leg after being shot in a San Telmo mugging. Outgoing three-term Salta Peronist Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey tosses his hat into the presidential ring. Ex-president Fernando de la Rúa falls gravely ill but manages to survive into 2019, unlike former Foreign minister Héctor Timerman, who succumbs to cancer in the closing days of 2018. Macri finds the middle ground too important in an election year to risk being linked to such a figure and skips the inauguration in Argentina’s most important neighbour – a short-sighted snub?īack home, economic experts cautiously forecast modest growth for the infant year, even if the first INDEC statistics of 2019 report a continuing industrial slump. Nothing in the first week of 2019 in Argentina carries the potential significance of New Year in Brazil with the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro, although neither the best nor the worst of the far-right leader’s message are translated into reality – no economic take-off from the confidence shock of his pro-market policies (any more than with Mauricio Macri) which might help Argentina out of recession, but no real institutional damage from his authoritarian impulses either.
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