Andres Oppenheimer: With Team Fernandez´s victory, Argentina should brace itself for more populism - and ...
(WorldNews Argentina)

The joke about Argentina´s habit of electing populist leaders says: If you go back to that country after a week, everything has changed, but if you go back after 30 years, nothing has changed. Indeed, Sunday´s landslide victory by the Peronist ticket headed by presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez and former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina´ s primary elections almost guarantees that Peronist populism will win the Oct. 27 presidential elections. If history is any lesson, that will worsen Argentina´s chances of becoming an economically viable country. The Fernandez-Fernandez populist ticket - the candidates are not related - trounced pro-business President Mauricio...