Tag: Fabiola Yáñez

• Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  Alberto Fernández to stand trial for gender violence against former First Lady

  

  Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández (2019–2023) has been indicted by a Buenos Aires Federal Court of Appeals and will therefore face trial for gender-based violence against his former partner and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2025 - 09:57 UTC

  Alberto Fernández arraigned for gender violence against former companion

  

  Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández was arraigned Monday for alleged gender violence against his ex-partner, Fabiola Yáñez, to whom he reportedly caused minor and serious injuries, in addition to coercive threats.

• Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina: Pictures of beaten Fabiola Yáñez released

  

  Photographs of former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez with bruises allegedly due to beatings she received from then-President Alberto Fernández were released Thursday by local media. In addition, video footage of TV celebrity Tamara Pettinato sipping beer in the presidential office at Casa Rosada also went public. Although his face is not seen, the voice speaking with Pettinato in an intimate tone resembles that of Fernández.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 08:08 UTC

  Former First Lady files criminal complaint against Alberto Fernández

  

  Former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against her then-common-law spouse and head of state Alberto Fernández for exerting “gender violence” against her. The case ended up in the court of Federal Judge Julián Ercolini, who banned Fernández from leaving the country, coming anywhere near the mother of his son Francisco, or even contacting her on the telephone.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Influencer's conviction for meddling with Argentine First Lady upheld

  

  Argentine influencer Eduardo Miguel Prestofelippo's sentence to 30 days' house arrest for harassing First Lady Fabiola Yáñez has been upheld Monday. As a result of the measure, the convicted felon is to wear an ankle device for the duration of his sentence.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 22:55 UTC

  Argentine President becomes a father for the second time

  

  Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez Monday gave birth to her son Francisco Fernández Yáñez, the first of the presidential couple. The baby was reported to be okay after a C-section was performed during the delivery at Buenos Aires' Otamendi Sanatorium.

• Friday, September 24th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine First Lady 10 weeks pregnant

  

  Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez is 10 weeks pregnant, the Presidential medical unit in Buenos Aires announced Thursday. The baby is due in April next year.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine President indicted for skipping lockdown, pleas to buy his way out of trial

  

  A federal prosecutor indicted Argentine President Alberto Fernández for violating the sanitary restrictions he had himself decreed, after evidence surfaced of a large gathering at the Olivos Residence in July 2020 to celebrate the First Lady's birthday while the rest of the country was placed under quarantine.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine President says breach of quarantine was the First Lady's fault

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday laid the blame on the First Lady for the family gathering picture leaked in the past few days and which proved a violation to the quarantine he himself had decreed.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Opposition lawmakers to seek impeachment of Argentine President for violating quarantine he had decreed

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers Thursday announced they would be seeking the impeachment of President Alberto Fernández after the image of him holding a party in violation of his own urgency emergency decree (DNU) capping attendants and mandating distancing protocols became public knowledge.