Another war that refuses to end.
Cristina Kirchner racked up her war of words with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands last week, but then Argentina’s glamorous president tends to lay it on a bit thick. “Slaps it on” would be more apt. “I have painted myself like a door since I was 14 years old,” she said once, “and I spend more time on makeup and dressing than I do at the gym.”
Kirchner’s excessive maquillage may appear to have little to do with crude oil in the Falklands’ disputed waters. Yet to many Argentinians there was something distasteful about their 57-year-old head of state posing as a diva on the world stage, enhanced by designer suits, stiletto heels and — it is rumoured — cosmetic surgery, while thousands of poor people were camping out in the cities to protest at their lack of jobs and welfare.
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