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<\/p>\nArgentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd celebrating a decade of the government she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003 and suggesting that she may not be stand for another term.<\/p>\n
She called the 10 year period a victorious decade, “won not
\nby a government but by the people,”<\/i> which led the country out
\nof an economic crisis to a period of growth.<\/p>\n
This year Argentina is to have an election that will determine
\nwhether Fernandez will extend her rule beyond 2015. If she gains
\nenough support in congress she will have the opportunity to change
\nthe constitutional term limits.<\/p>\n
Though she suggested that she won\u2019t try to run for the next term
\nsaying “I’m not eternal, nor do I want to be.”<\/i><\/p>\n
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After her husband Nestor Kirchner died of a heart attack in
\n2010, Fernandez has intensified her government’s control over the
\neconomy and diverted billions of dollars more to subsidizing the
\npoor.<\/p>\n
“Equality is the grand symbol of this decade and of those to
\ncome,”<\/i> she commented during the celebrations.
She succeeded her husband in 2007, taking over a flagging economy
\nthat now appears threatened by high inflation rate, at around 20
\npercent and among the highest in Latin America according to
\nAFP.<\/p>\n
“This decade represents a tremendous missed opportunity,
\nwhich you can see by looking at what other countries in the region
\nhave done with similar possibilities and limitations,”<\/i> said
\nsociologist and attorney Roberto Gargarella.<\/p>\n
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However the Kirchners have been praised for policies enabling
\nthe prosecution of military officials for human rights abuses
\ncommitted during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was extraordinary what they did in human rights and
\neconomics,”<\/i> said sociologist Jorge Giacobbe. It is reported by
\nAFP.<\/p>\n
Political and economic tensions ignited mass protests in the
\npast years and led to a historic default on its $132 billion
\nforeign debt. These tensions “are evidence that the end of a
\ncycle has arrived,”<\/i> noted Giacobbe.<\/p>\n
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