Political wife and weapon

摘要

Until 2003, when he became Argentina's president and she became its first lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was at least as well-known and powerful a politician as her husband Nestor. Currently a senator for Santa Cruz, the couple's thinly populated home province in Patagonia, she is now Argentina's best-liked politician. It seems she is also to be the chief weapon in her husband's battle for control of the ruling Peronist party.