Election Time for the Penguina

Sunday is election day here in Argentina. President Nestor Kirchner's wife, Cristina Fernandez, looks headed to a comfortable first-round win. My preview of the mixed legacy her husband is likely to hand her can be found here.

A few of us in the Argentine journalism community have taken a special point of pride in not using the words "Hillary" or "Evita" in these stories, although U.S. editors have probably pushed most of us to wedge them in somewhere. Fortunately mine didn't. The lack of debates or any other real drama in this three-month campaign hasn't made it easy to write about, but in a country where a "long-term" view usually means 12 months, it could be an interesting second term for los Kirchner.