Máximo Kirchner’s Big Gamble
The Argentine politician’s dissent from the government over an IMF deal deepens divisions within the ruling coalition.
BUENOS AIRES – Peronism has a curious epistolary history. The movement’s founder, Juan Domingo Perón, exchanged letters with his supporters while in exile, skillfully playing rival ideological factions against each other and setting the stage for his eventual return to Argentina’s presidency in the 1970s. Now, decades later, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has taken to penning explosive, public criticisms of the current government, in which she also serves as vice president. The habit seems to run in the Kirchner family. Cristina Kirchner’s son, lawmaker Máximo...
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