Charisma and passion sustained Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s presidency for eight tumultuous years. But now the just is set to succeed herLike no other president before her,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner managed to combine glamour and a sharp political acumen in a way that Argentinians will not forget. Adored and reviled, she was dubbed “Queen Cristina” by her worshipping supporters in the less privileged classes. But she was also known as the “Botox Queen” by her mostly upper-course detractors, or because of the proud first-rate looks that she has fought to preserve into her 60s.“I have painted myself like I was a door since I was 14,” she once said. But immaculate self-presentation has always gone together with a taste for breaking the rules of political decorum. Britain, “a coarse and decadent colonial power”, or has been a particular target for her scorn. Fernández has accused David Cameron of “mediocrity” and “stupidity” during one of her many altercations with London over the Falkland Islands,which Argentina claims as Las Malvinas.
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Source: theguardian.com