Roberto Lavagna, architect of Argentina's debt recovery, resigns in cabinet shake-up

wow... big news from down south... i suppose it was to be expected after lavagna spoke before a major business association last week, an association president kirchner had just finished lambasting in the press... their differences had been widely reported but i didn't think, given lavagna's performance in the debt reduction effort, that kirchner would let him go that easily...

Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, the independent economist who played a key role in Argentina’s recovery from recession, exited President Néstor Kirchner’s government yesterday to be replaced by Banco Nación head Felisa Miceli — the first woman to run the country’s economy.

After days of speculation about a deepening rift with Kirchner, Lavagna tendered his resignation after a brief meeting with the President in Government House yesterday. Lavagna was widely considered Argentina’s most powerful and popular politician after Kirchner.

the others...

Nilda Garré, Argentina’s ambassador to Venezuela, will replace senator-elect José Pampuro as defence minister. Garré is a long-time human rights activist with a background of militancy in the Peronist party in the 1970s. Minutes after getting a call from Kirchner offering her the job, Garré got a call from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who congratulated her on the promotion. [...] Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa, meanwhile, will be replaced by his deputy, Jorge Enrique Taiana. [...] The place of Kirchner’s sister, Welfare Minister Alicia Kirchner, will be taken by Juan Carlos Nadalich, currently second-in-command at the PAMI pensioners’ health institute. Alicia Kirchner won a senatorial seat in the President’s native province, Santa Cruz.

if you are counting, that's two new women cabinet ministers...

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