Argentina's new president, Alberto Fernandez, made a conciliatory inauguration speech, in which he called for national unity and promised to defend democracy and human rights. But there were several troubling signs suggesting that his government may go in the opposite direction.
First, Fernandez was upstaged at his own inauguration by leftist populist Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner the nation's former president — and current vice president.
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