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Cristina Fernandez flies Jan 10 to Havana in support of Chavez and Maduro

Tuesday, January 8th 2013 - 00:49 UTC
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The Argentine government confirmed on Monday that President Cristina Fernandez would be flying on Thursday to Cuba to visit her Venezuelan peer Hugo Chavez, fighting for his life after a fourth cancer surgery with complications, and on the day which he should be taking office after October’s re-re-election. Read full article

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  • Pirate Love

    unlucky chubby, bad enough being at deaths door but to be haunted by Crustina in your final moments must be terrible, is his cancer highly contagious? just a thought....

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Would this be in the British plane she has hired,
    Well,
    Let’s hope she doesn’t claim sovereignty over it then .lol.

    .

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ajoknoblauch

    Ms. Fernández's presence is not likely to improve Mr. Chávez's chance of recovery. Her time (and Argentine taxpayers' money) would be better spent engaging her critics in a genuine dialogue.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    Actually, I'm starting to wonder if Chavez is still alive.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    The two most adored presidents in Latin America.
    long live Chavez, Castro and CFK!
    END MESSAGE!

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 02:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    Has Chubby Chavez got any gold fillings she can prise out?

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ajoknoblauch

    Will Hugo's sepulcher match Lenin's? Will his embalmer be the equal of Evita's?

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • KFC de Pollo

    @3 she's attacking her fellow peronist Scioli and An Argentine actor now....

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 04:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ozgood

    Britninja - Chavez is Chubby because of all the corticosteroids that have been pumped into him by tnot a doctor but have seen the long term consequences of these drugs

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 05:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @8 The bitch at bay.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 06:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    She's going there to get him to say “my dying wish is that the falklands become argie land” so she can milk sympathy for her misguided little agenda. *sniff* and all he wanted *sniff* was that the islands *sniff* be mine, er*sniff* ours, and as I looked in his eyes on that fateful day *sniff* I knew I was now in charge of *sniff* a great responsibility and i owe it to that great man *sniff* to do what must be done *faints* cue:Timerman rushes forward to catch her.
    It's sad because it's the kind of trick she'd try and pull.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 07:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    It is strange because all the 'friends of Venezuela' is the form of South American leaders are due to meet in Caracas on Thursday.

    What on earth will CFKC do if Chavez dies on Wednesday just before her big party?

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Pirat-Hunter From that Photo Nazi Nestor looks a right freak

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @12 ElaineB
    'What on earth will CFKC do if Chavez dies on Wednesday just before her big party?'

    Pretend?

    World: I'll tell you what's wrong with him, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with him!

    KFC: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

    World: Look, matey, I know a dead leader when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

    KFC: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable leader ,Chavez, idn'he, ay? Beautiful plumage!

    World: The plumage don't enter into it. He's stone dead.

    KFC: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!.......

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #5
    “The two most adored presidents in Latin America.
    long live Chavez, Castro and CFK!”

    By my arithmetic that comes to THREE. Which one does not make it into the pantheon of “most adored” ?

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @15 Numeracy isn't prat-crunter's strong point which is why his opinions don't count.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    Two of those people in the picture above did the nasty... and she loved it.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Optimus_Princeps

    An ape, a Donatella Versace impersonator, and Igor's uglier brother. That's a horrific scene if I've ever seen one.

    @15 Try not to pay too much attention to #5, unless of course he wins a Darwin award.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirate Love

    @18 imagine them turning up at your door on halloween!

    !Trick or treat! scar you for life!

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Hubble, Bubble toil and trouble.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    In the photo there is one already gone to his box, one hovering over his box (as far as we know, he could be dead already) and, dare I say it, one who needs to be in her box asap?

    What a great start that would be for 2013.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • fill00000

    last shag for chubby chav

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ProRG_American

    The President always shows her solidarity with her friends.

