In answer to the article on Cristina Fernandez in The Independent

My answer to the article: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner-the-iron-lady-of-the-malvinas-6715348.html


Dear Mr Usborne, you're misinformed and you're also biased. Isn't it too much for just one article? Try to get your information right first and then be biased if you must.
Comparing Cristina Fernandez with Margaret Thatcher is not an insult, it's hilarious. Your most conservative prime minister and our most progressive president, really? Who's your editor, a comedian? Only someone with a great sense of humor would have allowed that title to be printed; the whole world is laughing.

But let's say that the comparison is just to sell papers to the British, who have been told that it's Cristina Fernandez who escalated the conflict, and let's see: hard facts, you either ignored them all or never bothered to look them up. Your source, Ms. Barros, hasn't helped any. Did you not guess she's with the opposition? Did you not care to consult the 54% plus who voted for the Argentine president in October last year? Yes, it can be hard to find facts about Argentina... and you would know that if you had cared to check who owns the majority of the media in this country. The opposition, and they're on your side!

I'd like to think that you're just poorly informed and not a bad professional, so I invite you to read more about our country from different sources and maybe interview an Argie or two off the streets. Also, take a look at the 20 UN Resolutions demanding that the UK start negotiations with Argentina over Malvinas/Falklands that have been ignored for the last 30 years. Guess which country has never accepted to negotiate? If you get to that point, you might ask yourself why the UN representatives would make the country (or kingdom in this case) that won the war negotiate with the defeated party? Check it out, it's a fascinating story. Malvinas is a colony, you see. Well, why spoil your fun? Go ahead, find out for yourself what happened and how it was Cameron who actually escalated the conflict, because Argentina has been saying the same thing, every year, every chance it has had for the last 30 years, and the UN has passed all these resolutions in the meantime.
Could it be that Cameron is like Thatcher and thinks a war with a faraway country will distract from popular discontent at home just like 30 years ago? Wouldn't that be an ironic turn for the title of your article?

One more thing: about the subsidies that our government is gradually taking away: they're subsidies to the rich. In 2001, when Argentina defaulted its foreign debt and the country was broke, the government granted subsidies for gas, electricity, water to the whole population, rich and poor. Now that the economy has greatly improved and the wealthier don't need subsidies anymore, they're gradually being discontinued, previously consulting the beneficiaries and cross-referencing their claims with the tax office. Naturally, the wealthy are not happy. So, it stands out immediately that the people you have consulted are the rich. How about consulting the middle class, at least, next time?

All this said with the greatest respect. War? No, thanks. The Malvinas War was a shameful conflict. The only ones who deserve to be remembered and honored are the poor, untrained Argie soldiers that found two enemies there, their own commanders from the dictatorship that ruled Argentina then and the professional British troops that were ordered by their dishonorable officials to sink a ship outside the war zone and kill unarmed soldiers. The latter is something your own Margaret Thatcher admitted to being proud of ordering herself in an interview you can find easily. Speaking of bitches :)

By the way, our equivalent of bitch is yegua (a mare). That's what the opposition calls Cristina Fernandez, and it's become a compliment to her followers. You're welcome.

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION

General Assembly

GA/COL/3225

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Special Committee on Decolonization

6th & 7th Meetings (AM & PM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS DRAFT ON FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), REQUESTING ARGENTINA, UNITED KINGDOM TO RESUME TALKS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE