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摘要

Last December La Nation, an Argentine newspaper, published a series of reports revealing that companies owned by Lazaro Baez, a construction magnate, had made year-round block bookings for dozens of rooms in a luxury hotel in Patagonia owned by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner. Mr Baez, a former bank clerk and longstanding friend of Kirchner, has been the largest single beneficiary of public-works contracts in Patagonia in the decade in which the Kirchners have ruled Argentina. The paper found no evidence that the rooms were ever occupied.