A lawyer and mother of two, Fernandez has built popularsupport by creating monthly stipends for families who keep theirchildren in school and supporting wage increases that havehelped reduce poverty to 20 percent from as high as 54 percentin 2003, said Artemio Lopez, a political analyst who runs
Date: Oct 23, 2011
Category: World
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Argentina's Fernandez could win re-election by landslide, but has many ...
Artemio Lopez, who directs the Consultora Equis firm, says his calculations suggests a 21 percent poverty rate among the countrys 40 million people. But he said the Kirchner era has seen the longest period of improvement since Argentina recovered its democracy.