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Andrew Godinich / February 3, 2012 12:30 pm
...eaders with cancer. Not to be outdone on the Ridiculous Scale, Comrade Cristina Kirchner of Argentina chose January to beat our favorite dead horse: the territorial status of the Falkland Islands – excuse me, “Las Malvinas.” Argentina has long claimed that the barren islands off the coast of Tierra del Fuego are their sovereign territory, even going to war over them in the ill-fated Falkland Islands Conflict. But their irascible President has ch...
Damien Coruzzi / September 19, 2012 8:30 pm
...obal political figure, and an emblem of success for many women around the world. After winning her second mandate on a landslide in 2011 (54 percent), Kirchner has started to see the tide turn against her. Her manipulation of Argentina’s official inflation statistics, populism, and hypothetical search for re-election might get the better of her initial popularity. On September 14, thousands marched in Buenos Aires and around the country to expres...
Arvind Srinivasan / November 6, 2012 12:09 am
...co’s director of state security, and they went on to lose the second leg 11-1, thus keeping the trophy in the capital. It wasn’t an isolated case. In 1953, Barcelona agreed to sign Alfredo Di Stéfano from Milionarios in Argentina, only for the deal to be nullified by the national soccer federation and opening the door for Real Madrid to sign him instead. He would go on to be Madrid’s all-time greatest player. Starved for financial backing a...
Bruno Mendes / December 16, 2012 9:13 pm
...mplifies a palliation of their consequences. Nevertheless, the international community has been primarily optimistic while observing the trial’s development. The results were particularly praised in neighboring countries like Argentina and Ecuador, where increasingly authoritarian governments seem to be headed in an opposite direction, cracking down on free press and showing little sign of tackling internal corruption and impunity. Clarín, Argent...
Pooja Reddy / December 8, 2010 2:56 pm
...f its reconstruction. Future applications of such a program would clearly not work in states with strong, sovereign structures, regardless of how corrupt or mismanaged their economic procedures and assets may be. For example, Argentina has obtained the dubious distinction of being one of the most corrupt states in Latin America. While serious economic and political management measures must be introduced, it is highly unlikely that the “trus...
Andrew Godinich / April 20, 2012 8:00 am
...future summits if Cuba were not present – a clear affront to the traditional American “hegemony” of these meetings. However, the absentee Castros were not the only contenders for the spotlight. Cristina Kirchner, president of Argentina (and the apotheosis of all that is wrong with South America today), needed her 15 minutes as well. Only too happy to use the multinational stage of the summit as a platform to continue to beat the dead horse of the...
CPR / June 28, 2012 5:57 pm
...n into a Mexican and German family of university professors. She is an alumna of the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore and a spokesperson for the organization in Mexico. Valeria has lived in Germany, India, Argentina, Buenos Aires, and Chiapas while volunteering in different service projects. Among her strongest academic interest are criminal law and the politics behind the criminalization of those involved in organized crime....
Damien Coruzzi / July 17, 2012 12:55 pm
...o by suspending Paraguay from trade negotiations, and the region’s main leftwing leaders have expressed their outrage at the situation. However, the diplomatic responses from Paraguay’s neighbors were often met with cynicism: Argentina and Brazil were especially keen on replacing Paraguay with Venezuela inside Mercosur. On the contrary, the U.S.’s silence on the affair has drawn criticism and some have argued that the coup, through the rise to po...
Michael Ard / September 22, 2012 4:28 pm
...ore point for hardcore nationalists in China for some time now. Imagine the ridiculous and baseless passionate rage surrounding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic. Now multiply the dispute between Britain and Argentina by one billion people. Add on the unsettled historical hatred left by World War II (not to mention a long history of other conflicts).Raise to the power of the second and third largest economies on earth. And don’t...
Chris Brennan / April 6, 2012 6:00 am
...inean-British dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Malvinas, – by stating that he hopes both sides can come to agreement through an arbiter, though it is difficult because the British has not agreed to sit down to talks with Argentina about the issue....
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