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There was more bad news for the embattled government of Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Monday, when a Miami court convicted a Venezuelan secret agent of attempting to cover up an alleged illegal donation to her 2007 election campaign by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. Justice Minister Anibal Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely...
...setback in Miami comes barely a year since Cristina Fernández triumphantly walked away with the presidential elections, taking 45% of the vote against an opposition whose energies were divided among 13 candidates. The press at home and abroad hailed her as Argentina's "New Evita" and its "Hillary", and voters believed that Fernández would distinguish herself from the previous administration by repairing the country's relations with the U.S., bruised by close ties with Chávez. She was also expected to improve relations with her domestic opposition...
...negative legacy that she was looking to repair, of course, was that of her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, who had chivalrously stepped aside for his wife to stand for office. Still, Fernández was known for her independent streak and as a political heavyweight in her own right, with a record as a combative senator that convinced many she would not be manipulated by her husband...
...Many politicians, both pro and anti-Kirchner, concur with that assessment. "He is the one definitely calling the shots," says Maria Eugenia Estenssoro of the centrist Civic Coalition Party, which came in second in last year's elections. "It is a big disappointment," says another legislator from Fernández's camp, who requested anonymity. "Kirchner is now in charge again...
...Kirchner is referred to ironically as "the former President in office" by Joaquin Morales Sola, the leading columnist in the conservative daily La Nacion, who has stated that Cristina Fernández "is the democratic President with the quickest loss ever in popular support...