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The Argentine President's Jewish Card
[Economist-UK] Argentina's Jewish community has found a somewhat unlikely ally in Nestor Kirchner, the country's president. The founder of his Peronist party, Juan Peron, blocked Jewish migration to Argentina and gave refuge to scores of Nazi leaders after the Second World War. But Kirchner has gone out of his way to court Argentine Jews. He has created a special commission to re-investigate the AMIA case - the car bombing that killed 85 people at the main Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires. He meets Jewish leaders around five times a year; his wife, Cristina Fernandez, who will succeed him in the presidency after an election on October 28, visited Israel in 2005.