For the ultra-loyalists of ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling confirming her prison sentence and lifelong ban from public office was brutal lawfare whereas for her many detractors it was pure justice. But upon closer scrutiny it is neither one nor the other.
The big picture remains broadly positive as a supreme assertion of equality before the law when a former two-term president who still remains the darling of at least 15 million Argentines ends up in at least some form of jail – impossible not to celebrate decades of impunity for corruption within a sluggish judicial system being ended in such striking fashion.
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