Weekly Report - 02 May 2013 (WR-13-17)

“The dead can’t complain, but they get pissed off all the same.” José Mujica, the president of Uruguay has a tendency to speak in a mixture of idioms and riddles. His comment on the accusation by an Argentine journalist that the Uruguayan banking system was used to launder money siphoned from public works projects approved by Argentina’s late former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) was no exception. Still, having called Kirchner’s widow, the current Argentine president Cristina Fernández, “an old hag” less than a month ago, the circumlocution was perhaps designed to avoid offence.