Cristina Fernandez flies Jan 10 to Havana in support of Chavez and Maduro
The Argentine government confirmed on Monday that President Cristina Fernandez would be flying on Thursday to Cuba to visit her Venezuelan peer Hugo Chavez, fighting for his life after a fourth cancer surgery with complications, and on the day which he should be taking office after October’s re-re-election.
Cristina Fernandez will be flying a day after receiving on Wednesday the Navy’s flagship ARA Libertad retained for 78 days in Ghana. The reception of the vessel at the port of Mar del Plata is scheduled to be a great ‘sovereignty’ ceremony with all her cabinet attending followed by an open music and dance party.
Cuba will thus become the first leg of the programmed trip originally only to the Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The true health condition of President Chavez and the political situation in Venezuela on January 10, the day the undisputed leader is supposed to take office has caused much concern in the rest of Latin America and there is a clear consensus to fully support Vice-president designate Nicolás Maduro if as anticipated the oath ceremony is suspended.
Last week Cristina Fernandez sent to Cuba a former advisor of President Nestor Kirchner, Ricardo Follonier, who has excellent contacts in Caracas to express Argentina’s full support for Chavez and Maduro.
“Argentina will stand next to Venezuela all the time. The stability of the Venezuelan government is crucial for the current South American popular and democratic integration process”, said Follonier.
The Argentine envoy will also travel to Caracas to confirm to Maduro Argentina’s support and ‘full alignment’ with the Bolivarian axis, if the worse is to happen with Chavez.
Follonier who also has good contacts with Unasur since the time Nestor Kirchner was secretary general has been instructed to help build a ‘strong contention net’ in support of Venezuela at the regional group.
Federal Planning minister Julio De Vido with a long working relation with the Chavez administration and with Maduro, is also expected to travel to Caracas.
Argentina is not only interested in the political alliance with the Bolivarian relation but also trade and financial support. Venezuela has become Argentina’s eighth trading partner with a huge surplus of 1.7 billion dollars in 2012. Venezuela also helped when Argentina was short of fuel, mainly heavy oil for power plants and in 2004 and 2005 purchased Argentine bonds thus contributing to cut the Kirchner administration links with the IMF.
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Well,
Let’s hope she doesn’t claim sovereignty over it then .lol.
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long live Chavez, Castro and CFK!
END MESSAGE!
It's sad because it's the kind of trick she'd try and pull.
What on earth will CFKC do if Chavez dies on Wednesday just before her big party?
'What on earth will CFKC do if Chavez dies on Wednesday just before her big party?'
Pretend?
World: I'll tell you what's wrong with him, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with him!
KFC: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
World: Look, matey, I know a dead leader when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
KFC: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable leader ,Chavez, idn'he, ay? Beautiful plumage!
World: The plumage don't enter into it. He's stone dead.
KFC: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!.......
“The two most adored presidents in Latin America.
long live Chavez, Castro and CFK!”
By my arithmetic that comes to THREE. Which one does not make it into the pantheon of “most adored” ?
@15 Try not to pay too much attention to #5, unless of course he wins a Darwin award.
!Trick or treat! scar you for life!
What a great start that would be for 2013.
#16 your opinion isn't worth much when everyone can count two presidents and one ex-president but I must admit you are all right, they are three of the best politicians in America.
#17 I didn't know there was a brit and a child in the meeting, did I miss something?
#21 your attitude here makes me wish every brit got poisoned and died, But we can all wish for what we want in life and in time do as we wish. A von fire at the british and US embassy in Argentina would be a greater start for 2013.
axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64333.shtml
Found out who your father is yet?
You need to know that to find out if you are an argie or just a bastard. Mind you TMBOA has plenty of cowardly bastards in her (laughingly called) government.
I suppose it is meant to be a bonfire, or on the other hand maybe an aristocratic German fire!!!!!
Love the second paragraph!
Don't think there is anything aristocratic about the wanabe Argentine living in Canada though.
#8 “@3 she's attacking her fellow peronist Scioli and An Argentine actor now....”
Very glad to hear it =) I always thought that Argentina's “full alignment with the Bolivarian axis” as assured in this article would trump the fact Scioli, a conservativ, belongs to the same catch all party as Cristina. I just can't see her endorsing or in any way smoothing the way for him to take over and realign Argentina presumably with the IMF and the US. Either Cristina will have a third term (my preference) or endorse a successor as Lula and now Chavez has done; barring a victory by the (weak, divided, and above all hated for being oligarchic) opposition the K-Chavista movement will go on =) (Who's the actor though and what's he done?)
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I told you about the pop star or 'actor' as he is now being called who questioned how was it that TMBOA has managed to amass all her money when they were broke and Nestor 'borrowed' USD 300 M from his region (interest free naturally) and the following investigation was dropped when he became President.
Who would have thought that?
TMBOA claims to be a lawyer but she never finished her degree and is not registered, so she lied about that as well.
Who would have thought that?
Everybody except the Peronistas and YOU.
It will be a come down - they will see her for what she is.
Do you actually have a vote in Argentina ?
I am confused with Argentine politics. If it is a democracy - it does not look like it. From here , it looks like a quasi dictatorship.
You seem to think that Argentina is the road to follow in political thinking. Whatever CFK does or suggests is pure brilliance and any criticism must be dismissed as not worthy of thought.
I presume your ideal would :-
1) To live in the paradise of Argentina or Venezuela or
2) Install the same political system in the UK.
Of the two options I would rather you took option 1
That's a relief. ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE OF THAT !
Well done!
That is the first time you have stated that and I frankly never thought I would ever see it.
#35 Why all the fuss, and btw if I was dodging anything I wasn't aware of it,the political system of Ven and Arg is multiparty democracy, with left labour governmnet, nothing to be afraid of here =)
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