Diego Armando Maradona Dead at 60.

[UK Man]

He seems to have become old news already.

 

[antipodean]

He seems to have become old news already.

El fuerte editorial de The Economist sobre Alberto Fernández: “Es un presidente sin plan”

Dice que el intento de ganar popularidad con el velorio de Maradona evidenció la debilidad del mandatario, quien encabeza una coalición “incómoda” y tiene un “matrimonio político sin amor” con Cristina Kirchner

www.infobae.com

According to the economist, he’s the president without a plan.

His pathetic attempt to organize and control something as simple as a public mourning event demonstrate this point nicely... the impotent fool who deluded himself with fantasies of popularity and power, insisting on doing it all himself, standing in front of the masses he thought we on “his side” trying to convince them to behave... instead they told him to shut up and stormed the cada rosada forcing him and Cristina to hide in a basement (or something like this.)

At least we can thank Maradona for putting on one last circus for our amusement and exposing popularism for all that it is.

 

[Pierre Smith]

Oh man, great quote:

In an editorial, Il Giornale newspaper, owned by the Berlusconi family, called Maradona a “cheat, drug addict, alcoholic, violent sexist with women, tax evader and communist: the worst of the worst of the worst.”

I want that quote on my tombstone!

Maradona divides Italy, in life and in death

Argentine footballer is worshipped in Naples but in the north, the view is very different.

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