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Joseph Contreras
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Jul 17, 2007 11:01 AM
From the moment he became president of Argentina in May 2003, Nestor Kirchner and his wife Cristina billed themselves as "progressive" standard-bearers of the Peronist party who would deliver a style and substance of leadership very different from their party's last chief of state, Carlos Menem. The toxic mix of rampant corruption and blanket amnesties for human rights abusers that stamped Menem's ten-year-long presidency would become distant memories under Kirchner, who pledged to reopen hundreds of cases involving atrocities committed by the military in the mid- and late 1970s during its so-called Dirty War against leftists. From her seat in the Argentine Senate, Cristina de Kirchner would fight for greater transparency in government and sweeping reform of the country's notoriously bent judiciary.
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