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Cristina Kirchner, puppet of her raging husband
Life in the pink palace of Argentina's ruling couple is no bed of roses, says a new biography of President Cristina Kirchner. It portrays her as the puppet of an authoritarian husband who once punched her in the face for defying his will. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd some “turnips” say that there is no freedom of press in Argentina!
Sep 07th, 2010 - 06:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Freedom of expression however, is not a license to slander. Many Argentines are only good at pointing fingers and dwelling on the past, and don't understand that a country as neglected as Argentina can't recover from one day to the next, we've come a long way and it will take even longer. And we need to be proud of our accomplishments as well.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Kirchners could've done better, yes, no argument. But lets compare them to Menem, him.. I swear to Christ, there is no limit to how cruel I would be to him, he DESTROYED Argentina to an extent few people realize.
There's always a flip-side to every coin.
When such a “ Book ” affects “British Interests” they call it “libel”, the newspapers don't report on it and they ban it................
Sep 07th, 2010 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Quote:
“Kelley's work has faced legal challenges. Her book “the Royals” was banned in Britain because it contained sensational assertions that Kelley would have reportedly been unable to defend in court, and the British media also found Kelley’s claims too potentially libelous to report on.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Kelley#British_Royal_family_and_the_Bush_family
Double standards anybody???
LOL think on damage limitation mode already
Sep 07th, 2010 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0So the Kirchners have made US$12 million? And they've been in power 7 years. I make that a little more than US$1.7 million a year. Still, being president or “parallel president” is a tough job. Wonder if the US$157,000 a year is included or on top?
Sep 07th, 2010 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Twinky should be right on top of this. He hates corruption.
12MM is what they couldn't hide. There is 300MM in missing interest payments from Santa Cruz oil revenue K deposited in Switzerland when he was governor. Plus the 15% commission they receive for all the trade between Argentina and Venezuela but that is in Miami so they don't have to declare it.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Cristina Kirchner, puppet of her raging husband”
Sep 07th, 2010 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0God bless the impartial media.
I remember when during NK presidency people like S.Walger used to say that NK was CFK's puppet and that she was in charge.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 02011 is round the corner and we must know that this is the begining, in Argentina people like Walger don't forgive CFK for being woman, peronist and a succesfull president.
Sounds like Laura Aria....I mean Chinchilla.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Told you many times, The clowns of the republic of che idiots will never learn it's lesson and always be stuck where they are...down down under with full of corrupted couples..LAUGH.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Regardless of whatever allegations about Ms. Kirchner are made in Walger's book, which apparently Mr. Matthew finds much to his liking, this particular note shouldn't be here in Mercopress and I find it to be a totally disgusting and dishonest kind of journalism that they'd post such an irrelevant, frivolous and completely worthless book review under a tittle calling the democratically elected president of Argentina, Ms. Kirchner, a puppet.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Such an unfortunate note, originated in the Sunday Times, belongs more in one of those silly brittish gossip tabloids read by lazy people than in a news agency that purports to offer credible and serious journalism.
This reports is part of that same smear campaign mentioned.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't fool yourself, CFK was about as “ democratically” elected as Chavez and Castro.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW what ever happened to the 800K cash “election” contribution from Uncle Hugo?
That Mercopress divulges such article is not surprising. In fact, it's coherent with the website's unstated purpose: to denigrate Argentina's political leadership and to inflame hostility from British nationals to that country.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 fredbdc - “Plus the 15% commission they receive for all the trade between Argentina and Venezuela but that is in Miami so they don't have to declare it.” - - - By Argentina law they do have to declare it, but I´ll bet that they have not. There is a “wealth tax” law which requires citizens to declare all assets, including money in foreign banks!
Sep 07th, 2010 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I dont deny that kirchner are corrupt and arrogant, but only a moron who has bad faith can say what this idiot, silvina walger wrotte in her book, she ony hates the kirchner and does not have not even one line of obejtivity, beside she contradicts her self, if we take into account that it sopose that nestor asked cristina to renounce after cobos decition in june of 2008, and she refused, what kind of puppet is cristina?, i hope that some one can answer this please.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the other hand, this old idiot lady (sivina walger), said a couple of monthes ego that the kirchner are worst than militar dictatorship, this shows the level of resentment and ignorance that there is in the mind of this imbecill lady, we all knoew perfectly that it's absolutly false, even those who reject strongly the kirchner.
