End of preview - This article contains approximately 552 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 05 September 2013 (WR-13-35)
ARGENTINA: Despite victory in Bariloche, Fernández still in a spin
A surprising amount of political commentary in Argentina is generated by President Cristina Fernández’s Twitter account. Whereas most users believe brevity is the key to the social network that restricts each post to 140 characters, Fernández merely uses the word limit as line breaks in her lengthy diatribes. Over the weekend, she used her account to attack Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera over his personal interests in the LAN airline (currently engaged in a dispute with the state-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas); this week, she used the site to welcome simultaneously her party’s mayoral victory in the city of Bariloche and to warn of a “red circle” intent on destabilising her government.
- Syria strike prompts conflicting response
- COLOMBIA: Santos’ re-election bid up in smoke
- VENEZUELA: Merentes goes off message
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Rousseff takes umbrage at latest NSA revelations
- BRAZIL: Congress plays for time again
- ARGENTINA: Despite victory in Bariloche, Fernández still in a spin
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Peña Nieto’s prospects hinge on next four months
- TRACKING TRENDS
- GUATEMALA: End in sight for Cicig
- Uruguay embraces mining
- Quotes of the week