{"id":3793,"date":"2007-10-29T17:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/29\/argentina-elects-first-female-president\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:29:21","slug":"argentina-elects-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Elects First Female President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/xicanopwr.com\/2007\/10\/argentinas-first-woman-president\/\">Para Justicia y Libertad!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/29\/america\/30argentina.3.php\">Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner<\/a> who has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentina\u2019s history. Kirchner, 54, is the wife of current President of Argentina, N\u00e9stor Kirchner and a former senator for Buenos Aires Province. In the Oct, 2007 general election, Mrs. Kirchner, she ran for president of Argentina, representing the ruling Front for Victory party, a center-left Peronist party.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez is the second woman to be elected leader of a South American nation in two years, after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Bachelet\">Michelle Bachelet<\/a>, who became Chile\u2019s president last year. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Her election extends the trend of left-leaning elected governments in Latin America, although she is more moderate than the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez. Mrs Kirchner is expected to maintain her husband\u2019s friendly relations with Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez has vowed to continue the work of her husband after winning a presidential election widely seen as a referendum on his economic policies. She has fiercely rejected the pro-market policies of the 1990s, which she blames for the 2001 crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Para Justicia y Libertad!: Congratulations to Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner who has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentina\u2019s history. Kirchner, 54, is the wife of current President of Argentina, N\u00e9stor Kirchner and a former senator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-in-the-news","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}