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Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley, née Randhawa) is Indian American with no ties whatsoever to Argentina, and Sanford's Argentine GF was Maria Belen Chapur.

'Luv Gov' Sanford spotted with Argentine girlfriend

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/mark-sanford-maria-belen-chapur-relationship-119143

When Rep. Mark Sanford posted a rambling, 2,000-word announcement of his breakup with María Belén Chapur on his Facebook page last September, we thought we’d seen the last of the nutty antics of those two lovebirds—but hold onto your hats because it appears the couple is giving their union one more go. Chapur was spotted hanging out with Sanford and members of his staff at last week’s annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park. Seated near the first base line, a casually dressed Sanford, who generously passed out cans of beer to those around him, was accompanied by Chapur, looking tanned in a sleeveless black top. It was the striking Argentinian brunette’s 2009 affair with the then-married governor of South Carolina that gave whole new meaning to the term “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”

In 2012, the couple were engaged, and in 2013 Sanford revived his political career by being elected to Congress in a special election. But in September 2014, Sanford announced he had broken things off with his mistress-cum-fiancée, citing the stress of his ongoing divorce negotiations with ex-wife Jenny Sanford. In an interview with the New York Times just days after the breakup, Chapur said it was she who ended the relationship after Sanford wouldn’t set a wedding date, indicating she felt like a pawn in Sanford’s political comeback; with the election over, she suggested that he no longer needed a fiancée. Chapur added she didn’t know Sanford was going to spill the beans on Facebook until she learned it from media reports. The two went their separate ways, with Chapur going back to Argentina and Sanford remaining in D.C. and South Carolina.

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