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Time Magazine has Cristina Kirchner among the world’s top ten Female Leaders

A recent biography by an Argentine author is not so graceful about Cristina but all agree she’s impeccably dressed (changing three times a day)

Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been listed by Time magazine among the top ten Female Leaders of the world. Time says Mrs. Kirchner “has proven to be her own woman” having survived since elected in 2007 several serious standoffs.

“Elected President in November 2007 (thereby succeeding her husband Néstor), Fernández has proven she is her own woman. Dismissively referred to as “Cristina” by some members of Argentina's macho political elite, Fernández has survived a standoff with the country's powerful farming lobby, a fallout with the U.S. over a suitcase allegedly containing illegal campaign contributions and a series of high-profile economic-policy spats that culminated in the ousting of the governor of Argentina's Central Bank earlier this year. With her striking appearance and polarizing rhetoric, she inevitably draws comparisons with former First Lady Eva Perón”.

The list of Ten Top Female Leaders includes: Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia; Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland; Cristina Kirchner; Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania; Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany; Sheik Hasina Wajed, PM of Bangladesh; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia; Tarja Halonen, President of Finland; Kamia Persad-Bissessar, PM of Trinidad-Tobago and Laura Chinchilla, president of Costa Rica.