URUGUAY?S president has started an Argy-bargy ? by branding his Argentinian counterpart an ?old hag?.
Argentina has made a formal protest over Jose Mujica?s remark about Cristina Kirchner, 60.
Famously candid Mr Mujica did not know his microphone was on when he spoke about Ms Kirchner ? who has led recent sabre-rattling against Britain over the Falklands.
He was heard telling a colleague before a press conference: ?That old hag?s worse than the cross-eyed one.?
The remark referred to Ms Kirchner?s late husband and former Argentinian president Nestor Kirchner.
Tension ... Nestor Kirchner and Jose Mujica, right
Mr Mujica, 77, said: ?Cross-eyes was more of a politician, she?s just stubborn.? He then went on to mock Ms Kirchner?s visit to Rome last month, when she presented Pope Francis, who is from Argentina, with a flask to drink traditional ?mate? tea.
He said: ?She actually went to the Pope, who has lived 77 years, to explain what is tea and what is a thermal flask!?
Buenos Aires has made an official complaint to the Uruguayan government.
Foreign minister Hector Timerman called the comments ?outrageous?. There is a history of bad blood between the two South American countries. In 2007 Nestor Kirchner accused Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez of ?stabbing Argentina in the back? after he re-started operations at a border pulp mill that Argentina had blockaded.
And in 2002 Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle Ibanez accused Argentinians of being ?a bunch of thieves?.
b.perrin@the-sun.co.uk
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