You may have heard that Argentina is in the grip of an all-consuming political affair that sounds more like something out of a paperback thriller than real life. Let's wind back. An Argentine special prosecutor named Alberto Nisman had claimed that he had evidence that the country's government — including President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman — had covered up evidence related to the 1994 Jewish Community Center bombing which killed 85 and injured hundreds.