Barrage of criticisms on Cristina Fernandez; unions planning national strike
Argentine opposition leaders renewed their criticism of President Cristina Fernández accusing her of being autistic, unlimitedly authoritarian and of disregarding the people after the giant anti-government pot-banging protest, 8N, on Thursday, while the administration vowed to steer the course and not to fall into “rightwing” provocation.
Teamster Hugo Moyano, the head of the opposition faction of the CGT, said the President “lives in a kind of bubble that doesn’t allow her to see reality. The men who should advise her don’t make her see reality. Things are not the way they say they are, or the way they make her believe they are.
“We are protesting against the government’s despiteful way to address demands,” Moyano, a former ally of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández, said in remarks to a local Buenos Aires radio.
Moyano confirmed that on Tuesday he and other union sectors would decide to call a national strike for November 20 “so that the government listens to workers’ demands”.
The strike is being coordinated with Pablo Micheli, the head of the opposition faction of the smaller CTA.
Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri and head of the opposition PRO referred to the speech after the 8N pot-banging protest, and released a photograph of the demonstration.
“So the most important thing last Thursday was the Communist Party Summit in China?” Macri stated ironically.
The city mayor published in his Facebook account a photograph of the protest, accompanied by this ironic phrase about the speech of the Head of State. Macri stated this after Cristina Fernández criticized the demonstrators, who she accused - without mentioning them - of “having a distorted vision of the country.”
”(On Thursday) a big thing happened: A new president was elected in China” said the president after the massive protest.
Cristina Fernández was first elected President in 2007 and last year was re-elected with 54% percent of the votes. Many demonstrators protested against alleged plans to reform the Constitution to allow the president to be re-elected again in 2015.
Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, the chairman of the Radical National Convention, the main opposition party’s leading ruling body, said: “The authoritarianism of the President has no limits. The government’s official policy is to believe that they are the nation and that the rest of the people do no exist.” He also said that the government “lies” when it says that the Radical party lacks proposals.
The government meanwhile, said that it will not bow to “rightwing pressures.” Gustavo López, the Presidency’s deputy secretary general, said: “We don’t have to fall into provocation. We must be smart. The only thing we cannot do is to bow to right-wing pressures”.
Cristina Fernandez also accused the opposition of not having the necessary political leadership to present and support an alternative model to the one she and her deceased husband, Nestor Kirchner, have been implementing since 2003.
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Suppose they manage to do just that. Then what?
Utter fools...
read this piece, stranger, and see the foreigners rejoice and try to foment,
further division among the people whom they reject, and in hatred's ascent,
they forget, their place and at hatred's behest, they descend into utter torment.
Will the people settle for another Peronist, or turn into an ugly mob??
Any opposition candidate has to be better than CFK.
Nothing will get any better until a person of integrity steps up to work for the benefit of the people and the country.
Macri would seem to have a better chance than the “Bubble-girl”!
he found himself outmatched by a solitary Queen Bee,
But Calmeran had comrades Jollande, Merkelen and Montis,
but even united they succumbed through the sting of a greedy banking fee.
Clarin's dirty fingers are everywhere.
Like ghostbuster says
“I can see you!”
:)))
LOL.......... be care madam President..... the Wolves are closing for the kill.
Nov 20th, will this be the showdown???
Any future leader will continue to push the Malvinas issue. More than likely we will see a right wing conservative in the Presidency and then things will really get interesting.
Macri has no chances outside of BA city. Scioli is the next President in 3 years time. A Peronist with conservative origins.
I love how Guzzola is blaming Clarin, so the rampant inflation, unemployment and utter failure of the economy is nothing more than a sham put out there by Clarin?
But surely you, a socialist, stands firm with the workers!
No? Oh why am I not surprised. You're not even a real socialist, but a La Campora troll.
You talk about wealth. What about CFKs wealth, which has increased enormously since taking office. Not very socialist of her is it? Oh but then she isn't a socialist in the true sense but a National Socialist (Nazi) isn't she?
Yet again, a supposed socialist yourself supporting fascists.
AS for CFK, she'd better have her helicoptor warmed up, because the people - the workers will be coming for her.
Workers of the world UNITE, you have nothing to lose but your chains!
And uniting the workers are, against CFKs corrupt and inept joke of a government. :)
If she wasn't so delusional, she would be “in recovery” in some nice country without an extradition treaty with Argentina.
I hear the unions want an extra extra payment in December? Do you think they'll take Patacones? I also hear CFK has shut off funds to Provinces for all of their planned construction projects, roads etc.
Rut Ro,
Brazil came out of a diasaster in less than 10 years
Colombia has overtaken Argentina in 5 years time
Chile has always surpassed Argentina
Perhaps when Suriname and Guyana overtake Argentina, they will see the picture.
@5 So much concern for argieland from a “Uruguayan” in Europe.
