El Adios a Nestor

[Conrado]

I am really horrified at the things I am reading even published by Clarin and La Nacion. Death does not change Kirchner's miserable performance as a President. One has to strictly separate things here: this is surely a difficult time for the family, but how come at once Kirchner was a "great leader" who saved Argentina???? He had not much affection for democracy and fought anyone who though different than him. Intolerant. Violent. This things won't change for me, eventhough the Government wants to show something different (and is surely paying millions of our dear tax money in chori and vino to fill the Plaza de Mayo). Shame on many people who have no balls to stick to their opinion about his political life.

Yes! Chori and vino! That's what the tens of thousands (mainly people in their 20s and 30s) who showed up at Plaza de Mayo, waited for 5-8 hours, sang Ave María a capella, ran along el Bajo under the rain escorting the President's car ...and cried...that's what they were after: a sausage sandwhich and a glass of wine. If that's true, the Ks are the best in patronage! Getting all that for chori and vino...

BTW, I agree with what you say about Clarín and La Nación.

 

[Amargo]

Denying that many of them went to say goodbye to NK for the chori and vino is denying the essence of Kirchnerismo: populismo barato y clientelismo.
All those with drums and banners were paid by you, me and all others. I also wonder how many of them will free free of charge to El Calafate with the "aerolineas de todos".

 

[Conrado]

I can see you're in total disagreement with the government, and the nationalization of Aerolineas (and I suppose of anything else). And I don't deny the essence you describe in many rallies.

My point is that it is NOT what happened today nor yesterday. Not even the media that usually denounces patronage went as far as dismissing the turnout as simply people brought for a sandwhich or an entitlement.

Couldn't be the tiny possibility that those people were truly moved, that they honestly suppported K? (This in spite of the fact that many polls put the rejection of the government at over 60%: a square is not the country, I know).

Say they are wrong in supporting a bad government. Don't say they attended a wake because they were given a sandwhich.

Final note: no necessary to fly people to Rio Gallegos. NK was from there so local "chori-eaters" were ready to be used there

 

[Napoleon]

More importantly perry do you have any recommendations for buying unsweetened greek yoghurt in BsAs..en serio!

Absolutely!!

I thought that that new "Griego" stuff would be unsweetened. Boy was I wrong. How can you make a schwarma with SWEETENED YOGURT?!?!

 

[jp]

Plenty of my friends went down to pay their respects. Sandwiches had nothing to do with it.

 

[ghost]

After two days of spontaneous popular support Kirchner is laid to rest in Rio Gallegos

The coffin carrying the remains of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was buried late Friday at the family’s pantheon in his home town of Rio Gallegos in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, where he died last Wednesday following a massive heart attack.



Following the arrival of the coffin from Buenos Aires a cortege headed by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, family members, federal and local authorities and close friends left for the cemetery’s chapel.
But as happened in Buenos Aires thousands turned out to the streets to accompany the cortège along the way, showing their support for President Cristina Kirchner and her family, and also cheering on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the only Latin American head of state to attend the service.

 

[dr__dawggy]

After two days of spontaneous popular support Kirchner is laid to rest in Rio Gallegos

The coffin carrying the remains of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was buried late Friday at the family’s pantheon in his home town of Rio Gallegos in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, where he died last Wednesday following a massive heart attack.




Following the arrival of the coffin from Buenos Aires a cortege headed by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, family members, federal and local authorities and close friends left for the cemetery’s chapel.
But as happened in Buenos Aires thousands turned out to the streets to accompany the cortège along the way, showing their support for President Cristina Kirchner and her family, and also cheering on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the only Latin American head of state to attend the service.

What does it mean? Depends. Was Hugo seen passing any mysterious briefcases to Cristina?

 

[Gringoboy]

I can see choris and free combis for manifestations (sic)/political rallies in Plaza de Mayo, but frankly, to say that thousands of mourning Argentines attended the funeral cortege just for an effing chori is a damn insult to these people, whether you liked NK or not.
I think some of you are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[artslv]

yes, and regarding free choripans: do you think CFK personally distributed choris to all the Facebook users which put black ribbons on their profiles? and many of them were/are quite critical towards several policies of the K's at the same time.

 

[fifs2]

Having watched the 678 clips of actresses such as Florencia Pena sobbing her heart out for real, we have to accept that there are many people who have genuinely benefited from the K years (in a legal and moral way I mean ) and who thereby are genuinely gutted by his passing...I know several individuals personally who feel the same..and not surprisingly they work in an inmobilario, construction and the auto industry...not all need chopipan and vino to mourn NK.