The genesis of this series was that when the main stories of the week were such well-trodden fields as, say, AFA football corruption or Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s trials with nothing to add to what everybody else was writing, it made more sense to go looking elsewhere beyond the headlines for issues offering something new to say and perhaps even deserving more attention. Yet this week the Techint saga is such a novel battleground that there is no need to seek further.
How did an exclusively private tender become such a political football and why should there be much to choose between the tubing of an Argentine multinational flogging Brazilian steel and an Indian competitor hawking Chinese steel? And why all the fuss now since Welspun Corp Ltd was apparently awarded the contract just before Christmas?
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