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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2012 (ISSN 1741-4431)
ARGENTINA: Fernández swaps team – grooming for 2015?
The state of the Argentine transport system is notorious. On 6 June President Cristina Fernández removed responsibility for the sector from the planning minister Julio de Vido and, oddly, transferred it to the interior ministry, run by Florencio Randazzo, a minister who, like De Vido, has latterly fallen out of favor with the president. Critics said the move was like ‘mixing grapefruits with horseradish’ and questioned whether the president made her decission based on managerial ability alone. There is a suspicion that the president is putting prospective 2015 political heirs to the test, to see how they perform under pressure and intense public scrutiny.
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