Argentina Moves Highlight Increasingly Populist Energy Policies

摘要

Recent announcements by politicians at both the federal and provincial levels in Argentina highlight the fact that the country's energy policies are taking on an increasingly hard-nosed, populist slant. On Thursday Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced in a press conference that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration would take legal action against any company involved in oil and gas exploration in or near the UK-controlled Falkland Islands.