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Montevideo, June 18th 2026 - 19:21 UTC

Tag: Maximo Kirchner

  • Wednesday, June 10th 2026 - 14:51 UTC

    Argentina: A year after Kirchner's final conviction, a possible pardon splits Peronism before 2027

    Part of Peronism considers a pardon for the leader who has most polarized Argentine society over the past two decades could mobilize anti-Kirchnerist voters

    A year has passed since Argentina's Supreme Court made final the corruption conviction against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner —six years in prison and a lifetime political ban— and the possibility of pardoning her if Peronism returns to power is dividing the movement, as it searches for a candidate for the late-2027 presidential elections. Kirchner is under house arrest in a Buenos Aires apartment, in the Constitución neighborhood, where her supporters will again gather on Wednesday to demand her release.

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  • Friday, May 29th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

    Argentine justice advances on 111 assets of the Kirchners and Lázaro Báez in Vialidad case

    Following the Cassation ruling, all that remains for Cristina Kirchner and her children is to file a direct complaint before the Supreme Court

    The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber of Argentina on Thursday rejected the extraordinary appeals filed by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her children Máximo and Florencia, and businessman Lázaro Báez against the confiscation of 111 assets ordered as part of the Vialidad case. The decision, adopted by the court's Chamber IV, virtually closes the path to the country's highest tribunal and clears the execution of the asset-related measures associated with the conviction for fraudulent administration imposed on the former president in December 2022 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in June 2025.

  • Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 23:39 UTC

    Assets from CFK and Lázaro Báez seized

    In the court's view, these properties, such as Los Sauces (photo), were the “proceeds or profits” of the criminal scheme carried out between May 2003 and December 2015

    The Federal Oral Court # 2 (TOF 2) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has ordered the seizure of real estate and funds valued at an updated total of US$684,990,350,139.86 in the ongoing case concerning fraudulent administration against the State's Motorroads Bureau (Vialidad).

  • 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.

  • Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 21:43 UTC

    Argentina's presidential elections: CFK did not say it, but she showed it

    From left to right: CFK, Máximo Kirchner, Wado De Pedro and Sergio Massa. The message was there; not so much in the Vice President's speech.

    By Mordechai Taji

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) did not announce on Thursday anyone's candidacy - hers or not - for this year's elections. She did not do it with her voice. But by her side were her son, Deputy Máximo Kirchner, Interior Minister Wado De Pedro, and Economy Minister Sergio Massa. It was a visual message: two of those three will most likely be on one of the tickets to be presented in the primary, mandatory, simultaneous, and open elections (PASO). She also confirmed that she would not run and frustrated the hopes of some unconditional faithful, who expected her to change her mind.

  • Saturday, April 22nd 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Ruling coalition welcomes President Fernández's announcement

    For Máximo Kirchner's La Cámpora, the President's message was long overdue

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández's announcement that he would not seek reelection was welcomed within the ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) coalition, which now has the opportunity to submit several candidacies to be decided upon at the Aug. 13 Open, Mandatory and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections.

  • Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

    “Macri is the enemy,” Máximo Kirchner tells Peronist convention

    Macri may be the enemy but leaders within the FdT do not seem to have many friends, after the Vice-President's son's speech

    Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner said during a Justicialist Party (PJ) Convention in Mar del Plata that “the adversary of the Argentine society, and not only of Peronism, is former president [Mauricio] Macri.”

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

    CFK's son says former President not likely to run for Casa Rosada in 2023

    “I believe that Cristina will not be a candidate,” Máximo Kirchner said

    Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner Monday said that his mother, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is not likely to run for president in the 2023 elections.

  • Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

    CFK and her son praise Memory Day rally demonstrators

    “Today the Argentine people filled the Plaza de Mayo again,” CFK posted on Twitter

    Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Thursday sent a message through social media to the groups who marched onto Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo during the Memory Day commemorations of those fallen under the military dictatorship which came to power March 24, 1976.

  • Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 20:49 UTC

    IMF concerned over future of Argentine deal due to political turmoil

    An agreement with the Fund is not something to celebrate, Chodos acknowledged

    Argentina's representative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sergio Chodos Wednesday said in a radio interview the multinational body was concerned after Deputy Máximo Kirchner's resignation as majority leader, which might jeopardize the Congressional approval of the preliminary understanding reached last week.

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