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...careers of Hillary Clinton and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner always seemed uncannily similar - and that's especially true at the moment. Last year both women were riding high; but as Clinton appears to be fading from the U.S. presidential race, Fernandez's presidency is doing its own plummeting. Indeed, poll numbers for "Cristina", as she is popularly known, are into George W. Bush territory barely six months into her administration...
Last October, Cristina Fernandez, the Peronist senator hailed both as Argentina's "New Evita" and "The Latin Hillary" won the elections with 45% of the vote, easily outpacing the other 13 candidates. But now, old ghosts from Argentina's troubled 1970s and '80s - inflation, class conflict and the threat of coups - have returned. City streets and national highways have become the stage for the kind of unrest that seemed unthinkable when Cristina succeeded to the office vacated by her husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, who instead of seeking a second term after one of the most succesful presidencies in Argentina...
...gigs since age 13, says Acoustic Tuesdays have a “relaxed, kind of college-feel, [something] that sometimes is lacking at Harvard.” Though Acoustic Tuesdays are also jazzed up by performers such as Jake M. McNulty ’11 and Juan Carlos Valdes Fernandez ’11, Miller and Campbell are the cornerstones of the weekly event. Miller discovered early in his college career that the Harvard atmosphere was not a music-friendly one, and without enough events like Acoustic Tuesdays, pursuing his passion would be harder than imagined. “It?...
...past 61 years, the longest period of any party currently in power anywhere in the world. A win by Ovelar, who is polling up to 34%, would follow a regional trend set by the 2006 election of Chile's first female President, Michelle Bachelet, and that of President Cristina Fernandez last year in Argentina...
...government of President Cristina Fernandez blamed farmers for the increasingly unbreathable air. It continues to be on the political offensive against the private agricultural sector following a major farm strike against export taxes earlier this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this...