GUARDIAN.UK/ OPINION/ SIMON TISDALE/ President Cristina Kirchner's Falklands sabre-rattling serves a political purpose. Kirchner is under all kinds of pressures--rapid inflation, striking farmers, her beef-eating citizens, foreign investors worried about debt payments, the weakest peso in 8 YEARS, corruption charges--all with an election approaching. How about a nice "noisy, passionate spat with frigid, faraway Britain" -- to stir-up nationalism?
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