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Argentina president claims US plotting to oust her
The Guardian ^ | 10/01/2014 | Uki Goni

Posted on 10/01/2014 11:17:17 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Argentinian opposition politicians have accused the country’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of being “completely out of touch with reality” after she gave a rambling televised address in which she claimed the US may be behind a plot to overthrow her government and possibly even assassinate her.

“If something should happen to me, don’t look to the Middle East, look to the North,” Fernández said during the address on Tuesday night, in which she alluded to an alleged plot against her by local bankers and businessmen “with foreign help”.

Fernández had previously claimed to have received death threats from Islamic State (Isis) because of her friendship with Pope Francis. In last night’s speech, however, she seemed to suggest the threats against her, received in three emails to Argentinian security officials, had come from the US.

Her claim comes in the wake of a rapid deterioration of Argentina’s already rocky relationship with the US after the country went into default in August.

Argentina has rejected paying $1.3bn (£990m) awarded by New York Judge Thomas Griesa to “vulture fund” investors who refused to accept a “haircut” on Argentinian bonds from the country’s previous default in 2001.

“I’m not naive, this is not an isolated move by a senile judge in New York,” said Fernández. “Because vultures look a lot like the eagles of empires,” referring to the bald eagle, the national symbol of the US.

With economic stagnation, Argentina’s peso currency in free fall and an alarming rise in crime levels, Fernández has seemed increasingly beleaguered in the last few weeks.

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To: BigEdLB

Ella es completamente loca...


21 posted on 10/01/2014 11:50:25 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up yoiur boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: rrrod

“For the record Argentina has never been a real country..more like the zone of mexico.”

What record? A century ago Argentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.


22 posted on 10/01/2014 11:50:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: rrrod

Do you live in Columbia?


23 posted on 10/01/2014 11:51:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

LOL

The clowns running the US can’t find their backside with both hands, much less try to overthrow some Argentinean bimbo.


24 posted on 10/01/2014 11:53:20 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Rusty0604
"You hate me, don't you, Rick?"

"I probably would... if I thought of you at all."

25 posted on 10/01/2014 11:53:46 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Ax

Interesting. And when I looked I saw this: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/south-america-region-under-watch-for-signs-of-terrorists.html Basically it says that part of Argentina is where terrorists go to hide, using fake ID. Money is raised for terrorist groups there. Etc.

At http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2008/2tri08/novakoffeng.htm it says there is a Hezbollah group with branches in Argentina and in Venezuela. That brings to mind the direct unchecked flights from Iran to Venezuela with Hezbollah and Hamas operatives...


26 posted on 10/01/2014 11:55:44 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Rusty0604

part time


27 posted on 10/01/2014 11:56:25 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: butterdezillion

If it was good enough for the Nazis...


28 posted on 10/01/2014 11:58:41 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Alex Murphy

“If something should happen to me, don’t look to the Middle East, look to the North,” Fernández said during the address on Tuesday night, in which she alluded to an alleged plot against her by local bankers and businessmen “with foreign help”.

The foreign help being George Soros.
He wants his money but Argentina still has creditors to pay from the last default in 2001 and he has to get in line.
George is not happy....


29 posted on 10/01/2014 11:58:42 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Rusty0604

Parador, I love you.

30 posted on 10/01/2014 11:59:27 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: rrrod

Glad you can keep us posted on events there that might affect us all. Stay safe!


31 posted on 10/01/2014 12:00:11 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Why would our socialist nation want to harm her socialist nation?


32 posted on 10/01/2014 12:04:21 PM PDT by afsnco
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To: afsnco

South America has low information voters too.


33 posted on 10/01/2014 12:10:55 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Ive posted pics and articles here in the past..mostly on my old home state of NC. Colombia is a great country to live...Im retired and travel back and forth.


34 posted on 10/01/2014 12:11:40 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Rusty0604

Yeah, Obama’s thinking of taking the Argentina Prez gig next. Want’s to make sure everything’s ready for him.


35 posted on 10/01/2014 12:22:25 PM PDT by captain_dave
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Another example of the question:

Who would actually be stupid enough to loan them money?

Also, how much of that money has she got stashed away in foreign banks?
Is she a billionaire like Yasser Arafat?


36 posted on 10/01/2014 12:48:39 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rusty0604
Made some trips to Venezuela in the early 2000’s when Hugo was spouting the same stuff. I always wondered what would bother him more; that Americans really were aligned against him or the truth, most American had no idea who he was and could find his country on a map?

Hatred or indifference, what is more insulting?

37 posted on 10/01/2014 1:08:49 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Rusty0604
Yeah....I;d try a slice if thst:


38 posted on 10/01/2014 1:24:53 PM PDT by capt. norm
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To: Rusty0604

And the claims of the leader of a banana republic are noteworthy because....?


39 posted on 10/01/2014 2:44:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: Rusty0604
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, socialist protegee of Castro and Chavez, has gone paranoid. She really thinks Obama gives a damn about Argentina? Obama couldn't find it on a map.
40 posted on 10/01/2014 5:01:42 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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