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Montevideo, April 2nd 2025 - 12:31 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2025 - 09:36 UTC

    Significantly corrupt CFK banned from entering US

    The sanctions also apply to former Planning Minister Julio de Vido, current Congressman Máximo Kirchner, and his sister Florencia Kirchner

    The United States declared former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK, 2007-2015), her children Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, and former Planning Minister Julio de Vido significantly corrupt, banning them from entering the country, among other measures, for their involvement in significant corruption during CFK's back-to-back four-year terms.

  • Monday, March 10th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    CFK lambasts Milei for deal with IMF

    The devaluation of the Argentine peso will be before or after the October mid-term elections, CFK wondered

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) was heavily critical of the incumbent Javier Milei's intentions to borrow from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep inflation at bay. She argued that Milei's reliance on the Austrian School of economics has led the Libertarian administration to the current situation and that the solutions intended were harmful to Argentina's interests.

  • Saturday, February 22nd 2025 - 10:18 UTC

    CFK meets with Pepe Mujica and his wife “in farewell tone”

    CFK, Mujica, and Topolansky recognized themselves as “militants until the last day”

    Former Presidents of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Uruguay José Pepe Mujica met Friday at the latter's estate outside Montevideo in an encounter that made headlines for two reasons: First, because of what two progressive leaders getting together represents, with Mujica's wife and former Uruguayan Vice President Lucía Topolansky taking part. It was CFK's first visit to Mujica's farm.

  • Friday, February 14th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    CFK appeals her conviction for corruption

    While CFK seeks her acquittal, the prosecution would like her 6-year sentence doubled

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Thursday filed an appeal to have her six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement overturned. On the other side, the prosecution requested her sentence be upped to 12 years, citing illicit association in the “Vialidad” scandal regarding road works in the province of Santa Cruz.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina: Lower House gives thumbs down to open primaries

    The PASO elections were created in 2009 under CFK and held for the first time in 2011

    Argentina's Lower House approved this week by 162 votes in favor, 55 against, and 28 abstentions, the elimination of the so-called Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) Elections whereby the country's constituencies chose each party's candidates. The measure proposed by the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of President Javier Milei now needs to be passed by the Senate before it can be implemented in this year's mid-terms.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't pledges to find those responsible for Prosecutor Nisman's murder

    Nisman wound up dead with a bullet in his head just hours before coming forward in Congress with his findings about the 1994 AMIA bombing

    Argentine President Javier Milei said that Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered “at the hands of the darkest powers” in the country. Nisman was found dead on Jan. 18, 2015, in his apartment with a bullet in his head just hours before appearing before a Congressional committee to explain his findings regarding the so-called Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

  • Saturday, January 11th 2025 - 09:27 UTC

    Milei calls for extraordinary parliamentary sessions

    Some of the measures to be discussed clearly seek to prevent Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from running

    Argentine President Javier Milei Friday signed the decree summoning Congress to extraordinary sessions between Jan. 20 and Feb. 21 to debate the suppression of the Mandatory, Open, and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections, the clean record requirement for candidates, and other initiatives that, according to the Executive, cannot wait until the new Legislature starting on March 1.

  • Friday, December 6th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentine Supreme Court says CFK must stand trial for AMIA bombing cover-up

    CFK is believed to have covered up for the Iranian suspects in the AMIA bombing

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) ruled Thursday that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and others should stand trial for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran, thus upholding a previous decision by a Federal Court of Appeals.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    CFK chosen Peronist Party Chairwoman

    Quintela will not challenge the outcome so that the Peronist Party is a united force for the times to come

    The Justicialist (Peronist) Party's (PJ) Electoral Board Tuesday confirmed former two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) as the new party chairwoman after no other contender challenged her “Primero La Patria” list following the dismissal of La Rioja Governor Ricardo Quintela's bid for allegedly lacking the necessary endorsements. CFK won by 13 votes to 1.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Peronist Party in search of a new (or old) leader

    Quintela or CFK? Who will guide Peronism's attempt at regaining power in Argentina?

    After former President Alberto Fernández was forced to resign as chairman of the Peronist Party given the domestic violence and corruption scandals in which he is involved, the vacancy opened up a new front that may well decide the future of Argentine politics in the years to come. While former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner intends to fill the void, La Rioja Governor Ricardo Quintela came forward as a new option.

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