85 Facts About Cristina Kirchner

Cristina Kirchner served as the 54th president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and the first lady during the tenure of her husband, Nestor Kirchner.

Cristina Kirchner was the second female president of Argentina and the first elected female president of Argentina.

Cristina Kirchner was elected national senator in 1995, and had a controversial tenure, while her husband was elected governor of Santa Cruz Province.

Cristina Kirchner was the First Lady from 2003 to 2007 after her husband was elected president.

Cristina Kirchner continued her husband's human rights policies, and had a rocky relationship with the press.

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Nestor Cristina Kirchner died in 2010, and she was re-elected for a second term in 2011.

Cristina Kirchner established currency controls during her second term, and the country fell into sovereign default in 2014.

Cristina Kirchner was charged for fraudulent low price sales of dollar futures, and later acquitted.

In 2017, an arrest warrant issued by Claudio Bonadio for Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner charged her with "treason", but due to her parliamentary immunity, she did not go to prison, and the treason accusation was later dropped, while other charges related to Nisman's accusation remained.

On 30 September 2020, the federal criminal cassation court confirmed the corruption trials of Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner, ruling the former president's objections to be inadmissible.

Cristina Kirchner Fernandez was born on 19 February 1953 at Tolosa, a suburb of La Plata, capital of the Buenos Aires Province.

Cristina Kirchner is the daughter of Eduardo Fernandez and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm.

Cristina Kirchner attended high school at Popular Mercantil and Misericordia schools.

Cristina Kirchner began her college studies at the National University of La Plata.

Cristina Kirchner studied psychology for a year, then dropped it and studied law instead.

Cristina Kirchner became influenced by Peronism, left-wing politics, and anti-imperialism.

Cristina Kirchner proposed to move to Rio Gallegos, Nestor's home city, but he delayed their departure until his graduation on 3 July 1976.

Cristina Kirchner had not yet graduated when they moved to Rio Gallegos and completed the remaining subjects with distance education.

Cristina Kirchner registered at the Tribunal Superior de Justicia of Santa Cruz in 1980, the Comodoro Rivadavia's chamber of appeals in 1985 and worked as an attorney for the Justicialist Party in 1983.

Cristina Kirchner was elected deputy for the provincial legislature of Santa Cruz in 1989.

Cristina Kirchner served as interim governor of Santa Cruz for a couple of days, after the impeachment of Ricardo del Val in 1990.

Cristina Kirchner organized Nestor's political campaign when he was elected governor of Santa Cruz in 1991.

Cristina Kirchner was elected national senator in the 1995 general elections.

Cristina Kirchner opposed some bills proposed by Menem, such as a treaty with Chilean president Patricio Aylwin that benefited Chile in a dispute over the Argentina–Chile border.

The Minister of Defense Oscar Camilion was questioned in Congress about the Argentine arms trafficking scandal; Cristina Kirchner told him that he had to resign, which he refused to do.

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Cristina Kirchner was removed from the PJ bloc in the Congress in 1997 for misconduct.

Cristina Kirchner resigned her senatorial seat that year and ran for national deputy in the 1997 midterm elections instead.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner took part in a commission to investigate money laundering with fellow legislator Elisa Carrio, and got into conflicts with her.

Cristina Kirchner ran again for senator in the 2001 midterm elections.

Nestor Cristina Kirchner was elected president in 2003, and she became the First Lady.

Cristina Kirchner's husband had a political dispute with the previous president, Eduardo Duhalde.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was popular among the suburban working class and the rural poor, while Carrio and Lavagna both received more support from the urban middle class.

Cristina Kirchner lost the election in the large cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was the second female president of Argentina, after Isabel Peron but, unlike Peron, she was elected to the office, whereas Isabel Peron was elected Juan Peron's vice president, and automatically assumed the presidency on his death.

Cristina Kirchner remained highly influential during his wife's term, supervising the economy and leading the PJ.

Media observers suspected that Mr Cristina Kirchner stepped down as president to circumvent the term limit, swapping roles with his wife.

When Nestor Cristina Kirchner refused to run for re-election in 2007 and proposed his wife instead, it was rumored that they could alternate in the presidency for the next 12 years to circumvent the constitutional limit of two consecutive terms.

Cristina Kirchner personally chose most of the candidates for deputy in the Congress, favoring members of the Campora.

Cristina Kirchner invited children on stage during the celebrations, and Vice President Amado Boudou played an electric guitar.

When she first took office, Cristina Kirchner replaced the previous minister of economy, Miguel Gustavo Peirano, who had been appointed by her husband as former president.

Cristina Kirchner served as the first of several ministers of economy under her presidency.

Cristina Kirchner was replaced by Argentina's tax agency chief Carlos Rafael Fernandez.

In January 2010, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner created the bicentennial fund employing a necessity and urgency decree in order to pay debt obligations with foreign-exchange reserves.

