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Weekly Report - 27 May 2010 (WR-10-21)
ARGENTINA: Bicentennial celebrations accentuate divisions
President Cristina Fernández delivered a speech on 25 May celebrating
the bicentenary of Argentina's first autonomous government, which paved the way
six years later for full independence. Her government has been laying the
groundwork for these celebrations ever since she came to power in 2007, but
acute political divisions undermined the festivities. Ironically, the main
thrust of her speech was to urge Argentines to display a sense of unity and to
overcome differences; this same unity and capacity to rise above differences was
conspicuous by its absence in her government's own actions.
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