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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 14:38 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • 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.

  • Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    CFK may show up at balcony, court says

    The former President needs to make sure not to alter the neighborhood's normal life

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), under house arrest for a conviction in the Vialidad corruption case, has been fitted with an electronic anklet to monitor her location, as ordered by Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 2 (TOF 2)

  • Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

    Lula and Maduro stand behind the home-incarcerated CFK

    Lula will visit CFK next month during the Mercosur Summit, Pimenta explained

    Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil Wednesday expressed their solidarity with former Argentine head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after her sentence to six years under house arrest for corruption in the so-called Vialidad scandal was upheld earlier this week.

  • Tuesday, June 17th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Decisive hours for Cristina Kirchner: Argentina awaits judicial decision amid mounting tension

    Cristina Fernández, who is 72, has requested house arrest citing her age, security risks, and past assassination attempts. Photo: REUTERS/Pedro Lazaro Fernandez

    Argentina faces a moment of heightened political tension as the country awaits a final decision from the Federal Oral Tribunal No. 2 (TOF2) on whether former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be detained following the Supreme Court’s recent confirmation of her corruption conviction and lifetime ban from public office.

  • Thursday, June 12th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    South America's leftwing leaders support CFK after court ruling

    Lula and Petro called CFK to express their solidarity

    Most of South America's leftwing leaders expressed their solidarity with former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), whose 6-year prison sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court (CSJN) earlier this week.

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