Yoko is visiting us from Japan for 12 days! Yay! She just arrived today, so we are having a celebratory drink of Malbec Rosado (which is so-so). Tomorrow we have a short tour of the city`s main sights planned - depending on her jet-lag.
In other news the Argentine President for the next four years will indeed be Christina Kirchner, who won over 40 % of the popular vote, and so avoiding going to a second ballot in November. She is, as i have mentioned, the wife of the current president (Nestor Kirchner) but this should not be taken to mean that she is either capable or incapable of the job. Hopefully she will continue the strategies of their common party in moving Argentina forward and away from the economic crash of six years ago that is still so much on the minds of the Argentine people. Hopefully also she will take many of the oppositions suggestions on how to make the government more accountable overall so as to avoid the corruption and in-fighting that has plagued this still-new democracy. No matter what happens, the next four years here should prove very interesting here in Argentina.
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