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Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Missing president bodes ill for 2014
After failing to appear in public for over a month (33 days to be precise), President Cristina Fernández was scheduled to reappear in public on the evening of 22 January. For as yet unexplained reasons, the usually garrulous president has had nothing to say about the police strikes, the lootings, the power cuts, the sharp fall in the peso, the depletion of foreign currency reserves and the debt renegotiations that have been dominating the headlines in Argentina since mid-December. In her absence, opposition politicians and commentators have speculated about whether the president, who underwent brain surgery towards the end of last year, is fit enough to continue in the job.
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