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Montevideo, December 13th 2025 - 02:09 UTC

Tag: Cristina Fernandez

  • 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.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    CFK's conviction saga includes attack on TV station and marketing boom

    Opportunity snatchers from both ends of the political spectrum launched T-shirts and other items defending either the former president or the judiciary's ruling mandating her imprisonment

    Following Argentine Supreme Court's (CSJN) ruling Tuesday upholding a six-year prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in addition to a lifetime disenfranchisement in the so-called Vialidad case, a group of her supporters stormed into the Canal 13 and Todo Noticias (TN) building in Buenos Aires, breaking glasses, smashing cars, and throwing stones and blunt objects.

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

    Incarceration is a “dignity certificate,” CFK claims

    “I will be in jail, but the people will be worse every day,” CFK warned

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said her likely imprisonment, to be probably ruled upon Tuesday by the Supreme Court (CSJN), was a “certificate of dignity,” contrasting her situation with those accused of corruption during the Macrismo government, who -she claimed- faced no consequences.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    CFK confirms provincial legislature candidacy

    “You have to go to the place where you are most useful,” CFK insisted

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) announced Monday that she would be running for the Buenos Aires Provincial Legislature's Lower House in the Sept. 7 elections, representing La Matanza and other areas on the southern outskirts of the country's capital.

  • Thursday, May 8th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Argentine Senate gives thumbs down to Clean Record bill

    Di Tullio claimed the bill had CFK's name on it

    Argentina's Senate rejected the “Clean Record” bill barring individuals convicted on appeal of serious crimes from running for public office, with 36 votes in favor and 35 against, falling one vote short of the required 37 for approval.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

    CFK posts another “Che Milei” diatribe on X

    It is the Argentine people who will pay the price for your decisions, your arrogance, and your surrender, CFK told Milei in her posting on X

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Saturday published on X another issue of her “Che Milei” saga criticizing the incumbent head of State for his arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other credit agencies, foreseeing negative consequences for the country.

  • 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.