Cristina Fernández travels to the South of the country to celebrate new year before being operated

The President of argentina, Cristina Fernández, traveled yesterday to the locality Patagonian Calafate to celebrate with his family the new year, before the next Wednesday at a surgery in which will remove you a cancerous growth in the thyroid.

The President departed aboard the presidential plane from the Buenos Aires Aeroparque bound for the southern of Calafate town, to which defined more than once as his "place in the world", said a Government statement.

Fernández happen parties in Calafate, in the province of Santa Cruz, with their children, maximum and Florence, family and friends, and will return next Monday to Buenos Aires, where on Wednesday will operate a tumor in the gland thyroid.

The head of State, who Al Wednesday begin a medical license in 20 days, shall be submitted to the intervention in the southern Hospital of Buenos Aires City of Pilar, where an estimated that u000aIt will remain for about 72 hours, he added the statement.

Fernandez went to Calafate after holding this Thursday an intense agenda with several meetings with officials, two of them with the Vice-President, Amado Boudou, who will be in charge of the Executive branch since January 4 and until the 24th of that month, when the President rejoin to its functions.

Local media indicate that Fernández decided to spend new year in Calafate rather than in Rio Gallegos, capital of Santa Cruz, following the clashes on Thursday in this last district between the police and State workers, with a toll of at least 21 injured people.

Unrest triggered by the refusal of the workers to the treatment of a number of laws in the legislature, which decided to suspend the meeting when he was about to discuss social security reform and an economic emergency package promoted by the Government of Santa Cruz.

The u000adoctors agree that Cristina Fernández, 58, will be able to fully recover and lead a normal life after the operation.

El surgeon Peter sack, who will be in charge of the surgery, said that it is "an honour" to be able to meet the President of the country and said that it will apply the "procedure normal, Al all cases".

The specialist, considered an eminence in Argentina, acknowledged that he held a meeting with the President, although she declined to reveal why was chosen for such an important mission.

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