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Former president Néstor Kirchner has been caught with his pants down.

We know him nowadays as a furious defender of the high export tariffs on grains at the root of this ongoing farmers' strike.

But as you can see in this 2002 video, he wasn't always in favour of taxing the land. In this clip he says that as far he's concerned the controversial "retenciones" only serve to "bankroll the bureaucracy in the capital." Of course, at the time he was still campaigning....