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Argentina Election to Deepen South America's Fragmentation

Associated Press

   RIO DE JANEIRO - A center-leftist's victory in Argentine presidential
   elections is set to cement a rift between South America's largest
   nations, and suggests regional turbulence could extend for years.

   Alberto Fernandez and his far-right Brazilian counterpart Jair
   Bolsonaro have antagonized each another since August, and their
   statements since Sunday's vote signal that neither plans to relent.

   In his victory speech, Fernandez declared that Brazil's leftist former
   President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -- Bolsonaro's nemesis -- is
   unjustly imprisoned and demanded his freedom.

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