Word: cristinas
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...been a bumpy ride so far for Argentina's new president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. And barely more than a week has passed since she was inaugurated. Hailed as Argentina's new Evita, Fernandez had been in office for three days when her first crisis broke. It originated in faraway Miami, where Assistant U.S. District Attorney Thomas Mulvihill said in court that the FBI had recorded alleged Venezuelan agents saying that $800,000 confiscated by Argentine customs authorities in Buenos Aires four months ago was actually an illegal campaign contribution from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Fernandez' electoral campaign...
...them run for re-election indefinitely. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega, hoping to relive the broad Marxist powers he enjoyed as President in the 1980s, is ruling virtually by decree. In Argentina, many suspect that the leftist husband-and-wife team of outgoing President Nestor Kirchner and President-elect Cristina Fernández de Kirchner intend to alternate in the Casa Rosada (the Pink House, or presidential palace) well into the next decade if not beyond. And in Colombia, supporters of conservative President and staunch U.S. ally Alvaro Uribe are clamoring to change their magna carta to give him a third...
Argentina has danced the most difficult tango. Kirchner--whose wife Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected to succeed him as President last month--took populist measures to keep the country of 40 million governable. He renationalized some utilities and set export limits on essential goods like meat to moderate prices. But rather than blow a windfall from commodity exports--prices for Argentine products like soybeans have hit all-time highs in recent years--Argentina replenished its foreign reserves (a record $44 billion today), pared debt and built a strong fiscal surplus. "Overspending and overindebtedness caused the crisis," says...
...Dynastic rule is, of course, not exclusive to Asia. In Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will succeed her husband Néstor as President. A recent study on the U.S. Congress discovered that congresspeople who stay in office for many years tend to have relatives serve in that chamber in the future. And with Hillary Clinton currently the frontrunner in the U.S. presidential race, America could face 28 years with either a Clinton or a Bush in the White House. In too many nations worldwide, politics is still, sadly, a family affair...
...imprisoned for murky deals with Saddam Hussein. Around the same time, audiences worldwide were introduced to a more extended family: one of popular, leftist leaders elected into office all around Latin America. Last Sunday, that family influence was maintained in Argentina for at least another four years, as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the wife of President Néstor C. Kirchner, was elected as her husband’s successor. Unfortunately, this regional political family provides only material for a tragedy in the real world, rather than a comedy on Fox. After the Bush administration disengaged almost completely...