Kirchner

While Ms. Kirchner questions the instructional effectiveness of online courses, she said there was a place for them at some level.

She even joked that "it was all good" after she enjoyed some pork with her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner.

Although this was the result of policy mistakes and global financial instability, Mr Kirchner preferred to blame it on "neoliberalism" .

But why might Mr Kirchner yield to his wife, a senator and an experienced politician in her own right?

Mr Kirchner has hinted that he will run for president again in 2011. By then Argentines may want to see the back of him.

Mr Kirchner's popular government is the most nationalist of any since the war.

President Kirchner and his wife lead the Peronist party, a movement that grew out of the rule of General Peron.

As it turned out, one of the few things in Argentina Mr Kirchner could not hope to control was his own health.

In the short run, Mrs. Kirchner is likely to receive an enormous outpouring of sympathy for her loss.

After years of unquestioned authority, the Kirchners suffered an embarrassing defeat in a midterm election last June.

But polls suggest Mr Kirchner would win even more easily than his wife.

But Mr Kirchner's death leaves her bereft not just of her lifelong partner but of her chief political adviser.

Indeed, a few businessmen who enjoy good relations with the Kirchners have done well in recent years.

Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner died Wednesday of a heart attack in Calafate, Reuters reported.

With a presidential election due in October, many expected Mr Kirchner to use the anniversary to bang the nationalist drum.

Among them is Roberto Lavagna, who gained international prominence as economy minister under President Kirchner and his predecessor.

Mr Kirchner, who has taken back control of the Peronists, says he and his followers are "determined to continue governing until 2020. "

Kirchner raised researchers' salaries, launched a scheme to repatriate departed scientists and gave tax breaks to software companies.

Like Mr Kirchner, she does not submit to press conferences or interviews by Argentine journalists.

Where Mr Kirchner seemed to relish confrontation, she ran as a consensus-builder.

Kirchner made positive comments on Argentina-China ties, saying Argentina valued strategic partnership with China.

In her first speech as president, Kirchner vowed to wage a war on poverty.

One big doubt is whether she will take the steps, eschewed by Mr Kirchner, needed to engineer a soft landing for the economy.

It is to try to preserve the loyalty of the mayors that Mr Kirchner has made many of them congressional candidates.

Mr Kirchner's brutal debt restructuring helped at first (but the later failure to tie up the loose ends has not).

President Kirchner's current visit has further enriched China-Argentina strategic partnership.

With Mr Kirchner's death, the political era engendered by the chastening collapse of 2001 is drawing to a close.

Although the economy is booming again, Mr Kirchner only recently authorised the first tariff increase for residential users in five years.

But the opposition is divided, and it was thrown further into disarray by Mr Kirchner's death of a heart attack on October 27th.

"I hope Cristina doesn't kick me out" of the presidential residence, Mr Kirchner has reportedly said.

Moreover, Mr Kirchner used his control of public spending to take over Peronism and sideline its centre-right faction.

A power struggle will now break out within Peronism, the country's dominant political movement which Mr Kirchner had commandeered.

After winning control of Congress in a mid-term election in 2005, Mr Kirchner dumped the prudent Mr Lavagna.

He accuses Mr. Kirchner of squandering these gains and says Cristina Fernandez would do no better.

The fortunes of Argentina's leaders have often been tied to global demand for the country's farm exports. The Kirchners are no exception.

Mr Kirchner's passing is an unexpected milestone in that decline.

Mr Kirchner demanded that the Americans send Mr Antonini to Argentina to face justice there.

For the 57-year-old Mrs. Kirchner, her husband's death creates what Argentine pollster Mariel Fornoni calls a 'test of fire. '

If the vote were held today, Mr Kirchner would win easily.

Q: It's reported that former President Kirchner of Argentina passed away on October 27.

Mr Kirchner's officials insist that they will stick to their liberal approach.

This year President Kirchner and I realized the exchange of visits.

In Argentina, Cristina Kirchner not only approved gay marriage, but also pushed the country just shy of decriminalizing abortion.

In addition, Christina's husband, Nestor Kirchner, died suddenly in October last year, so she won the sympathy and support of many voters.

He is spending a record sum on advertising, and has hired many of the marketeers who worked for Mr Kirchner in the past.

Treatment of patellar fracture with modified tension band of Kirchner wire