Argentine President Cristina Kirchner suffered a double blow, losing her Senate majority and seeing her choice to head the central bank rejected by a key committee. Senators switched allegiance and voted to put anti-government lawmakers at the heads of 13 of the Senate's 25 committees, giving them effective control of both houses of Congress for the first time since ...

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's government on Wednesday lost its ruling majority in the Senate, weeks after it lost its majority in the lower house. After a bloc of parties that had supported the government switched allegiance, the opposition gained overriding leverage in the Congress for the first time in seven years. The compounded bad news for Kirchner stems from ...