Unwelcome Signs for the U.S. in Argentina’s New Administration

On December 10th, Argentina inaugurated a new president. Recent elections brought back former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is ensnared in nearly a dozen corruption scandals and heads the hard-left Peronist faction in Congress, as the country’s vice president. Despite the fact that the head of the ticket, Alberto Fernández, is a quiet party functionary who by most accounts does not fit the usual Peronist mold — he is neither corrupt nor a populist demago