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Cristina Fernandez cancels trip to neighbouring Paraguay on medical advice
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner following medical advice was absent on Saturday from Paraguay’ official celebrations for the Bicentenary of the country’s independence. She was represented by Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesShe is right about that, re-election is not worth dying for. And it is not worth sacrificing one's health.
May 15th, 2011 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0should you run instead E ? Just give me your platform, what would you do for us Elaine?? and please don't flip flop on Malvinas ...... lol!!
May 15th, 2011 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol! I'll pass on running for election, thanks. Do you still have to be Catholic to be President in Argentina, or did I dream that?
May 15th, 2011 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What would you like to see change in Argentina? (I am assuming you think it needs to change).
It is well known that CFK is bi-polar. She suffers extreme shifts from being in euphoria to being in deep depression. With all the pressures in Argentina today, I imagine that she is in one of her depressions.
May 15th, 2011 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[] 3 -- I am atheist !
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[] 4 -- You still fear ?
@ 3 that was the deal back then , now I don't know. In regards to change the country, why do you think I live in Texas?? lol!!
May 15th, 2011 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you decide to run , I have to be your Defense Minister, there are some unfinished business that I would like to take care of.... :-)))
@5 Geo , when you say that you are an atheist, is a contradiction on its own, for example, I don't believe in that red rose, indirectly you are impliying that exists .... JMO
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May 15th, 2011 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We are majority,
the World ' s 63,7 % is atheist !
Geo, whatever makes you happy .....
May 15th, 2011 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On a different note I just red this from La Nacion...
Jóvenes K utilizan la oficina antilavado contra adversarios ...Las órdenes son explícitas, directas. “Hay que hacer mierda a tal empresario.” O también la opuesta: “Con tal otro no jodamos”. Esas frases se tornaron recurrentes durante los últimos meses, en los que la Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF) se convirtió en una creciente herramienta política, con un peso notable de jóvenes militantes de Libres del Sur, La Cámpora y otras agrupaciones, indicaron cinco fuentes que trabajaron o aún trabajan dentro de la unidad antilavado local a La Nacion.....
so my question is the following, if the zurdos were complaining about the SIDE back in the days, these people are doing the same or is just my imagination?????
Geo - Is this some of the information you were looking for? - - Kirchner government supporters who were Montoneros:
May 15th, 2011 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Montonero members, but not active militants; spent their time making money in Santa Cruz, both before and after the military takeover
Nilda Garré - Active Montonero militant
Jorge Taiana - Active Montonero militant
Carlos Kunkel - Active Montonero militant; now a K-supporter congressman
Daniel Filmus - Montonero?? youth communist; now a K-supporter congressman
Jerry ...nice people !!
May 15th, 2011 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt the paranoid abc.py will present this as some anti-Paraguay plot, just like they did after Dilma Rousseff also canceled her appearance.
May 15th, 2011 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyone in their right mind with her health problems would retire.
May 15th, 2011 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she has to make enough money to retire for life, plus the kids plus her grandkids so probably she needs 4 more years according to my calculations .. ;-)))
May 15th, 2011 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe Nestor didn't tell her where he had hidden all the cash... maybe she has had to start again....
May 15th, 2011 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She already has much more than needed to retire; in the millions. That does not include the 500 million dollars he deposited in Swiss bank accounts over 20 years ago (what is the amount today, with interest?). I understand that only he and his driver had signature authority over the 500 mil; since his untimely death, who knows how that stands now. Also, in case you did not know, his driver is now one of the richest persons in Argentina - a successful “businessman”, of course.
May 15th, 2011 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0who in the hell wants to be a President with all that cash? I wouldn't
May 15th, 2011 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think greed must be like alcoholism.... once they start they just can't stop... and enough is never enough....
May 16th, 2011 - 01:17 am - Link - Report abuse 016 Artillero601, Bush and Cheney.
May 16th, 2011 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see the American @17 has a grudge against Cristina because of the $7500 fine he had to pay.
Do you need a receipt?
Is not tax deductible in US though.
@18 Cheney definitely, Bush not as much
May 16th, 2011 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0@19
May 16th, 2011 - 02:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0“George W. Bush has a net worth of around $9 million to $26 million”
Pobre tipo.
I think greed must be like alcoholism.... once they start they just can't stop... and enough is never enough....
May 16th, 2011 - 05:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0My name is Cristina, and I am a greedy bastard :-))
@18... you been drinking the Thinko koolaid again?
May 16th, 2011 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Last time I was asked by an RG government official if I needed a receipt ( it was about 4 years ago and IIRC the sum involved was about $10 US give or take ) I said 'no' and he -without blinking- put the cash straight into his skyrocket...
Poor sad young Marco... you country is corrupt from the very very top to the very very bottom...
No wonder that back in the 60's all the nurses in the British Hospital in BA were so keen to find a British husband.... even back then they knew the country was a basket case ... and rotten to the core...
[] 9 -- jerry
May 16th, 2011 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0but .. the sympathizer and militant are different things !
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[] Artio...Marco ...Jerry...Stick...
this is not despoilment this is just -tax exempt commision-
to drive the state...not easy to become admin .... just system vulnerability !
@20 Cheney made 3 times more in one year due to his stock in Haliburton.... do you get it Haliburton? Iraq - troops ? No bid process? Cheney ex VP of Haliburton.... do I have to say more?
May 16th, 2011 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wasn't that the American Company who got all the main contracts in Iraq after the illegal invasion? No wonder they went to Iraq. He was in charge not Bush.
May 16th, 2011 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's correct!
May 16th, 2011 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, to be accurate, Cheney resigned his position with Haliburton whilst he was in office, but pretty much everyone thinks that was a charade.
May 16th, 2011 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He also had it written into the contracts that he and Haliburton could not be held accountable for any mis-management of funds or investigated. I believe laws were changed...... but please correct me if I am wrong.
More generally, we touched on the subject of why rich people want the be in office in another thread with respect to Piñera. Personally, I think power is the driving force. I do wonder if CFK is so enamoured with power, or if she was just doing the bidding of a powerful husband? I am not suggesting women do not seek power, just that CFK seems less than driven now she is a widow.
“Well, to be accurate, Cheney resigned his position with Haliburton whilst he was in office, but pretty much everyone thinks that was a charade” .....obviously ;-))
May 16th, 2011 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Was he trained in Palomar ? :-)
May 16th, 2011 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7CH9zvD6s
I don't think so ... if that would be the case , the guy would had been dead already ....
May 16th, 2011 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
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