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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The Argies are just carrying on an old tradition of giving sanctuary to evil people.
You lucky guy. Part time in the City of Eternal Spring. Plenty of scenery.
Capt. Norm, a slice of that comes with a good helping of completely crazy with some deranged cherries on top. You don’t really want even a morsel, trust me.
OK, fellow Sonia Braga fan, Sonia is Brazilian by birth and has now a niece, Alicia. And Paraguayans were mighty offended she starred in a movie which was a thinly veiled spoof on Stroessner and Paraguay. They have lovely ladies of their own.
But Sonia is a winner. I grant you that.
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