Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
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Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#2Did I get it right in the part where she's talking about "thousands of years of civilization"?
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#3Regarding the wording used, "buddy" is an affective way of referring to one another between left-oriented political movements here. Extremely common in peronism but also used in several other countries from South America.
> He has the advantage of thousands of years of civilization over me. [Not sure I understood that sentence correctly.]
It refers to the bolivian/peruvian aboriginal culture from which Morales' is considered a representative so the translation is correct. It's just a political compliment, nothing more than that.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#4Regarding the wording used, "buddy" is an affective way of referring to one another between left-oriented political movements here. Extremely common in peronism but also used in several other countries from South America. > He has the advantage of thousands of years of civilization over me. [Not sure I understood that sentence correctly.] It refers to the bolivian/peruvian aboriginal culture from which Morales' is co…
Thanks! I thought that might be what she meant, but I wasn't sure.
I'm not really sure if "buddy" is a good translation of "compañer@", but it seemed about right. "Comrade" might be an equally good translation if you wanted to prejudice people in the US against her.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#5>This is a reference to the President's years-long struggle against preventative injunctions put in place by Argentine courts against her efforts to break up the big Argentine media trusts that are her strongest local political enemies.
The preventative injunction are in place to put the measures on hold while the court decides if the made-to-order laws she comes up with twice a week are constitutional or not.
For those unfamiliar with Argentinian politics: don't be too impressed with Mrs Kirchner. This Us vs Them is her bread and butter and a perfect opportunity for her to leverage for some cheap points. She's not really that communicative in real life. To put it in perspective, if Mrs. Kirchner was in Obama's spot right now facing spying accusation her response to the reports would be to totally ignore them and instruct her subordinates to mention that Snowden is a liar, all the documents are forged and everything is a plot by the enemies of the American people.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#6Seems like this content would have been a great fit for http://storify.com.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#7>This is a reference to the President's years-long struggle against preventative injunctions put in place by Argentine courts against her efforts to break up the big Argentine media trusts that are her strongest local political enemies. The preventative injunction are in place to put the measures on hold while the court decides if the made-to-order laws she comes up with twice a week are constitutional or not. For th…
...as you can see, Argentine politics are somewhat polarized.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#8I've said it since early in Correa's campaign, and I'll say it again: that guy is a really special politician. He's his country's Bismark, but he's done it all democratically. I've been living down here 9 months per year for the last 7 years and it's been an interesting time.
Check out his Enlace Ciudadanos on their youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/PresidenciaEc and you'll see how he goes way beyond the stump speech. He's spending 2 or 3 hours every week personally articulating the government's policy at the town-hall level.
Yeah, like every politician everywhere who wants to consolidate support, he uses the US as a punching bag. And the one genuinely messed-up thing he's done are his media laws, which make it hard for any large independent media companies to flourish. But he's no Hugo Chavez. He's too smart, and too good of a politician, to need to be.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#9Did I get it right in the part where she's talking about "thousands of years of civilization"?
She means that Evo is acting much more civilized than she we would have in the same situation. He asks her how she is doing before she does, so she thinks that he is acting very calm about the whole thing.
Re: Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
#10Did I get it right in the part where she's talking about "thousands of years of civilization"?
Yes, she is definitely playing with the fact that Evo is acting very calmly and being polite with her despite the situation, and at the same time making a reference to his aymaran descent. Cristina is not known for being frugal in speech nor calm when in adverse situations.