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Five leaders miss CFK inauguration ceremony to be aired live in Youtube
The presidents of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico, Hugo Chávez, Juan Manuel Santos, Ollanta Humala, Rafael Correa and Felipe Calderón have cancelled their trips to Buenos Aires and won’t attend President Cristina Fernández inauguration ceremony on Saturday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDon't ya worry Mercopress, it will be on tv and the internet all day for weeks and years, even the British Broadcasting Corporation will give you the chance to witness such an important moment :)
Dec 10th, 2011 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0that has to be lies,
Dec 10th, 2011 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0surley argentine supporters would never let them down,
would they lol.
@ 2 Elizabeth II will stick with the TV watching the scenes hahaha
Dec 10th, 2011 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Lies. Damn lies. So many Friends not attending. Maybe the British intercepted the memo's and then changed them. yes that's it. phew...for a moment i thought everyone thought I was a laughing stock”!
Dec 10th, 2011 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0CFK after hearing her party was being held on the same day as Gonzalo Higuaín's Birthday bash.
if it's in youtube I doubt they will miss anything ?? now that mercopress mentions it I'll like to watch it, this is one of the greatest moments in Latin American history.
Dec 10th, 2011 - 07:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0this is one of the greatest moments in Latin American history.
Dec 10th, 2011 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jees your easy to please
“peasants” lol who wrote this, and in what century?
Dec 10th, 2011 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i say we grant these peasants a pound of grain each, reduce whippings, and a shiny new coconut for the good ones.
I hope CFK doesn't get too near to the TV lights or her face might drop off!
Dec 10th, 2011 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What sort of 'winter emergencies' does Colombia have seeing as its on the equator and all......?
Dec 10th, 2011 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Many of Colombia's largest cities are located in montaneous areas and thus have much colder temperatures than would be expected from their latitude alone.
Dec 11th, 2011 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So nice to live this country in a moment when the President and the democratic institutions are given the importance and relevance they should have always had!
Dec 12th, 2011 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Even for those argentinians who do not like CFK: our lives is everyday a little more influenced and arranged by those who represent us in the institutions, those we chose to be there and less by corporation leaders, who nobody chose, nobody voted for and most of us don't even know that exist, even if they live on the richness that the 40 million argentinian produce.
Cheers for this moments!
I really hope Argentina and SouthAmerica will go on having important changes in the following years as it happened during the last ones. As a person who fell in love with values of the French Revolution while studying so many times at school and university, I feel so happy to see some equality, fraternity and liberty raising in the XXI century here.
It looks like it might take a revolution to get rid of the CFK clan (her son is next in line?).
Dec 12th, 2011 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0But even the illiterate masses who voted for her might wake up before then.
The Leaders must have had more important things to do!
Dec 12th, 2011 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12: illiterates?? This old story of the idea that people votes sh!t only develops antidemocratic moods in societies.
Dec 12th, 2011 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What are you so educated at? At speaking against democratic leaders? This comments seem to me more similar to a news headline on TV than to a real book. Sounds more like a reproduction of an idea broadcasted by media corporation who do not want to loose their power over people and of course will try to do everything possible to get rid of politicians who stand for a real democracy.
CFK is the person who represents Argentinians, that is no little position. So many people nobody voted for and nobody chose determines our lives in this country and in Europe, in NorthAmerica also... that I really prefer to point at those ones. I really believe this is very good. CFK uses all the power that she is supposed to have as a real President, and also lets the people take desitions and the Congress is working like never before. This is an ORGANIC DEMOCRACY.
This comments about supposing that people is not educated and votes something not convenient only develops antidemocratic moods. It is a real myth.
If I applied the same I could say that England voted sh!t on the last elections because a Government who is now making education system and the workers pay the bills of a recession. However I don't think this way. People is not well informed a lot of times by the media...
#14 Fermin
Dec 12th, 2011 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only 1/3 of the elctorate voted for her.
Read the statistics and understand what is going on AND then comment.
@15 ChrisR
Dec 13th, 2011 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 021% of the electorate didn't vote. It's a falacy to suppose her support is only based on the people who actually voted her.
Do you have statistics for the preferences of that 21% that didn't vote her.
#16 JuanStanic
Dec 14th, 2011 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have already posted the analysis of the Arg Govt declared election results:
% share of total eligible vote for CFK = 38.6%
You do not count MIGHT VOTE / WILL VOTE for CFK, ONLY HAVE VOTED for CFK.
She got 38.6% of the eligible vote. SO THAT'S IT.
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