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Argentina’s Vice President Almost Got Murdered Last Night
The strange and serious attack and what led to it.
You’ll never get bored if you move to Argentina, I’ll tell you that.
Yesterday, I went out for a couple of beers with a friend in my neighborhood and came home around 9 pm. I stopped looking at my phone at roughly the same time.
This morning, I woke up to an avalanche of notifications about the attempted murder of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), Argentina’s former president and current VP.
So, here I am trying to make sense of it all while information is rolling in, so forgive me this story is far from perfect.
But what I can gather right now is that political polarization is as deep as it’s ever been, and that not even a serious event like this will be enough to calm things down in the short term.
A Short Timeline of Rising Tension
To explain what happened yesterday, you need to understand a little bit about recent events.
The current spike in tensions is because one of the major corruption cases against CFK reached the point where prosecutors finished presenting their evidence and allegations. They demand up to 12 years in prison for the Veep.