12 JoseAngeldeMonterrey, you are absolutely right!
Sep 07th, 2010 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MercoPress journalism is like Clarin or La Nación here, or FOX in USA where only blind idiots could believe them like Nicholas.
Hurray for the Argentine louses. Looks like an appreciable percentage have crawled out of their slime.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Truth hurts, doesn't it? Not only your corrupt president(s) and government, but also your stupidity in supporting them. Please note that the Kirchners haven't denied anything said.
(12) Jose. How unfortunate, for you, that you didn't live ten, twenty, fifty thousand years ago when things were simpler. For now, for the 21st century, this is an important part of journalism. Digging up the dirt on corrupt politicians and telling the world about it. Just think. Without Matthew Campbell and the Sunday Times we might never have known about Sylvina Walger's book. And the same goes for MercoPress who have made it available to the world. Well done to all involved in bringing this to the attention of the world!
Having a good Editor-in-Chief will really help mercopress to filter this kind of tabloid garbage from reaching its audience.
Sep 07th, 2010 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also, comparing what the PRI did in Mexico for decades to what it's happening in Argentina with Clarin or La Nacion is absurd: the PRI was a one party regime with decades suppressing freedom of speech by violent means, the author of the FT article ignores how many newspaper printing shops were violently destroyed by the PRI thugs and how many journalists were incarcerated.
Televisions, radio stations and newspapers were either silenced forever or forced to side with the regime. The regime favoured those who obeyed with all kinds of juicy official propaganda contracts and fiscal “inventives” . In the end, those few who sided with the regime became rich media corporations, read monopolies, while those newspapers and radio stations who chose to speak out ended up mostly broken.
It wasn't fair either, and many in Mexico would like to see some justice brought into the matter too the way in the this is being done in Argentina: bring to justice those media tycoons who got rich and enjoyed the priviledges, favour and endless budget of the regime, they manipulated national information, twisted the news and conciously misrepresented facts to the people to help the regime stay in power, while the regime helped them become de facto monopolies.
So I have mixed feelings about what is happening in Argentina now, and though I do believe that what Ms. Kirchner is doing with La Nacion and El Clarin may come at a cost, I don't buy the perception that the Argentinian government is suppressing freedom of speech here either. My hope is that when it is all over, the media industry can be rid of corrupted media monopolies and that this will enable a new more diversely oriented and richer composition of this important industry that is supposed to convey public opinion.
HARRIER:
Sep 07th, 2010 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Moron, as suall you swallow everything you read in the international press, however at the same time you ignore many issues, like i said in my comment 17, i dont deny that the kirchner are corrupt and arrogant, but it does not mean that i am going to believe what any idiot says, who has bad baith, and does not have not even one line of objetivity.
Do you know who is silvina walger, do you you know what's her politic posture?, every posture are respectable, but you have to know where is standing the person who criticises a government, and you have to compare what she says, with the reality.
On the other hand, all the time the government rejects what diferent journalist say about it, regarding what silvina walger says, it's nothing new, she only hates the kirchner, and does not recognize not even one achievements to their administrations.
If cristina is bipolar, or whatever, is irrelevant, thats' her personal problem, it does mean that she can't make progress for the country, about their k's patrimony, they were supersed last year, in a cause for illicit enrrichment, i can't say if they are inocent or not, because i am not a public counter, but they are suspected of diferent corruption cases, this s why i wont vote them next year, so, what silvina walger says, is not new.
This crap belongs in the supermarket next to “Elvis still lives” and “Look at Britney Spears ass, it's huge!!”
Sep 08th, 2010 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great job MercoPress, top notch journalism
@21. I have told you before not to address me. You do not have sufficent intelligence to enter into a meaningful debate. You do not have an adequate capability in a proper language. And you are an ignorant, discourteous lout.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0who are the Argentine's going to belive a british pirats that are land thieves or a democratically elected Argentine president ?? the brits should stop stealing land and face the music, racism is no longer cool #23 go back to the closet and kiss your queens back end some more.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another ignorant, discourteous, stupid, war-mongering psychotic lout.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spanish, Italian and Portuguese immigrants should stop stealing land and walk home.
