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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...
...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's history, turned over the reins of a burgeoning economy to the nation's First Lady. At that point, state coffers were bursting with foreign reserves, after a string of four uncharacteristically uneventful years - following...
...garnering a large degree of public support, fueled largely by frustration at the government's inability to deal with inflation. Says Ricardo Gomez, a farmer from the central province of Cordoba: "Cristina projected the promise that she could continue to provide the economic bonanza while distancing herself from Kirchner's authoritarian streak, but she turned out to be even tougher than her husband." Her government has called the farmers "oligarchs" who wish to throw her out of office...
...ditched her star economy minister, Martin Lousteau, a month ago after he put forward a 13-point plan to reduce public spending and discourage consumption to put a damper on prices. That plan ran counter to the combination of high growth rates and price caps favored by Fernandez and Kirchner...
...public disaffection to coalesce around farm owners, an anti-Cristina rally organized by the farmers a week ago in the city of Rosario drew between 200,000 and 300,000 people. That kind of turnout hit a sore spot with the presidential couple. Former President Kirchner tried to denigrate it by comparing it to the rallies against Juan Peron in 1945 - which, though large in number, failed to prevent Peron's rise to power along with his wife Eva, who is still widely revered in Argentina. The farmers scoffed Kirchner's belittling. "Make no mistake," said farm leader Carlos Llambias...