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It is unfortunate for me to say this, as women happen to be a great majority in the people I befriend and respect, but Latin America has an unfortunate tendency of having had a marred history of female rulers.

In Panama, the very idea of electing a female president after Mireya Moscoso's election has now become practically extinct. In South and Central America, most, if not all female presidents were overthrown, deposed, or forced into resignation. The only country in Latin America to have elected a female president and held onto her was Nicaragua, and her shining moment was dealing with the military after concluding a truce that ended a ten-year war.

So why not women? Well, the problem with most of the female presidents we have seen is that they are, for the most part, extremely militant for the few issues that truly matter to them, and fail to see that while they -are- in power, they first have to run many of their decisions through -men-. What happens then? Well, most of the president's decrees that need Parliamentary consent get voided, and the few that don't irritate the hard-liner population that believe in democratic process.

Even more problematic for Fernandez is the problem that their last female president, Isabel Pern, was overthrown by the military, with absolutely no violent repercussions. So, given that, would you truly believe that Fernandez has a chance of running, never mind -winning-?

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