Plainspoken and passionate, Elisa Carrió has emerged as one of the few fresh faces on the creaky Argentinean political scene. As the head of a 17-month-old party called Alternativa por una República de Iguales, or ARI, the 46-year-old constitutional lawyer and presidential aspirant has been causing sparks of late by railing against Citibank, Congress, former Argentinean president Carlos Menem and the various and sundry "mafias" that are intent, she insists, on exploiting her country.