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...party system broke down following the downfall of the disastrous Radical administration of President Fernando de la Rua in 2001. Economic collapse and social unrest led Argentina to default on $141 billion in foreign debt. Since then, the rambunctious Peronists have dominated Argentina's political scene, first under Nestor Kirchner, who oversaw the country's return to decent economic health, and then under his wife Fernandez, who was labeled Argentina's new Evita when she won the presidency herself. (See the top 10 feuds...
...shows that the media doesn't really know how to handle gay politicians." Perhaps. But only in Iceland could overlooking the Prime Minister's sexual orientation be taken as a slight. In many other parts of the world, that would count as a victory. - With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin and Gaëlle Faure and Tara Kelly / London
...giant is prepared to play hardball too, reminding German workers that the insolvency of its entire European operation is still an option. "Failure to reach the restructuring that is needed would result in the operation becoming insolvent - that would be an unnecessary and undesirable outcome for everyone," says Karin Kirchner, a spokeswoman for GM in Zurich. (Read " 'Much Work' Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...
...rejects the kind of criminalization of libel and other media misbehavior that is built into Venezuela's law. But opponents call her law a desperate gambit to recoup her waning clout and win re-election in 2011 for herself or her husband and predecessor, former President Néstor Kirchner. Adrián Ventura, a columnist for the Buenos Aires daily La Nación, wrote last week that Fernandez "has started to unveil a true systematic policy of violation of freedom of expression. We are on the same road" as Venezuela...