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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:53 PM Jan 2012

Argentina's Fernandez surgery successful

Argentina's Fernandez surgery successful
By Reuters
Last Updated: January 4, 2012 11:43am

BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was successfully operated on for thyroid cancer on Wednesday, local media said.

The government last week announced her diagnosis of papillary carcinoma, detected during a routine medical checkup just before Christmas. Doctors have said the 58-year-old president has a better than 90 percent chance of recovery.

“Cristina’s operation was successful,” TV station Cronica said during a news broadcast.

The operation started at about 8:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) in a hospital near the capital city, Buenos Aires.

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's cancer operation 'successful' Judi Lynn Jan 2012 #1
i'm so glad to hear that she has a good chance of recovery! Peace Patriot Jan 2012 #2

Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
1. Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's cancer operation 'successful'
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 02:03 PM
Jan 2012

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's cancer operation 'successful'
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been successfully operated on for thyroid cancer.
4:26PM GMT 04 Jan 2012

Presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said that Mrs Kirchner was recovering well after her three-and-a-half hour operation.

~snip~
Tests suggested it had not spread beyond her thyroid, so the condition should be curable without chemotherapy, doctors said. They added that the 58-year-old president has a better than 90 per cent chance of recovery.

Experts say thyroid removals are about as routine as cancer surgeries can be, although the process is not without risk: surgeons must take care not to damage a nearby nerve that guides the vocal cords, or to remove the adjacent parathyroids, which regulate the body’s calcium supply.

~snip~
The president, who was easily re-elected in October and started her second four-year term in December, is often referred to in Argentina by her first name. Supporters lined the streets near the hospital, holding signs that said “Strength Cristina.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/8992591/Argentine-President-Cristina-Kirchners-cancer-operation-successful.html

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
2. i'm so glad to hear that she has a good chance of recovery!
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 09:07 PM
Jan 2012

Thanks for the info!

Cristina Fernandez and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, are as responsible as Hugo Chavez and his government for the dramatic economic and political turnaround in South America. I will never forget what Kirchner said when the Bush Junta sent down its dictate that Latin American leaders "must isolate Chavez." Kirchner replied, "But he's my brother!"

More than this, the Venezuela-Argentina alliance was the beginning of the great Latin American leftist democracy revolution which is based on principles of pulling together against U.S. interference, cooperation, peace and social justice. Venezuela helped Argentina out of ruinous World Bank/IMF (i.e., U.S.-instigated) debt. Brazil soon joined this alliance and the rest is history, leading, recently, to the formalization of CELAC, an all Latin American, EU-type institution that excludes the U.S.

Kirchner turned Argentina around, into a prosperous country--after the World Bank/IMF had turned it into a basket case. Fernandez had a rocky beginning as his successor but came into her own with a huge victory in her second election and continued recovery/prosperity in Argentina. And the same or similar stories are true of Venezuela itself, of Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries that have elected strong leftist governments with courageous leaders who defend their peoples' interests and join together to do so. This transformation has been a wonder to behold.

But the toll on Latin American leftist leaders--perhaps caused by the stress of having a U.S. bull's eye target on their backs--is rather staggering, with illness killing Cristina's husband not long ago, and cancer striking her, Lula da Silva of Brazil, Lula's successor, Dilma Rousseff, the new leftist president of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, and Hugo Chavez, and illness (stomach cancer?) also striking Fidel Castro. The latter was quite old when illness hit, but the others are/were in the prime of life.

I hope they all live long lives and experience the joy of having helped to create Latin American independence, sovereignty, and general prosperity, at long last. Latin America has the resources, and the passion for democracy and for social justice, that could make this THEIR century. And how ironical it will be if they pull this off, given that the Bushwhacks here sought U.S. domination of the 21st century--laid out in their document, "The New American Century"--by means of war, torture, militarism and massive looting.

These new leftist leaders of Latin America deserve high praise for conceiving something different and better and making such great progress on their own "New Deal." We need to look to them for clues as to how to renew our "New Deal" and how to re-create a country worthy of our democratic traditions and our peoples' long term history of progressive ideas and institutions.

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