FIRST, she thrust her finger skyward. Then came a right-left combo, punctuated with an eruption of hip swaying. Beside her with a rigid smile stood Daniel Scioli, the governor of Buenos Aires province and presidential candidate, looking like a child mortified by the antics of his mother. The campaign rally, held earlier this month, was meant to be for him, but the outgoing Argentine president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, stole the spotlight.
The Americas | Argentina’s elections
The end of kirchnerismo
And the beginning of saner economic policies, perhaps
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "The end of kirchnerismo"
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