Life in the pink palace of Argentina's ruling couple is no bed of roses, says a new biography of President Cristina Kirchner. It portrays her as the puppet of an authoritarian husband who once punched her in the face for defying his will. Read full article
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And some “turnips” say that there is no freedom of press in Argentina!
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Freedom of expression however, is not a license to slander. Many Argentines are only good at pointing fingers and dwelling on the past, and don't understand that a country as neglected as Argentina can't recover from one day to the next, we've come a long way and it will take even longer. And we need to be proud of our accomplishments as well.
The Kirchners could've done
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BUENOS AIRES, ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — There is a before and after to Cristina Fernandez, the combative Argentine leader likely to win a landslide re-election victory on Sunday.
Following her husband Nestor Kirchner’s successful turn as president, Fernandez was vexed by one crisis after another. Powerful agricultural interests lined up against her tax increases. Financial analysts predicted imminent economic collapse. Most people polled disapproved of her leadership, and secret U.S. Embassy cables repeated speculation that she might not even finish her term.
Then Kirchner, her nearly lifelong collaborator, died of a heart attack last Oct. 27.
An outpouring of sympathy turned his funeral into a national catharsis, and Fernandez changed her tone.
She left behind the “all or nothing” rhetoric she and her husband had wielded against their enemies and presented herself as a president for all Argentines.
Before, she would confront riv
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6. Argentina’s Corruption Machine: Toward an Institutional Approach
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Abstract
Argentina’s structural corruption has been historically addressed through futile debates between public-private biases and a cultural-criminal approach reinforced by modernization theory. This chapter describes the extent of the problem and the ineffectiveness of predominant approaches to reduce it. It then lays out an alternative, institutional approach and shows how it could be employed in beställning to address Argentina’s corruption and its particular reverse developmental myt. A first glance at the sort of historical quest that the institutional approach demands reveals that, from its inception, Argentina has been steadily building a corruption machine whereby power shifted fr