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Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, 54, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, is all but certain to win Argentina's October 28 presidential election. If so, she will be the first woman ever elected to the Casa Rosada, the Pink House, the Buenos Aires presidential palace. (Isabel Peron, president from 1974 to 1976, succeeded to the office after her husband Juan died.) A veteran lawyer, legislator and stateswoman, as well as political fashion plate, Fernandez is often called The New Evita, after Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron. In a rare interview, she talked with TIME...
TIME: How are you like Eva Peron - and how do you think you represent Argentina's national character? FERNANDEZ: I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation...
...largely a product of President Kirchner's political project, which has produced strong economic growth without the unemployment and institutional ruptures we saw as a result of the neoliberal capitalist reforms of the 1990s, which brought on the crisis. For most of the 20th century, such ruptures in Argentina and Latin America were usually a result of military coups; but after the fall of the Berlin Wall they've often resulted from following the Washington Consensus [U.S.-backed capitalist reform policies...
...wasn't pursuing reelection - but no one believed him, perhaps because no one believed someone in his place would ever really means it. I think my husband wants to be an example in that sense. We'd also like to stop the cycle of traumatic government change in Argentina, where every election is a game of Russian roulette...
...known for anticorruption and human-rights crusades. Although she had greater name recognition with voters, the couple decided that Kirchner would run for President in 2003 because his greater familiarity with economic policy made him better suited to a country on the verge of bankruptcy. Smart call. Under Kirchner, Argentina has made a remarkable recovery, paying off its debt to the International Monetary Fund and posting four straight years of growth. The economy still needs care: inflation is rising, and the country still owes tens of billions of dollars to U.S. and European lenders. But now, the couple believe...