MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Cristina Fernandez defends the Kirchner legacy and warns her December successor
In her usual fiery style Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Sunday addressing Congress lashed out at the Judicial branch, questioned the political use of the AMIA bombing, for the first time openly referred to the Nisman case, and underlined that Argentina is no longer 'in the red'. She ended with a veiled warning to whoever succeeds her following on October's presidential election. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesShe so delusional it is a wonder she can walk.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 09:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess printing money to cover a budget deficit isn't “in the red” only in Argentina.
I didn't bother listening to her rattle on for hours.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0I did how ever have to go into 9 de Juio and Congresso afterwards last night,
Disgusting the amount of filth and trash strewn everywhere from her bused in and paid supporters.
I wondered why there were 1000's of watermelon casings everywhere, then it clicked. They fed her supporters watermelon as they are all toothless peasants.
Read McKinsey's report on YPF CEO's Miguel Galuccio.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Impressive.
“In 2011, YPF drilled 1 gas well; this year, we should end up drilling 150. We have 14 rigs working nonstop on gas. A few years ago, the company was probably making, on average, around $3.20 per million Btu.2 Today, on average, we do probably $5.50. But for new gas, we get $7.50,” Galuccio said.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/energy_resources_materials/leading_a_latin_american_shale_revolution
Three and a half HOURS !!! Seriously ????
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 03 Enrique
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0A lot of talk. Chevron was brought in to drill 161 'exploratory' wells. What about production?
Chevron appears to be an unhappy partner - policy changes they asked for have not been implemented.
http://interfaxenergy.com/gasdaily/article/14162/controversy-flares-over-chevrons-vaca-muerta-agreement
Don't you just wonder at the idiocy of this woman?
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is an old saying: if you suspect that people think you are an idiot do not open your mouth and confirm it so.
TMBOA has obviously never heard of that.
So in a way, is she saying that Argentina will collapse without her,
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0as she was the golden goddess behind the success and growth of Argentina,
And any future problems, that just might crop up after she goes, has nothing but nothing to do with her....lol
3. What's impressive about that report? You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You do realize that when YPF was in private hands they were limited by regulation on what they could charge the consumer now that the gov't owns them they've substantially raised the prices to fund development.
Its not rocket science QueQui.
1/2 truths are the same as lies.
WHO IS DISPOSED TO ROLL BACK?.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most members from the oppossition usually say that they represent the change that argentina needs, if they really think it, then i think we should ask them whether they think that all the achievements that workers could get in all these years should continue.
In some way, i think that we have already an answer, due to even a conservative like mauricio macri said a few weeks ago that he defends the concepts of peronism, like social justice, which is something that he has never mentioned before, it's a very relevant detaill, because if such a recalcitrant neoliberal like him had to say that, is because he and all the rest of the members from the opposition parties know perfectly that without cristina in office, or although her party loses the election in october, her legacy won't be able to be dismantled, i have said it in planty of opportunities, and now the leaders from the opposition recognize it publicly. Although they win, and take some decisions characteristic of economic liberalism, they won't be able to go back to the levels of high unemployment, like in the decade of the nineties, it's well known that economic power prefers a high unemployment, because businessmen want to pay misserable salaries.
On the other hand, i am really sorprised that mercopress didnt say a word about the fact the square of the congress, which is much bigger than plaza de mayo, was absolutly crowded by people who were supporting the legacy that c. f. k. represents.
Beside, i don't agree on the president when she says that she will leave an easy country for people. Although i defend her legacy, no country in the world is easy for citizens, due to they always have new demands, and it's something great, because it means they want to progress, beside, beyond the achivements that we got, we still have many hard problems, then, it's not an easy country for people.
“You will not have it easy, especially if you try to take back from the people the rights conquered during these years” she underscored.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is a warning that the Ks are willing to use the structure and power they have accumulated in the State to dynamite the next government. And that trying to take away the perks and handouts the State gives to the populace (that they call rights) they will mobilize. They have La Campora in the SIDE, they have the state companies, they have 56% of all the judges appointed during the K administration.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1772391-los-kirchner-nombraron-mas-de-500-jueces-el-56-del-total
Plus sacking public employees is going to be a hard task for the Unions will be up in arms as soon as 2016 kicks in plus demanding inflation adjustment, plus all the record debt 100% of REAL GDP after and official devaluation and INDEC audit
Its going to be really hard if not impossible for the next administration to govern
@2. Three and a half hours! Doesn't she have to pee?
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3. In the last year, using a powered auger, I've drilled about 80 holes in my gardens. That's two middle sized English gardens. I say they're gas wells. Shall I quote some figures on how much money I could make if there was any gas? And that's all your 'impressive' report does.
@4. I think I've sussed it. I'm sure you're acquainted with the phrase 'attention span'. Research suggests that the maximum adult attention span is aound 20 minutes. Wonder what people remember about the other 3 hours and 10 minutes? Think about films you've watched. The long ones have an intermission, don't they? Do they have special chairs? How long before you were thinking more about your behind than what the droner was saying? Can she still do damage while she's talking?
Debt's out of the red, is it? We all know about the 1.33 billion that argieland owes NML at al. Anybody got any figures for the 'me too' creditors? All that money borrowed from China. Isn't that a DEBT? Then, if she was to be honest, what about the difference between how much argieland borrowed and how much it agreed to repay. Is she differentiating between 'debt' and 'stolen'? Who compiles the 'debt' figures? INDEC or Kicilloff? And how much are the legal bills? It's quite amazing to find a country where the economy is failing, inflation is rising virtually on a daily basis and yet can reduce debt to negative values. But it's good to see that her government won't introduce a single measure that will hurt jobs or businesses. What does 40+% inflation do?
