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Weekly Report - 8 March 2012 (WR-12-10)
ARGENTINA: Fernández breaks the mould
President Cristina Fernández broke many records last week during her delivery of the constitutionally mandated state-of-the-nation address to open congress. Fernández’s speech, which lasted three hours and 17 minutes and contained 23,280 words, was the longest since the return to democracy in 1983. More people tuned in to see the speech than for the most-viewed television show in the country on the day. The speech contained a couple of surprise announcements and one omission; but, unlike any other state-of-the-nation address, some of the president’s comments were deemed so offensive by the teachers’ unions that they have been widely perceived as the factor triggering the 18-district-wide teachers’ strike on Tuesday (6 March).
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