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...Fernandez de Kirchner. Elisa Carrio, presidential candidate of the Civic Coalition, who took 23% of the national vote to come in second, trounced Argentina's Senator and First Lady in the capital and other middle-class strongholds. That may explain the relatively low-key victory speech that the new Presidenta delivered at her campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires. The usually fiery "Cristina," as she is universally known in Argentina, said her huge popular victory - 44.9% of the vote in a field of 14 candidates - was "far from putting us in a position of privilege" and that it "puts us instead...
Schlesinger, the author of "Cycles of AmericanHistory," also discussed "the extreme brevity ofAmerican history," He recalled that as a youth hisfather told him of conversations with former Harvard PresidentA Lawrence Lowell, who admitted his embarassmentthat Lowell's father voted for Abraham Lincoln inthe 1860 Presidential election...
...ordained Isabella's succession last fall when he chose her to run for Vice President and together they received 62% of the vote. There were doubts even then about her ability to lead the troubled country if he died in office. Many macho Argentines rejected the idea of a Presidenta. There was also dissatisfaction with her dance-hall background and limited education. "Personally, I am ashamed," said one retired general...
...Party and no kin to Chile's Salvador Allende) would become interim President of the republic until new elections were held. In the first days following Perón's funeral, Isabelita showed no signs of wanting to exercise her constitutional option. The idea of being Latin America's first Presidenta was obviously a powerful pull. Still undecided, however, was whether she would be astute enough to withstand the divisive forces known as Peronism...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...