AVARGAS, dont waste your time with Mr HARRIER, he is the owner of the truth, and all of us are ignorant who are not at hes level, we will have to study during many years to discuss with him, we must accept it, like us or not, we are always wrong, and he is always right, in my case i make mistakes even when i type, this is why poor mr harrier can't understand what i say, forgive us mr harrier, i hope some day we can become into a great intellectual like you.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#25 is here because his royal queen won't let him have a say in his own nation, he thinks he has the rights to patronize us Argentines, but we are citizens of a democratic country and a british subject has no writen constitutional rights to even talk to us democratic citizens, we are sorry for all british subjects but don't come crying to us for your problems, say bye bye to Argentina and go to a UK reports to pest your kind or isn't your wisdom wanted by your race ?? I mean you troll around here as if this was the best place to be, just remember no matter what you say or do, you will always stay a white british pirat to us, you don't need to try soo hard to show it, #26 you can hardly call this subject Mr, unless followed by the word “homo” or “IDIOT”, as for intellectual, I hope it was ment as an ironic joke since there is no working brain cell in this britard subject.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0AVARGAS.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course that my comment was ironic, do you think that moron deserves to be called as an intellectuall?.
axel's got it right at last! “all of us are ignorant who are not at hes level, we will have to study during many years to discuss with him, we must accept it, like us or not, we are always wrong”
Sep 08th, 2010 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And gassy is, after all, just a dopy dago who can't stand to live in his own country but has to go and sponge off Canada.
Both useless sub-human “life-forms”. Somewhat on a par with pigs but not as useful.
HARRIER.
Sep 08th, 2010 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I dont know who you refer to when you mention about a dopy dago who can't stand to live in hes own country, in my case i live in my country, in buenos aires, on the other hand, if you stop being so moron, you could realise that my comment was absolutly ironic, since a couple of monthes ago, i can see that you just can make me laugh for a while, dont forget to take the red pilder, or you''ll keep on being the same histerical bitch as usuall, cheers my dear harrier.
Point 1 proven!
Sep 08th, 2010 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do we have to read such an idiot like harrier in a south-atlantic news site? Go to your country news sites to post all your dirty daily problems!!!
Sep 10th, 2010 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's called freedom of speech. One of those little idiosyncracies of free democratic societies. Perhaps gorge hasn't heard of it?
Sep 10th, 2010 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 032 jorge!
Sep 10th, 2010 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't have to read it. You don't have to post.
I don't know if you have noticed but our country has territory in the south atlantic :)
yes #34 your country has terrorits in south atlantic causing Argentina problems, this is why we need a nuclear weapons defence program to rid Argentina from a 150 years old illegal occupation of Islas Malvinas Argentina, pirats and “terrorits” as you call them don't have rights to anything, go home to britard land, and stop pesting people around the world, we rather feed roches then britards or pirats.
Sep 10th, 2010 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But the Falkland Islanders don't cause Argentina any problems. All they want is for you to stop trying to interfere in their development and stop trying to steal their country.
Sep 10th, 2010 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't need a nuclear weapons defence program. Britain didn't need a nuclear weapon to beat the shite out of you in 1982 and probably won't need one to do it again for the next 50-100 years.
The Falkland Islanders have every right to their country, their land, their territory.
If you don't like it, take it to the ICJ. Or is it that you remember you've already been offered that 3 times and refused? Is it that you know that if it went to the ICJ, Argentina would lose? Is that why you approach every forum EXCEPT the one that can make a definitive judgement?
In the meantime, feel free to carry on spewing out your bile, your bigotry, your hatred, if it makes you feel better. It's quite funny. We know Argentina can't DO anything.
Even its current attempts to interfere with the Falkland Islands development aren't achieving anything.
Round about now your supporter, Brazil, is conducting joint exercises with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
Islas Malvinas is not a country but an Argentine Island, british Illegal aliens in Malvinas have no vote or say in our country, what britards have to understand is that you can't turn Malvinas into Hong Kong nor can you use the fakland island holdings as britards used the British East India Company to trade opium, there is no opium in Malvinas, just oil that can easily go up in flames from one day to the next, didn't BP teach morons anything ? you people never change.
Sep 12th, 2010 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
I'm afraid it's you lot that don't change.
Sep 12th, 2010 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For possibly the first time in your short insignificant history someone told you that you couldn't have what you wanted.
Result? Kiddie tantrums together with childish lies.
Then you thought you'd tried the sneak approach and got spanked.
Result? You're now trying the “Look how big my gang is” approach.
Wrong people to try it on. Unless the FALKLAND ISLANDERS make a different choice, things will stay the same for the next thousand years or more.
And now we know your “government” is headed by a Punch & Judy show!
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