100 Días

Reina Cristina

In the 100 days since Cristina Fernández de Kirchner succeeded her husband in the December 10 ceremony pictured above, not a lot has gone as she presumably hoped. Despite all the predictions the Cristina would project a kinder, gentle and more internationalist face on the world stage and ease back from her husband's closeness with Hugo Chavez, her first experience as president was to be accused, via a U.S. prosecutor's sting operation in Miami, of receiving $800,000 from the Venezuelan leader for her campaign, something which led her to lash out at the United States' "garbage" intelligence operations against her and pushed her to further embrace Chavez. Things didn't get better. Her daughter took to posting bawdy and revealing fotologs on the web; blackouts--some of multiple day duration--swept through Argentina, reminding everyone of the country's inpending energy crisis; and the nation's agricultural sector, responsible for a huge part of Argentina's wealth (not to mention its food), went on strike.

Argentina without beef. Not good.

For two nice wrapups on the Queen's first 100 days, check out these stories from Newsweek and the FT (both penned by Goodairs friends, natch). And pray that it gets better.