Fiery Argentine leader guided by husband's legacy  April 17,
2012|Helen Popper and Karina Grazina | Reuters (STRINGER
Argentina Reuters, REUTERS)  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine
President Cristina Fernandez is a sharp-tongued widow bent on
honoring her late husband's political legacy by boosting state
control over the economy - even if that means making enemies
along the way.  Defying warnings from Spain and the European
Union, the center-left leader unveiled a plan on Monday to take
control of energy company YPF from Spain's Repsol.  Argentina
already has a reputation as a global rule-breaker after staging
the biggest sovereign debt default in history in 2002. It has
ignored demands for compensation by creditors and private
investors ever since.  But Fernandez, 59, has her own reasons
for flouting international conventions, dating back to her days
as a student activist in the turbulent years leading up to the
"Dirty War" 1976-1983 dictatorship.  It was at that time that
she met gawky Nestor Kirchner, a c