[Peace-discuss] Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF

[Robert Naiman]

The past president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, has died
unexpectedly of a heart attack.

U.S. media aren't likely to give us much coverage that indicates what
Kirchner meant to many people in South America. This is a pretty safe
bet, in part because to understand what Kirchner meant, you have to
understand Kirchner's role in a story that the U.S. media have never
told properly: how, in the last 15 years, South America has been
breaking free of Washington-prescribed economic and security policies.
Since the US media never told this story, they'd be hard put to
explain Kirchner's role in it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/remembering-nestor-kirchn_b_774894.html


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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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