Celia Szusterman is principal lecturer in Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Westminster and an associate fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London 

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The defeat of the powerful Kirchner couple in the mid-term elections is also a story of the degradation of Argentina’s political institutions as a new form of “democracy” takes hold, says Celia Szusterman.

The generation of civilian rule in Argentina that has followed the end of a brutal military dictatorship in 1983 is a great achievement. But these twenty-five years of democracy offer their own lessons about the flaws in the country's dominant style of governance, argues Celia Szusterman.

The dispute between two Latin American neighbours over the construction of two paper-mills beside the river separating them is at once local, bilateral, regional and global. Celia Szusterman tracks a kaleidoscopic story and finds a crisis of governance at its heart.

The power-couple's presidential-transfer plan has worked to perfection. But a close reading of the election results casts a shadow on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's triumph, says Celia Szusterman.

The "first lady" of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, is preparing to launch a campaign to succeed her husband Nèstor as president. This is less a story of Evita Perón or Hillary Clinton than a political fix by illiberal architects of a failed model of governance, says Celia Szusterman.