Freedom in the World 2009 - Argentina |Publication Date||16 July
2009| |Cite as||Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2009 -
Argentina, 16 July 2009, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4a6452d4c.html [accessed 22 May
2013]| |Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is
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United Nations or its Member States.| Capital: Buenos Aires
Political Rights Score: 2 Civil Liberties Score: 2 President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner suffered a major defeat in the
Senate in July 2008 after she attempted to increase agricultural
export taxes by presidential decree. The proposed increase led
to months of strikes by farmers, who were supported by the
majority of Argentines. The botched handling of the tax dispute
contributed to greater opposition from within the president's
own Peronist party. Combined with rising inflation and slow