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Byline: TONY LEON
Argentina at a new crossroad as 'first man' dies ON WEDNESDAY, the bustling, sprawling metropolis of Buenos Aires was a ghost town. Normally teeming streets and chaotic traffic jams had thinned out to resemble Bloemfontein on a Sunday afternoon. It was Census Day, the once-a-decade Argentinian national holiday, when all 40-million citizens must be at home to await the national head count.
Thousands of kilometres down south, in El Calafate in the Patagonian Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina's first couple, President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner and Nestor Kirchner were at their family home awaiting enumeration. The South African embassy in Buenos …