tonight, cristina kirchner gave a speech of sorts that we watched together during dinner. admittedly, i can only ever understand so much of what’s going on in the news each day, and it’s not nearly as much as i’d like it to be. my best guess, however, is that the speech had something to do with cristina’s return since having her thyroid gland surgically removed in early january (for diagnosed but ultimately absent cancer). it was being televised live from the casa rosada, and reporters showed huge crowds of people in many different areas watching attentively and cheering frequently.
noticing that she looked less than thrilled to be viewing the entire scenario, i eventually got up the courage to ask my host mother if she liked cristina, to which she very flatly replied, “no.”
absolutely as soon as the speech ended, without even as much as a pause to hear a bit of the followup commentary, she waved at the television and said, with both great relief and irritation, “¡chau!”
then she flipped the channel, to a story on how there is presently quite limited availability of the “sube” cards used for public transportation here, causing lines of those waiting to receive them to be extremely, extremely long. she pointed to the footage of ridiculously long lines of people snaking throughout a number of different stations where the cards are available, turned to my roommate and me, and said simply: “¡cristina!”
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well, that clears that question up pretty well
