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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

ARGENTINA: Corruption and floods

Given the polarized nature of the Argentine electorate, and the engrained culture of high-level corruption in the country, the latest allegations against President Cristina Fernández and her former husband may not alienate her base. Nevertheless, it has certainly gifted the divided opposition a weakness to exploit, and will help to mobilise its supporters. For all the resistance to the arcane subject of judicial reform, it is the allegations that the president benefited from a money-laundering scheme that funneled money out of the country, while capital controls were being imposed at home, that boiled the blood of many protesters.

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