Argentina protests after Kirchner is called 'an old hag'

[lemonsalt]

Argentina protests after Kirchner is called 'an old hag'

Argentina has made an official protest after the Uruguayan president was caught on microphone apparently referring to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as an "old hag".

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Shame shame

[leprofessional]

One should definitely care to be polite towards a leader of a state, and her late husband, who has time and time shown to be corrupt. Mujica, the world's poorest president, "who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives 90% of his earnings to charity" should be ashamed of himself really. Instead of "old hag" I would have opted for "corrupt pig", or "old/young hypocrite" (if we're dealing with personal attributes) etc.

"Even before she was elected president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner carried the haze of corruption. In the most famous case, an emissary from Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, was discovered at the Buenos Aires airport carrying a briefcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash, destined, he later told the FBI, to support Kirchner’s presidential bid. Kirchner denied the allegation. Within Argentina, many question the huge fortune Kirchner and her late husband Nestor amassed since taking public office. Her declared personal wealth stands at $13.8 million, up from $500,000 when the couple first entered national politics. Kirchner cites income from real estate and hotels the couple had purchased to explain the 2,600 percent return on the couple’s investment purse. Corruption watchers complain that her government has neutered government oversight, giving auditing posts to cronies compromised by conflicts of interest. The result: corruption cases take an average of 14 years to work through the system, according to the non-profit Center for the Study and Prevention of Economic Crimes, and only 15 in 750 cases have led to convictions."
http://100r.org/corruption-allstars/

Re: Shame shame

[valkeakuulas]

Even good people can say assholish things. Doesn't make gendered insults any better if a person who says them is a saint.