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Here is another great article from Yahoo news;

 

Leader Rushes to Explain Slur

Tue Jun 4, 8:58 AM ET

 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Uruguay's president will fly to Buenos Aires in a frantic effort to patch up usually cordial relations with Argentina after calling the South American neighbor's politicians a "band of thieves."

 

 

An Argentine government spokesman said President Jorge Batlle's trip on Tuesday is to "clarify" his comments in a television interview aired on Monday, where he also said Argentina's president had no idea how to save the nation from economic crisis.

 

"The Argentine situation is an Argentine problem: a band of thieves from top to bottom," Batlle told Bloomberg Television during an outburst in which he shouted at the interviewer complaining Uruguay should not be compared to Argentina.

 

Duhalde, Argentina's fifth president since December charged with staving off a meltdown in Latin America's No. 3 economy, summoned Uruguay's ambassador over the interview, Argentine government sources said.

 

Battle quickly called a news conference on Monday after the broadcast and said his statements had were private comments that had been "off-the-record."

 

He also telephoned President Eduardo Duhalde and, according to Argentine government sources, apologized. The affront dominated Argentina's evening news.

 

"We have a brotherly relationship with Uruguay," Argentine presidential spokesman Eduardo Amadeo told local television. "I think the most intelligent thing we can do ... is to draw a line under this incident with the apologies we have received and are going to receive."

 

A presidential spokesman for Batlle aid the Uruguayan government was studying taking legal action against Bloomberg over the publication of the comments.

 

"We believe it broke the law. The subject is now in the hands of the lawyers," the spokesman told Reuters in Montevideo.

 

Problems in Argentina, where a recession led thousands of deposit holders to attack banks and politicians to demand the government end a freeze on savings, have spilled over into tiny Uruguay, sparking a run on banks there.

 

While Batlle's criticism was an extraordinary break with diplomatic protocol, polls show Argentines agree with him. Argentine lawmakers cannot walk in public without being hounded by mobs who blame politicians of every hue for the crisis.

 

Polls show most Argentines also believe Duhalde is ineffective and want him to resign.

 

Argentina and Uruguay have a history of friendly relations. Their capitals, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, are a boat ride apart across the River Plate and Uruguay is a favorite beach destination and bank haven for rich Argentines.

 

But Argentina's chaotic four-year recession has damaged Uruguay's previous reputation as an oasis of financial stability in South America, forcing Montevideo to request fresh aid from the IMF (news - web sites) to help shield its economy.

 

Well done President Jorge Batlle! Insult a suffering country!

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Originally posted by Kyle d'Tana

i would say, dss version is really right. If a man see, that another can hurt him or make harm, they hate each other...:( :(

 

thanx, and its true...

like yoda:

 

Fear, is to anger, anger is to hate, hate is to suffering

and im not kidding, its a wise phrase

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