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The law finally catches up with Cristina

Today 05:43 Like much of the rest of the country, Cristina takes it for granted that the law is a weapon the powerful are entitled to use to defend their own interests and punish their foes. This makes what is happening even more painful for her than would otherwise be the case.

by James Neilson

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Climax

Today 05:41 The court judging the ‘Vialidad’ case is expected to reach a verdict that will condemn the former president in some sort of way, validating the accusations of corruption against her, Kirchnerite businessman Lázaro Báez and several government officials.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

FEATURE COLUMN

Cristina candidate, Sergio candidate

Today 05:02 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may well have embarked upon a path which will lead to her presidential run. Sergio Massa, looking further ahead, maintains that he will not run. But if his economic experiment succeeds, he may become the natural Frente de Todos candidate for 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

CFK PUBLIC WORKS TRIAL

Point by point: CFK’s defence against allegations in Vialidad case

01-12-2022 17:31 Countdown to the verdict in the ‘Vialidad’ case has begun, in which Vice-President Cristina Fernández Kirchner and more than 10 others face corruption accusations.

CABINET FOR CRISTINA

Cabinet ministers accuse opposition of judicial ‘prostitution’

01-12-2022 01:15 Interior Minister Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedro accuses opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition of having corrupt ties with the Judiciary, comparing them to prostitution.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner brands court 'firing squad' as graft trial nears end

29-11-2022 13:50 One hearing remains in ‘Vialidad’ trial, on December 6 – the same day a verdict is expected, though judges technically have up to 10 days to rule.

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Hebe de Bonafini, 1928-2022

26-11-2022 06:44 The traumas of 1977, when Hebe de Bonafini lost both her sons, were the turning-point in her life, taking her from complete obscurity to a place in Argentine history and even the world spotlight.

by Michael Soltys

Politics & corruption

Sergio Berni walks the line as the coalitions bend

26-11-2022 06:26 Sergio Berni is once again walking on the edge of a tightrope, a situation he knows all too well.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Politics

Fernández de Kirchner decries loss of ‘democratic pact’ in speech

18-11-2022 00:08 Amid shouts from supporters for her to make a presidential run, Argentina's vice-president delivers fiery take on the country’s current situation, while dodging any direct announcement as to candidacies.

Cristina & the courts

‘Vialidad’ graft trial against Fernández de Kirchner nears climax

15-11-2022 09:27 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her co-defendants challenge prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola as ‘Vialidad’ corruption trial, probing alleged public works graft in Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015, creeps towards climax.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

CFK's legal team requests judge’s removal from probe into attack

14-11-2022 18:14 Vice-president’s legal team seeks recusal of Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti in strong terms, accusing her of failing to investigate the so-called ‘Casablanca trail’ and alleging that she neither “knows nor wants to investigate” crime thoroughly.

Cristina & the courts

Prosecutor calls for CFK Hotesur-Los Sauces acquittal to be overturned

11-11-2022 10:47 Prosecutor Mario Villar requests that last year’s court decision that paved way for acquittal of defendants without bringing the case to trial be overturned.

ARGENTINA

CFK demands removal of judge in assassination attempt probe

10-11-2022 14:52 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands recusal of Judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti in explosive intervention, linking opposition politician Gerardo Millman to failed attack and alleging assailants’ political connections have not been thoroughly investigated.

POLITICS

‘Cristina presidenta’ – Kirchnerites ramp up calls for CFK 2023 run

07-11-2022 20:46 Politicians aligned with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner seek to capitalise on last Friday’s speech in Pilar, as clamour among grassroots activists for vice-president to launch another Casa Rosada candidacy grows.

Politics

Eliminating the primaries: Cristina & Alberto’s new face-off

05-11-2022 06:50 The debate regarding the suspension of Argentina’s controversial PASO primaries is dictated by the personal interests of the involved parties.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Vice-president's speech

CFK hints at 2023 run in speech linking failed attack to Macrismo

04-11-2022 21:45 "I will do whatever I have to do so that our people can organise themselves into a project for a country,” declares former president in first public appearance since failed assassination attempt.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Fernández de Kirchner stokes speculation on presidential run

04-11-2022 21:27 Vice-president calls for a political 'reorganisation,' on Friday, hinting at the possibility of a presidential run next year as speculation builds about her candidacy.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Sergio Massa: Stuck between Cristina and Kristalina

02-11-2022 17:46 Argentina’s ‘super’ economy minister is torn between the demands of the International Monetary Fund and the wing of the ruling coalition led by Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

by Carlos Claá

POLITICS

PASOs and presidential hopefuls – sources of tension for Frente de Todos

31-10-2022 12:57 President Alberto Fernández is willing to go to bat to defend the PASOs and will run as a candidate, despite pressure from his coalition allies. Dialogue has broken down with delays to definitions likely to be the end result.

by Rosario Ayerdi

POLITICS / ANALYSIS

The hypocrisy of calling for consensus in an era of polarisation

29-10-2022 06:00 The distance between what politicians say in public and their actions is incredibly large, and it’s not clear whether this is a prerequisite or a consequence of the profession.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Vice-president on warpath

Fernández de Kirchner reignites infighting with inflation jab

26-10-2022 17:37 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner reignites infighting in the ruling coalition by criticising price increases authorised by her own government.

OCTOBER 17

Demands ring out as divided Peronism marks Loyalty Day

17-10-2022 20:40 Demands rang out from trade union groups and politicians on Monday as Peronist Loyalty Day was marked with rallies across the country.

