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Bacchus4.0

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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 01:40 PM Apr 2013

'She's an old hag' Argentina's Cristina Kirchner furious as Uruguay's leader caught on mic

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/389560/She-s-an-old-hag-Argentina-s-Cristina-Kirchner-furious-as-Uruguay-s-leader-caught-on-mic

ARGENTINA made a formal complaint to neighbours Uruguay after the country’s president Jose Mujica was heard branding the Argentine President an “old hag”.
By: Mark ReynoldsPublished: Fri, April 5, 2013 21Comments Uruguay's president called Argentina's Cristina Kirchner an 'old hag'

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He was heard telling, Carlos Enciso, the governor of Uruguay’s Florida province: “That old hag’s worse than the cross-eyed one”.

The latter insult was in reference to Ms Kirchner’s late husband and former Argentinian president Nestor Kirchner.

Mr Mujica, 77, apparently went on undeterred: “Cross-eyes was more of a politician, she’s just stubborn.”
Referring to Ms Kirchner’s visit to Rome last month, when she presented the Argentinian Pope Francisco with a flask to drink traditional ‘mate’ tea, he then mocked: “She actually went to the Pope, who has lived 77 years, to explain what is tea and what is a thermal flask!”

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In a statement handed to Uruguayan Ambassador Guillermo Pomi, he stressed Argentina’s “profound unease with the terms” used by Mr Mujica.He said: “It is unacceptable the such outrageous comments, which offend the memory of a deceased person, who cannot defend himself, have been made by someone Kirchner considered her friend.”Relations between the two South American countries have deteriorated in recent years as Ms Kirchner has restricted imports and limited access to foreign currencies, measures which have hurt Uruguay’s exports and tourism industry.Nestor Kirchner accused Uruguay of “stabbing Argentina in the back” in 2007 after president Tabare Vazquez restarted operations at a pulp mill on a river bordering the two countries which Argentina had blockaded.
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'She's an old hag' Argentina's Cristina Kirchner furious as Uruguay's leader caught on mic (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 OP
Today I learned naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #1
its probably a right wing newspaper/reporter Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #2
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