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Dirty Linen

Someone should remind our President that you shouldn’t air your dirty linen in public. That’s what he’s been doing during his European tour. From a distance (as the song goes) he seems to have plucked up courage in reference to his tense relationship with Cristina Kirchner. Being far away from Seguir leyendo

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Autoestima

Repaso algunas de las afirmaciones más salientes de Cristina Fernández el viernes pasado en Chaco. 1) “La gente está muy mal”: chocolate por la noticia. No nos habíamos percatado. 2) “No le estamos haciendo honor a tanta confianza”: creo que se acordaron tarde, porque ya ha transcurrido más de la Seguir leyendo

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Unrealistic expectations

“Renta inesperada”. Nice euphemism for the new tax (yes, still another one) this administration has come up with. “Unexpected corporate profits”. “We have to ask those who have had a windfall to contribute,” said Alberto Fernández. I look up the word “windfall”: 1- (literally) an apple or other fruit blown Seguir leyendo

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She did it again

Last Wednesday at Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner opened this  year’s Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), where there were more than 100 lawmakers.  Hers wasn’t a “welcome speech” at all. While listening to her, I wondered whether she thought she was actually addressing her fans at “Instituto Patria”. Maybe Seguir leyendo

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