@9 Guzzle. The Big Lie in person!
@13 What's your name? Maximo? Not all “contacts” are public. Who knows what a potential future “leader” might have been told? You know what they say about eggs and baskets.
@19 Can't argue with your thoughts. But, please. That spelling!
It must be equally frightening that the unions are now part of
“the oligarchy”.
the foreign fiend-hordes will conclude that the time is rife,
to unleash the butcher's sword and to sink it sly as if from man to wife,
behind you cowardly unnanounced, the outsider on your back leaves his knife.
I like the new poetic Toby.
Your talent is wasted here.
PS
three fingers on the right hand were shot off, so I feel I type just fine.
she is so beautiful
VIVA CFK, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, WE LOVE YOU..
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Been a while piss boi, been working a new ID in the past two weeks.......or hiding out from the immigration federalis?
No electricity, subway strokes, garbage piling up in the streets, cuntina kirchner refuses to allow Buenos AIres to borrow money to avert flooding.....all in order to make the opposition to her look bad, she makes the people suffer.........such a great leader......just like hitler.
Hitler got stuff done. I think Kim Yong Il is a better comparison.
@28 Whiney coward. Return to your cesspit. Join your “forces”. Be a real “martyr”. Die. Of course not. Coward!
Are you actually saying anything relevant or just trying (hard) to distract?
Her people love her , adore her, would jump into burning furnaces for her.
Then again , the indoctrinated no nothing else.
Poor sods…
pirate finder, you are canadian now, go home.
”Are Americans so browbeaten that they cannot tell one man (your President) that he's got it wrong?“
Have you ever been in ANY town common in the USA to see protesters on any given day? If it does not make the BBC, does it not happen?
”Britain was fighting not only you Americans, but also the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, all around the world.“
Perhaps british bluebloods, not commoners, pushed their empire too thin to be fighting the world.
”Nice of you to take part from 1942. Just halfway through. We can appreciate what you have done.”
You think Europe was an American war? Hitler didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. In a shorter period of time, we lost more men in the African and European Theater.
You need to get of you high british ass and take your fucking attitude to someone who fucking cares. I can recall my father always bitching an=bout the Brits Army stopping for the tea. As I told the other British idiot, you have a problem North American, fine.........pay off the now 225 billion still owed from WWI and we'll leave you Brits and the EU alone. Oh....and yes the war of 1812 was a draw.......but for a 20 year old nation of nothing more than farmers.......yea......you should be proud of a draw from the world largest and strongest army of the time. Torries.....let's call them sallies
I think you're an old man fool that lives in the glory days when Britain was great........before we took out the trash 225 years ago. As I say to argentina.....pay us back your debt deadbeat.
www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/11/bachmann-pac-mail-for-hawaii-candidate-talks-up-americans-148195.html
Good job!!
The only idiot on here is you.
.
How does it feel being like an RG deadbeat? Was it a convenient memory lapse?.....WWI loan that is? We still carry it on our book....dfoes Britain?
and your anti british views.
you told this , you told that.
perhaps one should remember that one is no better or worse.
and we still think obama should should support british intrest in the falklands,
in lew of supoprt rendered.
as for the loan.
think on this.
1, the loan is and has been repaid.
2, the Americans whiped of the war debts of the french germans italy and other european countries that sought american help.
rather unfair was it not.
but to be fair, loan paid , so cant throw that one back.
Sure they wiped them out. WWII was paid off a few years ago from the 60 year loan.....not WWI
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4757181.stm
I must admit I am also a bit worried by the prospect of Boudou as President by default, he spent most of his life as a banker and conservative before either having a Pauline conversion to, or jumping on the bandwagon of, the K left, was a good economy minister for a brief period but has been a dissapointment as VP, far less visible at least as far as I can see than many other impressive ministers and mired in scandal (though if he is being witch-hunted, he should be defended of course). If, say, Timmerman could be made VP if Boudou resigned to concentrate on clearing his name, I'd be less worried about a succession, though to me Cristina remains a unique and outstanding leader both in Argentina and the world
But most worrying of all is your idea that someone like Scioli could take over. It seems to me thats not what Cristina herself wants from her criticisms of his management, and rightfully so. As you say, he's a conservative Peronist, and Menem, Isabel, even Peron himself in his right wing mode, are hardly encouraging role models, in fact quite unsavoury. I don't think after all its been through, from death squads to economic collapse, Argentina would want to go back to the right having lived under the people focused, democratic alternative. As you know I want a constitutional change, but if Cristinita can't stay, then surely another leftist will win? The combined left vote last year was 71% after all
i dont run americanbs down, just obama for not supporting the uk over the falklands,
no more no less.
we piss in the toilet not the wing,
besides some think you and conquer are one of the same man,
i do not you are two different men,
see no anti..lol
“A titular head of state for a lengthy sabbatical”-you want Argentina to have a queen.
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