Argentina: Surgery for President

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President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will undergo surgery on Tuesday to drain an accumulation of blood near her brain resulting from a recent head injury, her doctors said Monday. The doctors, Facundo Manes and Gerardo Bozovich of Fundación Favaloro, a private hospital in Buenos Aires, said they opted for the surgery after Mrs. Kirchner was found on Sunday to have a tingling sensation and a slight loss of muscular strength in her left arm. Mrs. Kirchner’s spokesman had revealed Saturday that she had sustained a previously undisclosed “skull trauma” in August, and that doctors had told her to rest for 30 days as a result of the injury, which involves chronic bleeding between the surface of her brain and her skull.