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Cristina Fernandez ends her visit to Vietnam, “an icon for her generation”

Monday, January 21st 2013 - 13:51 UTC
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Argentine president Cristina Fernandez ended on Sunday in Hanoi her visit to Vietnam the last leg of a week-long business and political trip that took her to the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and finally the land which she emphasized represented an icon for her generation. Read full article

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  • Shed-time

    This makes me want to cringe. I'm not sure whether it's just all the sycophancy.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    My god, what excruciating ass kissing, bet she still spiiting out his anal hair! 10/10 on the creepometer, story makes you cringe.

    As for him:
    “I bode you continue with your people’s conquests and the role Argentina will have in the region as in the world”.

    Talk about encouraging her dillusions of granduer. He should be up on mental cruelty charges.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    But that is the way they speak in that part of the world - don't read too much into it.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    EB
    You and I know that, the problem is, she does not! cruel of him to encourage her.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    “I bode you continue with your people’s conquests”.... if that's not irony, I don't know what is.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Optimus_Princeps

    @4 She is oblivious to cultural nuance. Sometimes I wonder if any of these foreign leaders laugh when she leaves the room. Her face in these shots is scarier than usual.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    After all that bollocks talking no mention on support for SS Kirchners colonial asperations over The Falkland Islands

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Usurping Pirate

    An interesting re-writing of history :
    According to the papers , but not mentioned here , she compared HoChiMinh to San Martin , implying that San Martin was a left wing revolutionary , which he patently wasn't .
    Furthermore , she never mentioned Peron or Evita , whom she is subtly trying to airbrush out of Argentine history .

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • surfer

    A moron for her generation
    A micron for her generation
    A con for her generation

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JohnN

    While Argentina has some problem with human rights, freedom and corruption, all of those indicators appear to be at least marginally better than those of Vietnam.

    However, on the Global Peace Index, Vietnam currently ranks lower (more peaceful) than Argentina, which might be attributable in part to CFK's strident anti-Falkland Islands position?

    HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIETNAM:
    http://www.hrw.org/asia/vietnam

    Freedom House - Viet Nam:
    http://www.hrw.org/asia/vietnam

    Corruption Perception Index 2012:
    http://www.hrw.org/asia/vietnam

    Global Peace Index:
    http://www.hrw.org/asia/vietnam

    .

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CJvR

    Vietnam also have Island problems, strange the traditional whining about the Falklands seems to have been excluded. Perhaps the Vietnamese demanded a supporting statement about the South China Sea to “support” KFC regarding the Falklands.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    I'm absolutely amazed. Perhaps even dumbfounded. Vietnam and arsieland must be two of the most advanced countries in the world. Read the relevant part of the article again. “as well as to celebrate the forty years of diplomatic relations between the two countries which started in 2013.” When did they jointly develop time travel?

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @12

    INDEC supplied the data!

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • scottbart

    what no mention of the falklands? she couldnt figure out a way to mention them no matter how off topic as the norm?
    I wonder if she has ever seen a crisp shaped like the islands or perhaps her tea leaves form the shape?

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    I bode you continue with your people’s conquests!!

    There, the cats out of the bag, Argentina c/o CFK on her future conquests,
    CFK just want her very own argentine Empire,
    Is this not true,..
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    She recalled that when the fall of Saigon in April 1975, “I was working and a fellow came in to tell us Saigon had fallen, which was so important for our generation”, she also admitted with a smile

    [Are we to suppose that if CFK could have, she would have, brought
    Argentina into the Vietnam war, against the Americans, or are we just suggesting wrongly lol.]
    ///////////////////////////////////
    And no mention of their support for the Falklands against the British pirates,
    Or was she quietly warned that to insult or infer against the islands, could we be misinterpreted by the Americans and the French, as an insult..

    Still
    No mention of the Falklands,
    Still,
    She was very happy playing [ GO APE] was she not .
    .

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Any truth that Kirchner was seen handing $$$$ bills to the British crew of the luxury British jet she used on HER HOLIDAYS muttering the words support me over Malvinas Support me and there's more of these$$$

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    15 Briton

    She wasn't paling Go Ape she was having her hiding hole tailor made to fit her. That's where she'll have to hide when it all finally implodes and the unions and her paid thugs all turn on her. A bit like where they found Saddam.

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    Is the top photo one of her visiting Nestor at the family graveyard?

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    A little of topic but perhaps our Argentine friends should take a look at the BBC News and at Prince Harry interview then ask yourself WHAT DOES MAXIMO DO FOR ARGENTINA

    Jan 21st, 2013 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    @19 Aww don't be so hard on Maximo. He took a tour of another of Argentina's magnificent navy vessels and... Oh um...

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/122296/malvinas-war-ship-sinking-at-navy-base

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    ' is currently leaning to port and under the risk of sinking.'

    risk of sinking? I think must of us would define that as 'sunk'

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 01:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Nostrolldamus the 8th

    @20

    Of course you forgot the minor detail that the ship had already been scrapped.

    With that completely incidental fact out of the way, you can continue with your lying and scurril.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @22 rollocks.... its laid up

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Nostrolldamus the 8th

    @23

    I'm just pointing that out, not expecting you as a Briton to actually acknowledge the truth. Truth doesn't exist in your country.

    That's how all the major European countries built their empires after all, lies after lies after lies. Disgusting folk.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    10 JohnN
    “While Argentina has some problem”...Canada send terrorists around the globe.

