BUENOS AIRES -- President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner far outpolled her rivals on Sunday in Argentina's first national primary, suggesting that she is likely to win re-election easily in the vote on Oct. 23. To avoid a runoff, the winning candidate in October must get at least 45 percent of the vote, or at least 40 percent with a lead of 10...

From Evita Perón onward, the Peronist movement has excelled at using women to try to mobilize its faithful. Gen. Juan Domingo Perón deployed his wife, during her life and after her early death, as his link to the masses, and more recently Carlos Saúl Menem even married a former Miss Universe, supposedly with an eye to reviving his flagging...