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Montevideo, July 26th 2025 - 13:50 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK)

  • Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 19:49 UTC

    Lamelas causes uproar in Buenos Aires

    Trump's pick for the US Embassy in Buenos Aires made quite an impression among Argentine opposition leaders

    After his speech Tuesday before the US Senate, Peter Lamelas, Donald Trump's nominee for US ambassador to Argentina, has sparked widespread condemnation from Argentine governors, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), and the Chinese Embassy in Buenos Aires.

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  • Thursday, July 3rd 2025 - 22:19 UTC

    Lula visits CFK at her Buenos Aires apartment

    Lula stayed less than an hour at the residence in Buenos Aires' Constitución neighborhood

    Following his participation at the South American Common Market (Mercosur) Summit at the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a visit to former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) at the apartment in the Coonstitución neighborhood where she is serving a six-year prison sentence for overpriced public works contracts and bid rigging, under the house arrest modality.

  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 19:59 UTC

    Court allows CFK to receive Lula's visit

    The exact time of Lula's visit to CFK is yet to be confirmed

    Buenos Aires Judge Jorge Gorini Wednesday acquiesced to a request from former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's (CFK) legal team and authorized former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to visit her Thursday at the apartment where she is serving a six-year sentence for corruption under house arrest.

  • Monday, June 30th 2025 - 18:50 UTC

    Prosecutors want CFK transferred from house arrest to prison

    The prosecution highlighted the negative social impact of the convicted CFK in the Buenos Aires City apartment

    Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola, who got former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) sentenced to six years in jail for corruption in the so-called Vialidad Case, on Monday filed for her to be stripped of her house arrest privileges and be sent to an ordinary correctional facility.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 19:34 UTC

    CFK claims Milei's model is on the brink of collapse

    Half of Argentines are falling into debt just to eat, CFK argued from her house arrest

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said in an audio recording from her house arrest played during the bank workers' La Bancaria union’s National Congress that President Javier Milei’s economic model was “unsustainable” and “on the verge of collapse.”

  • Wednesday, June 18th 2025 - 21:40 UTC

    CFK supporters pack Plaza de Mayo after house imprisonment

    “They can lock me up, but not all the Argentine people,” CFK insisted in a recorded audio message played to the crowd

    Crowds supporting former Argentine President Cristina Frnández de Kirchner (CFK) marched Wednesday onto Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo following their leader's six-year house arrest conviction in the so-called Vialidad scandal. The demonstration was organized by the Justicialist (Peronist) Party (PJ), social organizations, and unions, with replications across several provinces.

  • Tuesday, June 17th 2025 - 22:45 UTC

    CFK granted house arrest, albeit with tracking anklet

    CFK will have to wear a tracking anklet for the next six years and request a court authorization to leave her residence, except in cases of force majeure, and abstain from waving from the balcony

    Buenos Aires Federal Court #2 Justices Jorge Gorini and Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu, plus Federal Judge Andrés Fabián Basso Tuesday granted former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) the possibility of serving her 6-year prison sentence for her involvement in the so-called Vialidad corruption scandal under a house arrest regime, given that she is over 70 years of age and therefore eligible for the measure.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

    CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

    CFK is likely to be granted house arrest given her age

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) unanimously upheld a six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement from public office for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the Vialidad case, which involved irregularities in awarding 51 public road works contracts in Santa Cruz to businessman Lázaro Báez.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 19:35 UTC

    CFK followers planning response in case former president's conviction is upheld

    The CSJN is expected to uphold CFK's conviction Tuesday, thus exhausting the chain of appeals, which would result in her detention

    Followers of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) were planning a response at the Instituto Patria (IP) headquarters in Buenos Aires, should the Supreme Court uphold the six-year prison sentence against their leader, thus exhausting the chain of appeals, which would lead to her arrest, even though she could later apply for a home detention regime for which she would be eligible for being aged over 70.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 12:33 UTC

    CFK's would-be assassin convicted in child pornography case

    Sabag Montiel tried to shoot CFK on Sept. 1, 2022, but his pistol jammed

    Fernando Sabag Montiel, the main suspect in the assassination attempt against then Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in September 2022, Tuesday clinched a plea deal with the prosecution in an unrelated child pornopraphy case for which he was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in jail.

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