Néstor Kirchner

Former President Makes a Comeback in Argentina

New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

The turnaround of Néstor Kirchner, whose wife is president now, gives the leading couple a chance to extend its political dynasty.

Israel issues habeus corpses (sic) against its fascist allies

Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

Tony Greenstein has spotted that the zionists' hypocrisy over the real antisemitism that it has always colluded with, isn't confined to its bogus memorialising of the holocaust. It has now been extended to the Jewish victims of Israel's friends in the old Argentinian Galtieri regime. Tony's post is headed Argentina – Proof that Israel is no Refuge from Anti-Semitism : Post 1945 there was one...

• Greenstein on Argentina, Israel and anti-Semitism - Developing your Web presence

The Argentinian love affair with psychoanalysis

Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

The Wall Street Journal has a revealing article on why Argentina has the largest concentration of psychologists anywhere in the world and why it has a long-standing cultural fascination with psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological theories and form of psychotherapy based strongly on the ideas of Freud. Buenos Aires is one of the world centres of psychoanalysis and has been since the...

Argentina's ex-President Reynaldo Bignone is on trial for torture and mass murder

newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

The trial of former President of Argentina Reynaldo Bignone has begun in Argentina, according to the BBC . Also on trial are five of his former army officers, including intelligence chief General Santiago Omar Riveros, and a Buenos Aires police commissione. The seven are accused of the kidnapping,torture and murder of 56 people, committed in the Campo de Mayo dentention centre between 1976 and 1978,...

The Argentines And You II

We The Free (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

clipped from online.wsj.com The story of how Argentina got here is important to recall. The economy was flat on its back after the 2001-2002 collapse of "convertibility," the monetary arrangement that pegged the peso to the dollar. A demoralized nation was looking for a savior It thought it found one in Néstor Kirchner. He became president in 2003 and set about to restore the state-run...

• The Argentina example: are we heading there? - Chas' Compilation

Coming Soon To A Country You Live In

We The Free (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009

clipped from www.bloomberg.com Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s Senate approved a government-backed bill that puts new limits on television and radio ownership and will probably force Grupo Clarin SA, the country’s biggest media company, to sell off assets. The Senate handed President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a victory, passing 44-24 a law she said will “democratize”...

• March against Free Press continues across the world. - Jumping in Pools

Argentina's first dude

FP Passport (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009

Later today, the spouses of the G-20 leaders will be heading next door to Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts high school to meet students and hear a performance by famed cellist Yo-yo Ma and country star Trisha Yearwood. But former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, whose wife is now running the show in Buenos Aires, won't be among them -- he didn't make it to Pittsburgh (guess that means...

G-20 Fashion Flashback: What The Wives Wore Last Time (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

The last time the G-20 Wives gathered was in London in April. The next time will be this Thursday in Pittsburgh, where the first ladies are sure to enjoy each other's fashion. From the April 3rd entry: On Wednesday night Prime Minister Gordon Brown hosted a working dinner for G-20 leaders at 10 Downing Street. The delegates dined on baked Scottish salmon, Welsh lamb, and something called lovage (see...

Argentina's president takes on media giant

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009

BUENOS AIRES | An epic battle between Argentina's two reigning powers -- the presidency and media giant Grupo Clarin -- started with a political cartoon, the way one editor tells it. When President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was drawn with an X taped over her mouth, she called it a "mafia-like" threat and accused "media generals" of using their newspapers and TV stations to...

Football and politics in Argentina: Hand of gold

The Economist (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009

Another government bail-out BETWEEN them, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez, and her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, have nationalised their country’s post office, its airline and the private pension system. Now, it seems, it is the turn of football to come under the state’s aegis. This week the Argentine Football Association was poised to accept an offer of $154m...

Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soars

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009

Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone.

Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soars

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009

Now even the Pope says Argentina's sharp rise in poverty is a "scandal," and the government has been forced to agree, with former president Nestor Kirchner offering new poverty numbers that would represent a 50 percent rise this year alone.

• Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soars - Miami Herald
• Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soars - San Diego Union
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Argentina's first couple deliver prosperity – for...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009

Argentina's first couple deliver prosperity – for themselvesRory Carroll, Latin America correspondentguardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 July 2009 20.45 BSTArticle historyArgentina's President Cristina Fernandez and her husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, December 10, 2007. Photograph: Argentine Presidency/Handout/ReutersThey were elected on the promise of delivering prosperity to...

A vote for change in Argentina

GatewaytoSouthAmerica.com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009

Jun 30th 2009 From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire Argentina’s president is dealt a blow in congressional elections President Cristina Fernández’s Peronist ruling party suffered a major defeat, losing its legislative majority, in the nationwide June 28th congressional elections. Argentineans have clearly voted against Ms Fernández and her husband, Nestór Kirchner,...

A conspiracy of silence Eamonn MacDonagh reminds...

The Contentious Centrist (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009

A conspiracy of silence Eamonn MacDonagh reminds us that justice has yet to be done, fifteen years after a truck bomb destroyed the headquarters of the AMIA Jewish community organization in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed and hundreds injured: 2. Carlos Menem’s government saw to it that the initial investigation was carried out with the intention of protecting the authors of the...