    “Two Canadians among terrorists in Algeria”

    “Canadian 'co-ordinated' terrorist attack says Algerian PM”

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @24 She was laid up in reserve with possible plans to make her into a museum ship.... she is one of the two largest units in the RG navy... built in the same yard as Liberturd... a masterpiece of RG workmanship etc etc...

    She has now sunk because the RG Navee can't even look after the ships they have in reserve.
    Back to your books boyo.... scrapped means turned into scrap metal.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JohnN

    Canada didn't send any terrorists anywhere, and so far, only unconfirmed reports of a couple of hostage-takers' bodies who may have had Canadian passports on them have been found.

    If confirmed to be legitimate Canadian citizens, we have way more terrorists in jail and going through the courts than just those two (apparently now dead). Example:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot

    Even before assisting France in Mali with its current Opération Serval, Canada has also been target of extremism, whether home-grown or imported:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot

    By the way, are Argentines who were responsible for or participated as support for the AMIA bombing in BA that killed 84 and injured hundreds on July 18, 1994 in jail yet?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot
    .

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Hmmmm
    updated Algeria says 2 Canadians among militants in hostage-taking

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    24 Tito The Clown Troll

    “Truth doesn't exist in your country.”

    Don't embarrass yourself any further.........seriously, don't.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Huntsman Extraordinaire

    Loving the holiday snap, looks like shes having a lovely time on our money - I say ours cos lets face it, Argentina hasn't REALLY got any money and you can bet your life she didn't use 'hers' (not even read the article yet - just seen the photo)

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    China is being taken to a UN tribunal over the border disputes in the south china seas. So, remind me why Argentina won't do the same regarding the Falklands...?

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #24 Nosferatu
    “That's how all the major European countries built their empires after all, lies after lies after lies. Disgusting folk”

    Yes, it is still carried on by their descendant colonists in Argentina even after we saw the error in our ways and freed our former colonies.!

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    I see Timerman got a public telling-off for giving CFKC false information for her speech in Vietnam- thus making her look stupid (again). I thought he was teflon Timerman.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    @33 was it more about her 'acclaimed law career'? What did 'the awkward american' do this time?

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • mastershakejb

    Its hilarious how the blue dollar market is “illegal”, but its done in every center of every town across Argentina in broad daylight in major city center buildings in front of everyone....so clearly those dollars are going to Cristina, along with any profits attained from them. I know this from personal experience cause I was there myself, and everywhere I walked someone was offering to trade my dollars for blue rate, and I'd walk into city center buildings right in front of police and all, and “illegally” trade my dollars.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @34 He gave her a fictitious account of the history between Argentina and Vietnam (you can make you own jokes here) and she spouted it in her speech as fact. (Too many jokes....)

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • slattzzz

    So nostril anus just let her sink and get nothing instead of scrap value worth millions makes sense eh dickhead

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Maximao has just been promoted to General Crap and placed in charge of the new Viet Campora!

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Musky

    CFK thanks the 'Viet Cong' for their support in the world Malvinas Cause. CFK's tour takes in North Korea, Iraq and Belarus.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    At last, I understand why she's that orange color, she's been Tangoed!

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    And the US still takes a neutral stance in the matter of the Falklands/Malvinas?

    Surely her remarks are a statement against the USA?

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    that would be up to the Americans to reply
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    17 Joe Bloggs
    [ I like it lol. ]

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Nostrolldamus the 8th

    Now we know why US universities are the best in the world... they make sure only the “best” make it out... literally!

    http://news.yahoo.com/texas-campus-issues-alert-amid-reports-shooter-190849999.html

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    we love CFK that's why she was elected and we will support a bid for her re-election. Let those who hate her form their own party and win the upcoming election, good luck and may the best woman win! Lol
    Outsider should bring their ideas to fruit in their own nations before dictating to CFK, Argentina is a democracy not an armed dictatorship supported by the west.
    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64333.shtml
    islas Malvinas Argentina is not negotiable.
    www.fihplc.com/index.php?section=0

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @44 Once again for the slow on the uptake - PH - this is a comment board and anyone is welcome to make their opinions known. They do not need your permission.

    You have no dog in the race either, you don't live in Argentina so whoever is in power has no bearing on you whatsoever but you comment here. See, anyone can comment, even you.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #44
    I will allow you this time to use Islas Malvinas instead of their correct title of the Falkland Islands.

    I agree wholeheartedly with what you say - the sovereignty of the Islands are non-negotiable.

    Jan 22nd, 2013 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • scottbart

    @Pirat-Hunter (44)
    The UK has been a democracy for hundreds of years and it is thanks to the UK that Argentina is now a democracy, and yes you are quite right the Falklands arent not negotiable and will remain with the UK, which is what the islanders will no doubt decide.

    What you need to start thinking about is the fact that even if the Islands were originally argentine it isnt the present days peoples fault because it would have been 180years ago!! There is no way in the modern world those peoples wishes can now be ignored, one of the best ways argentina could prove they have grown up as a nation is to leave those islanders alone in peace.

    Jan 23rd, 2013 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    No comment on her way out the door about Vietnam's support re the Falklands or her support over the Spratlys.

    Funny that... but then I see today that China has told Australia to keep her opinions to herself re the islands in dispute in east asia. I find these Chinese territorial claims far scarier than anything KFC can pull out of the hat..

    Jan 23rd, 2013 - 06:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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