Bracing for Potential Energy Crisis in Argentina

Published October 17, 2007

If there is a prize for political uxoriousness, then Nestor Kirchner might have a lock on this year's award.

With a presidential election looming at the end of the month, the outgoing Argentine president has been dogged by accusations that he has kept a firm lid on gas and electricity prices so as to aid the candidacy of his wife Cristina Fernandez Kirchner.

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