When Cristina Fernandez replaced her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as Argentina's president on December 10th, she hinted that she would improve her country's strained relations with the United States. But exactly a week later a prosecutor in Miami accused five men of trying to cover up an alleged effort to funnel Venezuelan cash to Ms Fernandez's election campaign. The president promptly accused the United States government of mounting "a garbage operation" against her. With the only two of the five so far indicted pleading not guilty on December 27th, the stage seems set for months of revelations-and bad blood.
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