For anyone despairing of finding an escape route for Argentina's gathering economic and political crises, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has a strategy: talk.
After weeks of radio silence, many of them spent in Patagonia, she returned to the spotlight Sunday to deliver a thumping state of the union speech to congress. Three hours and 39 minutes later -- more than double the run-time of the 2011 edition and nearly three times that of her inaugural speech of 2008 -- she covered every talking point on the River Plate, leaving no foe unstoned.
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