    Jan 08th, 2013 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    #15 you are right they are the three best politicians in Latin America but only two presidents and one expresident. I didn't mean to make any less of Fidel when he is the engineer of the left wing front in America, 50 years in power doesn't come without international support.
    #16 your opinion isn't worth much when everyone can count two presidents and one ex-president but I must admit you are all right, they are three of the best politicians in America.
    #17 I didn't know there was a brit and a child in the meeting, did I miss something?
    #21 your attitude here makes me wish every brit got poisoned and died, But we can all wish for what we want in life and in time do as we wish. A von fire at the british and US embassy in Argentina would be a greater start for 2013.
    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64333.shtml

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @24 Pratt-Junta

    Found out who your father is yet?

    You need to know that to find out if you are an argie or just a bastard. Mind you TMBOA has plenty of cowardly bastards in her (laughingly called) government.

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ozgood

    SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    I've been wondering for quite a time about this “von” fire that PH keeps going on about!!!!!!

    I suppose it is meant to be a bonfire, or on the other hand maybe an aristocratic German fire!!!!!

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    27 Simon68

    Love the second paragraph!

    Don't think there is anything aristocratic about the wanabe Argentine living in Canada though.

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    Very sweet of Cristina to stand by her comrade and friend, between her touching personal visit and the appearance of the others in Caracas it really is beatiful to see Latin America rallying round its champion this way. What a come down the emirates sheikhs will be after that, and I wonder what they'll be thinking of the socialist credentials of their visitor =) Lovely picture btw, 3 great presidents, if only we had many more world leaders like them...

    #8 “@3 she's attacking her fellow peronist Scioli and An Argentine actor now....”

    Very glad to hear it =) I always thought that Argentina's “full alignment with the Bolivarian axis” as assured in this article would trump the fact Scioli, a conservativ, belongs to the same catch all party as Cristina. I just can't see her endorsing or in any way smoothing the way for him to take over and realign Argentina presumably with the IMF and the US. Either Cristina will have a third term (my preference) or endorse a successor as Lula and now Chavez has done; barring a victory by the (weak, divided, and above all hated for being oligarchic) opposition the K-Chavista movement will go on =) (Who's the actor though and what's he done?)

    Jan 11th, 2013 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #29
    ?????????????????????????????

    Jan 11th, 2013 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @29 B_S_K

    I told you about the pop star or 'actor' as he is now being called who questioned how was it that TMBOA has managed to amass all her money when they were broke and Nestor 'borrowed' USD 300 M from his region (interest free naturally) and the following investigation was dropped when he became President.

    Who would have thought that?

    TMBOA claims to be a lawyer but she never finished her degree and is not registered, so she lied about that as well.

    Who would have thought that?

    Everybody except the Peronistas and YOU.

    Jan 11th, 2013 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #29
    It will be a come down - they will see her for what she is.

    Do you actually have a vote in Argentina ?

    I am confused with Argentine politics. If it is a democracy - it does not look like it. From here , it looks like a quasi dictatorship.

    You seem to think that Argentina is the road to follow in political thinking. Whatever CFK does or suggests is pure brilliance and any criticism must be dismissed as not worthy of thought.

    I presume your ideal would :-
    1) To live in the paradise of Argentina or Venezuela or
    2) Install the same political system in the UK.

    Of the two options I would rather you took option 1

    Jan 11th, 2013 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    I prefer option 2. And to do it the same way as they did of course, democratically =)

    Jan 13th, 2013 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #33
    That's a relief. ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE OF THAT !

    Jan 13th, 2013 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @33 B_S_K

    Well done!

    That is the first time you have stated that and I frankly never thought I would ever see it.

    Jan 13th, 2013 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #34 Why not, we used to have a real labour party, why not again? And in Greece the radical left is already the official opposition and on course to eventual victory

    #35 Why all the fuss, and btw if I was dodging anything I wasn't aware of it,the political system of Ven and Arg is multiparty democracy, with left labour governmnet, nothing to be afraid of here =)

    Jan 14th, 2013 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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