ARGENTINA'S NEW PRESIDENT STARTS ON THE WRONG FOOT

Argentina's new president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, started her first week in office on the wrong foot: She needlessly moved closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and away from the United States. Fernández's knee-jerk reaction to a Miami court's indictment alleging that Venezuela contributed money to Argentina's 2007 presidential elections was a textbook case of political inexperience, bad advice, greater-than-expected ties to Venezuela's petro-populist government or all of the above. Read the full text here, and let us know what you think.;