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WORLD NEWSThursday 26 November 2015
Outgoing Argentine president says she’s not going away Two massacres in
12 hours leave 15
PETER PRENGAMAN ing the presidency, Fernan- Congress. erful force as opposition dead in Honduras
Associated Press dez was a central figure as But Fernandez will also leader than as a former
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina first lady in the administra- face fierce competition. A president who had to play ALBERTO ARCE
(AP) — When Argentines tion of her late husband principal adversary will be nice with the new party Associated Press
chose a new president in and predecessor, Nestor Sergio Massa, a former Fer- standard-bearer. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two
recent elections, many Kirchner, and as a senator. nandez Cabinet chief who In the days after Scioli’s massacres that killed 15
voters seemed more con- “Know this,” Fernandez broke with the president worse-than-expected people in less than 12 hours
cerned about what would told thousands of support- to form his own political showing in the first round of rocked Honduras and left
happen with the old one. the country’s top police of-
Such is the hold of out- Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez waves to supporters after inaugurating medical services ficial in tears Wednesday.
going President Cristina at a public hospital in Moron, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Nov. 25, Police said seven victims
Fernandez on the public 2015. The South American leader steps down Dec. 10 after eight years in the presidential office. were shot in the capi-
imagination in this South Fernandez, 62, has said little about her future, other than repeatedly promising not to go away. tal of Tegucigalpa early
American country, where Wednesday, while eight
the telegenic, combative (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) bus drivers were killed in
and polarizing leader steps the northern city of San Pe-
down Dec. 10 after domi- ers late last month. “I won’t movement. Massa got 21 the election, speculation of dro Sula late Tuesday.
nating the political land- be president Dec. 10, but I percent of the vote in the a rupture between him and Police commissioner Leo-
scape during eight years will always be there for the first round of presidential Fernandez was so intense nel Sauceda gave a news
in office. Fernandez, who people when I’m needed.” voting last month, appeal- that Scioli felt compelled to conference where bodies
was constitutionally barred But the lack of clarity over ing to dissident Peronists come out and dispel what were found after the at-
from running for a third her future has not stopped frustrated by Fernandez’s he said were unfounded tack in the capital, where
consecutive term, leaves speculation. administration. rumors. six of the victims were
with high approval ratings In the short-term, Fernan- “Peronism is entering a In Fernandez’s first com- pulled from their homes
despite myriad economic dez will try to keep control process of rupture and ments after the first found, and killed. People could
problems and the cloud of of the Peronist Party, which change,” said Roberto she spoke for two hours, be heard crying in the
several alleged corruptions maintains a majority in the Bacman, director of the touting her record, remi- background when a re-
scandals. Senate, the largest bloc in Center for Public Opinion niscing about her late hus- porter asked the police
Perhaps most significantly, the lower house and gov- Studies, a South American band and promising to de- chief how he felt.
she’ll be leaving after a ernorships of 15 out of 24 research firm. “The fight is fend the power couple’s “I can’t feel anything other
major political defeat: Her provinces. to see who will be its leader accomplishments. She nev- than pain, sadness, much
chosen successor, Daniel She’ll have some powerful over the next four years.” er mentioned Scioli. sorrow for what happened
Scioli, lost Sunday’s presi- allies, including son Maximo One common theory, flatly Raul Aragon, director of ... It hurts to see a scene
dential election to Mauricio Kirchner, who leads large rejected by her supporters, consulting firm Raul Ara- like this,” said Sauceda,
Macri, who campaigned political youth movement is that Fernandez want- gon and Associates, says breaking into tears. “But it’s
on free-market ideas as called La Campora, and ed Scioli to lose, and thus Fernandez’s chances of not time to drop our guard.
well as promises to roll outgoing Economy Minister didn’t campaign hard on returning to power have It’s time to keep fighting for
back many of Fernandez’s Axel Kicillof. his behalf. The logic is that been hurt by the success of the welfare of Honduras
left-leaning policies and Both have been elected to she could be a more pow- Maria Eugenia Vidal. q and this family that is suffer-
distance the country from ing.” He said the manner of
Venezuela. the attack suggests an at-
“It’s unlikely that Fernandez tack by gangs, who battle
goes quietly into the night,” for territory to charge ex-
said Jason Marczak, dep- tortions and sell drugs. The
uty director of the Atlantic same morning, investiga-
Council’s Adrienne Arsht tors found a voodoo doll
Latin America Center. “But stuffed with needles and
her concrete plans post- bearing Sauceda’s face at
election? Your guess is as one of the crime scenes.
good as mine.” In the other massacre, six
Fernandez, 62, has said lit- men in flak jackets and ski
tle about her future, other masks got off a bus at a
than repeatedly promising terminal outside the city of
not to go away. It’s hard to San Pedro Sula on Tuesday
imagine anything less from and shot eight bus drivers
Argentina’s most important one by one. Transport di-
female political figure since rector Geovanny Dubon
Eva Peron, the country’s said the attack should be
iconic first lady from the classified as “terrorism.”q
1940s. Even before assum-
