Néstor Kirchner's in a defiant mood today: "They're coming to attack me, I know," he told journalists in Alberdi, "but I won't renounce the search for Justice and the Truth!"

 

["Set honour in one eye and death i' the other

   And I will look on both indifferently."]

 

The reason for the Argentinian president's sudden sense of invulnerability is not hard to find: yesterday Marcela Acuña (the thinking man's Minerva) presented him with the gloves she used to clobber the hapless Jazmín Rivas with last month in Mendoza.

 

I expect Julius Caesar's looking down from heaven, or Mount Olympus, or wherever it is you go after bestriding the narrow world like a Colossus, and thinking: "Now that's something I  could have used!"

 

[Sources: Ring de Ideas; 26 Noticias; er… Shakespeare?]