And we know that the AMIA matter is nearly solved. Nisman's dead, Iran and its proxies are off the hook, Kirchner took a shower. So much better than just washing hands. What a good idea to have a couple of documents, signed by Nisman himself, that disprove the charges he was making. How careless of him! Or are they forgeries? Whoops, did I say that out loud?
This just came up in the economist.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Case dismissed
Alberto Nisman’s allegations against Argentina’s president have been thrown out. The prosecutor’s death is as mysterious as ever
Mar 2nd 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21645523-alberto-nismans-allegations-against-argentinas-president-have-been-thrown-out-prosecutors-death
In her speech to Congress, she sought to shift the focus to more popular subjects. Argentina is the only country that has reduced its national debt, she claimed, inaccurately. She described bondholders who forced the country into default as “vultures” and “bloodsuckers”. Until she leaves office after elections in October, she will remain a polarising figure, both at home and abroad.
Read on…
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When I read CFK had talked for three hours and forty minutes I thought oops may be that was too much?
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Today I listened to parts of her discourse and I thought I would have liked to listen to all of that.
I do remember presidents reading speeches prepared in advance and you wanted to just go away and disappear.
This woman talks, improvises, and she makes sense. She is combative even now at the end of her mandate, and she keeps attacking new projects. And people really listen to her. Feel proud of this president.
QuiQue, I feel sorry for you. I can't believe someone in your advanced age is so gullible and naive.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK is nuts, she is on an obscene amount of lithium.
Clearly she is nuts
I weep for your children.
@13 And people really listen to her. Feel proud of this president.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0She makes me want to vomit!
Only ones attending are the choripanero's that are paid to be there. Not 1 full set of teeth between them. I am sick of seeing my tax wasted on these leeches who live off the government tit. (You included)
13 Enrique
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
This woman talks, improvises, and she makes sense. She is combative even now at the end of her mandate, and she keeps attacking new projects. And people really listen to her. Feel proud of this president.
I say:
This woman talks, improvises, and she makes stuff up. She is combative even now at the end of her marbles, and she keeps attacking new projects. And people rarely listen to her. Feel ashamed of this president.
Does anyone know if she mentioned all of the nails she's hammered into the coffin that is British rule in the South Atlantic?
Chuckle chuckle
She has failed.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 03:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Enrique if Argentina is so great.....why say so from Canada? I see it twice a year......and each time the decay increases. Why not return? Make Canada happy.....Calgary is it?
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is reported nowhere in the world media, it is obviously just a big yawn.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0She seems to change her appearance very slightly from time to time,
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think she is operating with a couple of duplicates,
or very good look a likes.
or bad a likes...lol
19. Both business insider and Bloomberg had articles today talking about how delusional cfk is.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So clearly I'm not the only one noticing.
I will say it usually takes the media a bit to start reporting what I've been saying
Some serious European/Uk papers have had a good laugh, mulling it over (on page 31...)
Mar 05th, 2015 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0FOAD, Mrs. President, stop embarrassing us.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yeah, Cristina is falling, she is bipolar, etc. etc.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Kirchners' mandates were such a failure--where are the proposals from politicians in the opposition to make it better? You know what? They got nothing!
Not only that. In the last few days, neoliberal conservative candidates such as Mauricio Macri and Sergio Massa are publicly promoting the continuation of many of the measures implemented by the Kirchners.
Massa, for instance, defended the role of the state in distributing income and said Aerolíneas Argentinas should continue to operate as a state company. He also defended the Kirchners' decision to take over the administration of pension and retirement plans (AFJP).
AND people did listen attentively to Cristina during the 3:40 hrs she spoke. I would defy many leaders around the world to achieve such feat. You got to listen and watch people's faces. Too bad for her opponents and haters. Cristina is beyond them by miles.
The hypocrite speaks 6000 miles away in the luxury of Canada. Go back home.......are you a pedophile there....a rapist.......there is a reason.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 025 Capt.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know it is frustrating, but I expect he in truth, a moral idealist.
Enrique, if I am correct, and he can tell me, left Argentina in the 70's, perhaps a political refugee.
From his writing, I expect he was a young man at the time, with Socialist ideals, that he brought to Canada.
The world has progressed, and he hasn't.
I'm sure he is being obstinate because he feels he is morally superior.
Meanwhile, he does not have to test his idealism by living everyday as an Argentine under that doctrine.
K Apologist.
Mar 06th, 2015 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Turns my stomach
I weep for his spawn.
I understand whatever he may be. However, my point is that if he believes Kirchner is so good for Argentina he should really be experiencing life under that regime.
Mar 07th, 2015 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Remember when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and they destroyed the historical artifacts with artillery......thousands of years old statues and carvings in the cliffs. recently ....ISIS was doing the same. Enrique......remember Christopher Columbus statue at La Casa Rosada? Ask someone in Buenos Aires what happened to it..........ask them if it is still shopped up in pieces still littered all over the presidential palace. The plans were to replace Columbus with a guerrilla fighter. Like all tyrants.....trying to change and re-write history.
What is relevant to my questioning of Enrique..........he blindly supports a philosophy that he has not had the opportunity to live under. In essence, he's a man talking through a paper asshole.
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