Kirchner Says US plots to Oust, Kill Her

Date: 01 October 2014 - 21:43

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RIO DEJANEIRO (Dispatches) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has alleged in an emotional address that the US and a number of local business interest groups are plotting to topple her administration and even assassinate her.
Kirchner said certain Argentine business and banking institutions are conspiring to oust her government by hoarding crops, stockpiling cars among other pressure tactics.
The top Argentine official further insisted that on her recent visit to Argentinian Pope Francis, she was alerted by police of a purported assassination plot against her by ISIL terror elements.
Meanwhile, shortly after the US Embassy in Buenos Aries issued a warning to its citizens residing in Argentina to take additional safety precautions in the South American country, the irritated president underlined that "when you see what has been coming out of diplomatic offices, they had better not come in here and try to sell some tall tale about ISIS trying to track me down so they can kill me."
"So, if something happens to me, don't look to the Mideast, look north" to the United States, she declared at the Government House.
Kirchner also vowed that Buenos Aires would investigate financial institutions operating in the blue-chip currency market that threatens to destabilize the countryصs economy.
"Exporters who have lost money have Argentina in a vise ة so do the car company executives who tell consumers they have no inventory when they do. What they are all waiting for is a devaluation," Kirchner added.
Argentina is engaged in a debt row with a number of US hedge funds. The investors, led by NML, cheaply purchased Argentine government bonds following the country's 2001 default.
However, full repayment of the debt is now demanded by the hedge funds, though Buenos Aires refuses to submit to the demand.
Mainstream media outlets have censored the comments made by the Argentine president at the United Nations General Assembly where she harshly criticized the US international policies.
During her speech before the United Nations 69th General Assembly on September 24, Argentinaصs President Cristina Fern‡ndez de Kirchner covered a variety of issues from economic reforms needed at the International Monetary Fund to the plight of Palestinians and the global fight against terrorism.
The Argentine president questioned countries such as the United States for attacking groups, including the ISIL Takfiri terrorists which Washington previously backed against the Syrian government.
زWhere do ISIS (ISIL) and Al-Qaeda take their guns from? Yesterdayصs freedom fighters are todayصs terrorists,س Cristina Fernandez said, blasting US policies vis-a-vis terrorism.
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's northern territory. The group sent its members into neighboring Iraq in June and seized large parts of land there.
The US and its allies recently launched airstrikes against ISIL terrorists in Iraq and later extended the aerial campaign to Syria.
Fernandez also touched on judicial cooperation with Iran over the issue of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in the capital, Buenos Aires, and the political pressure that has been exerted on Argentina by the US and Israeli lobbies in that regard.
Tehran and Buenos Aires signed a memorandum of understanding on January 27, 2013 to jointly probe the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), which killed 85 people and wounded 300 others.
The Argentine president dismissed the allegations against Iran concerning the 1994 deadly bomb attack, saying the investigations conducted by Buenos Aires proved that Iran was not involved in the bombing.
Under intense political pressure imposed by the US and Israel, Argentina had formally accused Iran of having carried out the bomb attack.
Tehran has denied any involvement in the attacks and denounced accusations against Iranian citizens in connection with the blast as a false flag to screen the real perpetrators behind the bombing.