La Nación, as we mentioned some lines ago, has taken a mild swing at the leading Frente para la Victoria party by -
in a very subtle manner - making accusations of using public spending money to finance campaigns. In fact, it should surpise noone by now that Cristina Kirchner, the president's wife and presidential candidate for October, has been travelling on our dime since the beginning of the year, and more than making concrete progress on any topic whatsoever, has looked for camera flashes to prove to everyone she (much more than her husband) can properly interact with international leaders.So, more than anything, La Nación chose to highlight that particular issue, without putting any particular blame on anyone. On a sencond note, the typical sports news goes to the Argentinean Rugby Team, still advancing in the World Cup after beating Namibia 63 to 3. This paper's third piece of news details something which we started mentioning on August 22nd - the grueling task of carrying out any documentation request / change in a state dependency. It might take hours and you may not even do what you set out to do. There have been steps taken to solve this: to do certain requests in Buenos Aires' civil registration courts, you need to reserve a time-slot and date on the internet ... which I have done, just so we can have material for this blog :-)
Clarín went down another path. Instead of local politics, they decided to go for the big one: The Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands, for those of you who are Brits) and the English's pretense to enlarge the fishing exclusion zone around the much-controverted Islands (to those of you whose Argentinean history might be a bit loose, the last Argentinean military junta decided to go to
war against England over ownership of the Malvinas ... and lost a humiliating and demeaning war 25 years ago). The way the world works nowadays, however, should see this particular dispute being settled behind the bureaucrats' desks instead of in the battlefield.The second note is the same as La Nación: The much appraised Pumas. On a third and smaller note, President Kirchner is cited as having said that Iran must go to Justice over the AMIA bombing (during the 90's, hundreds of Jews were killed in a department city bombing using a van with large amounts of explosives - if memory serves me well). As Kirchner moves to and from Chavez and to and from the US, this type of issues gains extraordinary importance in determining Argentina's role in Latin America (as Chavez friend or international community ally) and the tone is set for the soon-to-be-elected government.
I will pray for more politics next week - until then, 'nuff said!
