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Argentine president Cristina Kirchner survives bonk on the head
2013-10-14
Posted by: badanov

The link is in Spanish. She got hit on the head in mid August, but was only admitted to the hospital last week after complaining about headaches. They just cut her loose with admonishments about all the things to be done to recover, no air travel, relaxed schedule, etc.

Since going to the hospital, vice president Amado Boudou has been running things. Her hospital stay comes during the midterm elections campaigns close to the end of the month.

Can't help. What a shame.

This was all done without any public announcements.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oem.com.mx%2Felsoldemexico%2Fnotas%2Fn3156034.htm" target="_new">English translation of article here
-- BP.


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