“The international bond market has shunned Argentina since its 2002 sovereign debt default and subsequent embrace of policies that emphasize state intervention in the markets and heavy government spending meant to stoke economic growth. Fernandez campaigned on promises of deepening the interventionist policy model of her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner. Since then the economy has slowed, and the poll suggests most people are not buying Fernandez’s argument that external factors, such as Europe’s financial mess, are mostly to blame.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/26/us-argentina-fernandez-poll-idUSBRE87P07620120826
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