How Argentina Banned Its Opposition

Imagine the person you had already decided to vote for in the next election — the leader your side trusts most, the one whose name you would put on a ballot without a second thought. Not a fringe figure. Not someone caught enriching himself or credibly accused of ordering a killing on a street corner. Imagine waking to the news that they will not be on that ballot at all, because a court has decided that the ordinary business of governing — a contract signed, a subsidy approved, a program…