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December 16, 2007 (LPAC)--The Argentine government continues to respond sharply to U.S. Justice Dept. charges that $800,000 smuggled into the country last August was intended for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Presidential campaign. The businessman who carried the suitcase into the country, Alejandro Antonini Wilson, holds both Venezuelan and U.S. citizenship, and remains in the United States despite Argentine requests for his extradition.

On Dec. 15, Chief of Staff Alberto Fernandez debunked U.S. assertions that the Justice Department acts independently of the Executive, charging the "Republican Administration of the United States" with deliberately setting this up. He also asserted that this entire operation was likely intended to create a crisis in relations between Venezuela and the U.S., "by making the international community believe that the Venezuelan government was illegally contributing to the government's Presidential campaign."

Sources close to President Fernandez and her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, told the daily La Nacion that the couple feels that Washington in pressuring her "to negotiate specifically on the issue of [Argentina's relationship with] Venezuela." Venezuelan President Chavez was one of the early backers of the newly-founded Bank of the South, and has offered Argentina generous financial assistance when other foreign lenders boycotted the country.

The correctness of the Kirchners' assumption is seen in the London Economist's Dec. 13 article, describing the Bank of the South as entirely a product of Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution," which, it predicts, will almost certainly fail for lack of agreement among the members. In referencing the fight over what the bank will be, the {Economist} doesn't mention what it fears--that the conception of the bank outlined by Lyndon LaRouche and the forces associated with him will prevail over Chavez's Jacobin notion.

On Dec. 13, Cristina Kirchner blasted the U.S.'s statements on the $800,000 as "garbage foreign relations," put out at a moment when Ibero-American nations are working "firmly, with conviction and decisiveness," to reverse a past history that "was lethal for the nations of Latin America." She vowed to continue "working strongly for the building and implementation of the Bank of the South, that will provide us with financial tools different from those that have only caused pain and social tragedy in Latin America."