Saturday, April 6, 2013

Argentine President is labelled an ?old hag? by Uruguayan leader unaware his mic was switched on

URUGUAY?S president has started an Argy-bargy ? by branding his Argentinian counterpart an ?old hag?.

Argentina has made a formal protest over Jose Mujica?s remark about Cristina Kirchner, 60.

Famously candid Mr Mujica did not know his microphone was on when he spoke about Ms Kirchner ? who has led recent sabre-rattling against Britain over the Falklands.

He was heard telling a colleague before a press conference: ?That old hag?s worse than the cross-eyed one.?

The remark referred to Ms Kirchner?s late husband and former Argentinian president Nestor Kirchner.

Nestor Kirchner and Jose Mujica

Tension ... Nestor Kirchner and Jose Mujica, right

Mr Mujica, 77, said: ?Cross-eyes was more of a politician, she?s just stubborn.? He then went on to mock Ms Kirchner?s visit to Rome last month, when she presented Pope Francis, who is from Argentina, with a flask to drink traditional ?mate? tea.

He said: ?She actually went to the Pope, who has lived 77 years, to explain what is tea and what is a thermal flask!?

Buenos Aires has made an official complaint to the Uruguayan government.

Foreign minister Hector Timerman called the comments ?outrageous?. There is a history of bad blood between the two South American countries. In 2007 Nestor Kirchner accused Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez of ?stabbing Argentina in the back? after he re-started operations at a border pulp mill that Argentina had blockaded.

And in 2002 Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle Ibanez accused Argentinians of being ?a bunch of thieves?.

b.perrin@the-sun.co.uk

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4875524/Argentine-President-is-labelled-an-old-hag-by-Uruguayan-leader-unaware-his-mic-was-switched-on.html

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