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Montevideo, January 6th 2026 - 02:04 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • Friday, December 26th 2025 - 10:07 UTC

    CFK remains hospitalized with postoperative complication after emergency appendectomy

    The former president spent Christmas Eve at the clinic, and there is no date set for her discharge yet

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner remains hospitalized at the Otamendi Sanatorium in Buenos Aires after developing postoperative ileus, a functional intestinal complication following emergency surgery for appendicitis earlier this week. She had been allowed to leave her house arrest for the procedure.

  • Monday, December 22nd 2025 - 10:12 UTC

    CFK recovering after emergency surgery

    CFK was expected to be discharged early Monday

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is recovering at the Otamendi Sanatorium in Buenos Aires following successful emergency surgery for acute appendicitis. The 72-year-old Peronist leader, who is currently serving a six-year sentence under house arrest, was rushed to the medical facility on Saturday afternoon after experiencing severe abdominal pain.

  • Tuesday, November 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    CFK sends recorded message to feminist annual gathering

    Issues such as censorship, as well as indigenous and land ownership, were also addressed.

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sent a recorded message from her house arrest as the 38th Plurinational Gathering of Women, Travestis, Lesbians, Intersex, and Non-Binaries reached its end in the city of Corrientes on Monday.

  • Friday, November 7th 2025 - 12:15 UTC

    New trial against CFK begins in Buenos Aires

    Given the high number of witnesses and defendants, the court expects the trial to last several years

    The so-called “notebook” trial against former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) kicked off in Buenos Aires on Thursday in a streaming fashion, with the defendant appearing online from her house arrest, where she is already serving another sentence for corruption.

  • Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 09:06 UTC

    Kicillof visits CFK as midterms loom over

    Kicillof is seeking to replicate the strategy that allowed Peronism to defeat Milei's Libertarians in the Buenos Aires province elections

    Axel Kicillof, Governor of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and arguably the main opposition leader following Sept. 7 elections in his district, where he dealt a heavy blow to President Javier Milei's political force, paid a visit Wednesday to Justicialist (Peronist) Party Chairwoman Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    CFK greets supporters on anniversary of murder attempt

    CFK was moved by her supporters' endorsement

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) appeared on the balcony of her apartment in Constitución, Buenos Aires, where she is under house arrest, to greet hundreds of activists, who showed up to express their support on the third anniversary of her Sept. 1, 2022, assassination attempt.

  • Friday, August 8th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Milei sparks controversy by equating Kirchnerism with Argentina's military dictatorship

    Some members the political space led by Milei have even shown support for convicted perpetrators of crimes against humanity

    Argentine President Javier Milei has ignited a new wave of controversy after posing with his candidates beside a banner that read “Kirchnerism Never Again,” mimicking the typography of the historic Nunca Más report, which documented crimes committed during Argentina’s last military dictatorship. The photo, taken in a poor neighborhood of La Matanza—a traditional Peronist stronghold—marks the launch of Milei’s electoral campaign in Buenos Aires province.

  • Monday, August 4th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Ernesto Samper pays CFK a visit at Buenos Aires apartment

    Samper likened CFK's case to Lula's detention, which would have spared Brazil the Bolsonaro years

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) was visited at the apartment where she is under house arrest by former Colombian President Ernesto Samper and former Ecuadorean National Assembly Speaker Gabriela Rivadeneira.

  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    CFK lashes out at Milei: “He governs for the rich”

    CFK insisted she was “on the right side of history”

    In an audio message commemorating the anniversary of Eva Perón's death on Saturday, July 26, former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) heavily criticized President Javier Milei, calling his government a “disaster” that “governs for the rich.”

  • Saturday, June 21st 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    CFK sends crowds away from her home and delivers a recorded message

    Milei's is an “unsustainable model,” CFK argued

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner told her followers Friday in a recorded message from her house arrest in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución that Security Minister Patricia Bullrich was seeking “to provoke chaos” and insisted that Javier Milei's policies could collapse sooner or later.

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