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April 27, 2012

Cristina Kirchner's Risky Business

Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard


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Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner cannot claim to be the only world leader to lash out against oil speculators this week. Last Tuesday President Obama used an appearance in the White House Rose Garden to do the same. . .

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