Extent to which Cristina Kirchner's policies have lowered poverty is controversial, with the government's reported poverty rate being questioned by some experts.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was reelected in 2011, along with Amado Boudou as vice president and the Front for Victory regained control over both chambers of Congress.

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Cristina Kirchner arranged payment of the debt to the Paris Club, and the compensation requested by Repsol for the nationalization of YPF.

Cristina Kirchner proposed a fiscal austerity program in early 2012, including the gradual removal of subsidies.

Cristina Kirchner opted instead to send a bill to Congress for the renationalization of YPF, privatized in 1993, blaming the Spanish company Repsol for the energy trade deficit.

In March 2008, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner introduced a new sliding-scale taxation system for agricultural exports, so that rates fluctuated with international prices.

Cristina Kirchner did not publicly support the proposal, but did not discourage or reject it either.

Cristina Kirchner dismissed the demonstration, and said that she would continue working as before.

Cristina Kirchner promised to keep her policies unchanged, and Senator Anibal Fernandez dismissed the significance of the demonstrations.

The 2013 season of the investigative journalism program Periodismo para todos revealed an ongoing case of political corruption involving Nestor Cristina Kirchner, called "The Route of the K-Money", which generated a huge political controversy.

Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who worked on the investigation of the 1994 Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina AMIA bombing, accused Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner of engaging in a criminal, cover-up conspiracy to cover up the attack.

Cristina Kirchner was found dead in his home the day before he was to explain his denunciation in Congress.

Cristina Kirchner received tax breaks to pay its debts, and was selected to print banknotes of the Argentine peso.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner presidency continued the trials of military personnel involved in the Dirty War started by her husband.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner government launched an illegal campaign against Clarin Group, which included over 450 legal and administrative acts of harassment, as reported by the Global Editors Network.

Cristina Kirchner justified the lack of press conferences, arguing that it is not important for her administration.

Cristina Kirchner was narrowly defeated by Francisco de Narvaez, who led a Peronist faction opposed to the Kirchners.

President Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner, who had undergone brain surgery some weeks before, was hospitalized during the election and unable to join the campaign.

Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was part of the "pink tide", a group of populist, left-wing presidents who ruled several Latin American countries in the 2000s.

Cristina Kirchner has been an unconditional supporter of Chavez and Maduro.

Cristina Kirchner maintained her support of Venezuela even during the large 2014 Venezuela protests and the imprisonment of its leader, Leopoldo Lopez.

Cristina Kirchner blamed the whole country for the 2014 default, ruled by US judge Thomas P Griesa.

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Cristina Kirchner said this a few days after accusing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of similar assassination plans against her.

However, due to the Pope's popularity in Argentina, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner made what the political analyst Claudio Fantini called a "Copernican shift" in her relations with him and fully embraced the Francis phenomenon.

Cristina Kirchner accused Iran of organizing the attack, and the Hezbollah group of carrying it out.

Cristina Kirchner intended to prosecute five Iranian officials, including former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, but Argentina signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran for a joint investigation.

In 2009, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner personally asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to cooperate with the Argentine justice to help bring closure to the AMIA bombing.

Cristina Kirchner pointed the belief of both mandataries in God and condemned Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust as well as other "Western tragedies" In the September 2009 UNGA, she clashed with Ahmadinejad and ordered the Argentine delegation to walk out on Ahmadinejad's speech, denouncing his rhetoric.

Cristina Kirchner changed the 2016 budget, increasing spending in several areas, despite the huge fiscal deficit.

Cristina Kirchner wrote a book called Sinceramente, which was published in 2019.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner faced several charges in court after leaving office.

Cristina Kirchner is being investigated for her role in "The Route of the K-Money" scandal.

Cristina Kirchner took advantage of the hearing to organize her first political rally since leaving power.

On 5 March 2018, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was indicted for obstructing investigation into the 1994 AMIA Bombing which killed 85 people, with her allegedly making a deal with the Iranian government to stop investigating Iranian officials who may have been involved in the attack in exchange for better prices on Iranian oil and other products.

Cristina Kirchner was the running mate of Alberto Fernandez, who was elected president.

Cristina Kirchner resigned from the Senate on 27 November 2019 after assuming the vice presidency, and was replaced by her former foreign minister Jorge Taiana.

Nestor Cristina Kirchner died on 27 October 2010 after suffering a heart attack.

Eduardo Duhalde said that Nestor Cristina Kirchner once confided in him that she had a bipolar disorder, while she was having a violent outburst.

Cristina Kirchner said in her book La Presidenta that it was all a misunderstanding; it is her sister who suffers from bipolar disorder.

On 27 December 2011, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimaro announced that Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer on 22 December and that she would undergo surgery on 4 January 2012.

Cristina Kirchner was re-admitted to hospital and had successful surgery on 8 October 2013 to remove blood from under a membrane covering her brain.

On 4 November 2021, Fernandez de Cristina Kirchner was admitted at the Santorio Otamendi after doctors found out that she had a uterine polyp and had to undergo hysterectomy.

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