Analysis: Rodríguez Larreta 2023

The Mayor

15-10-2022 06:01 While Horacio Rodríguez Larreta represents a centrist tendency in Argentine politics, the true protagonists are still Macri and Cristina.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CABINET RESHUFFLE

President reshuffles his pack with ‘militant women’

14-10-2022 09:23 Raquel Olmos takes on Labour portfolio, Victoria Tolosa Paz to helm Social Development Ministry, Ayelén Mazzina becomes Women, Gender & Diversity minister.

CABINET CHANGES

Faithful five: the Cabinet allies who’ve stayed with Alberto Fernández

11-10-2022 16:10 President Alberto Fernández is nearing almost three years in office, but his team is much changed. Since then, 16 ministers and one secretary have left or changed their posts, leaving just five of the original crew remaining.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Argentina’s political crisis restarts with ministers leaving

10-10-2022 16:14 Cabinet shake-up, with three ministers departing in as many days, is the latest episode of Argentina’s ongoing political crisis.

Politics

Bolsonaro and Manes: the victors in Brazil and Argentina?

08-10-2022 07:00 While President Alberto Fernández and his boss Cristina, both Lula fanboys, could celebrate another victory for the “progressives” of Latin America, the true reasons to raise a glass could have more to do with what’s happening in the Argentine opposition.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Airport Security Police recover content from CFK attacker’s phone

06-10-2022 15:01 Head of Airport Security Police (PSA) confirms experts have gained access to “three Google accounts” and “entire Telegram database” of Fernando Sabag Montiel; Investigators will now comb through messages dating back to 2020.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Judge charges two more for role in Fernández de Kirchner assassination attempt

02-10-2022 08:31 Federal Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti on Saturday charged Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo and Agustina Díaz with complicity in the attempted assassination of Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last month.

POLITICS

Sergio Massa: from buying time to running out of time

01-10-2022 07:00 No-one should doubt Massa’s courage in taking on the Economy Ministry at a time of extreme crisis, nor his ambition, despite claiming he’s taking his final steps in the political realm. He’s eyeing 2023 and 2027. Both Fernándezes know this, and they don’t like it.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ARGENTINA & THE IMF

Lula criticises Alberto Fernández for sticking to IMF debt deal

29-09-2022 14:11 Former Brazil president and candidate in this Sunday’s election says Argentina’s leader is “in a bind” and has disappointed voters by attempting to resolve the nation's US$44.5-billion debt deal.

Cristina & the courts

Fernández de Kirchner makes her defence in public works graft trial

23-09-2022 14:29 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accuses prosecutors of delivering "lies, slander and defamation" as she takes up her own defence in court during 'Vialidad' public works corruption trial.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

No appeal from CFK attack 'co-authors' Sabag Montiel and Uliarte

22-09-2022 01:50 Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte refrain from appealing their indictments for attempted homicide, with Nicolás Carrizo, the alleged leader of the candy floss gang, and Agustina Díaz set to testify.

ANALYSIS

Cristina the candidate?

21-09-2022 22:32 Frente de Todos closed ranks on vice-president after failed attack after the assassination attempt. What the opinion polls say about her chances of running for office – and her image.

by Rodis Recalt

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

President warns UN leaders of threat from political violence

20-09-2022 22:21 Alberto Fernández addresses attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on world stage for first time, as he calls for greater global solidarity on efforts to tackle political violence and food insecurity.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Fernández de Kirchner's defence team attacks 'lies' in corruption trial

20-09-2022 17:28 Lawyers for vice-president accuse Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola of “blatantly lying” in graft case probing alleged public works corruption during Fernández de Kirchner’s time in office.

POLITICS

No approach yet but long-shot CFK-Macri summit still a possibility

20-09-2022 15:20 Argentina’s Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recognises that were she to sit down with anybody from the opposition, it would be with the ex-president, whom she considers is the true boss of Juntos por el Cambio. Mauricio Macri would agree to the meeting but believes that Cristina must make the invitation.

EDITORIAL

Magnicide versus magnification

17-09-2022 02:57 The failed attack on the vice-president should serve to place the grieta rift in a new light. Instead of being viewed as an unbridgeable gap between two political sides, the chasm should be seen as the millions who find no place in the two opposing coalitions or society as a whole.

As I see it

Rumblings from below

17-09-2022 02:55 The botched attempt to assassinate Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has encouraged fears that Argentina could see the return of political violence.

by James Neilson

POLITICS & ECONOMY

What do the Kirchnerites think of Massa?

16-09-2022 16:13 Why is Economy Minister Sergio Massa allowed to do what Martín Guzmán wasn’t? And furthermore, is the ex-Tigre mayor doing enough?

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Poll finds one in two believe CFK assassination attempt was fabricated

15-09-2022 23:43 Survey of 1,700 individuals finds that 58.4% of respondents believe failed shooting attempt in Recoleta to be “an invented fact.”

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Extremist group in spotlight as Fernández de Kirchner attack probe progresses

15-09-2022 23:38 Fernando André Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte formally charged with attempted murder; AFI leaks audio from Revolución Federal group proposing “infiltration” techniques to kill the vice-president.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

‘I’m alive because of God and Virgin Mary’ – Cristina breaks silence after assassination attempt

15-09-2022 23:06 Vice-president referred to the event for the first time in public and revealed she received a call from Pope Francis in the wake of the failed shooting attack.

FEATURE

Cash-strapped Argentina goes all or nothing on new economy chief

15-09-2022 15:55 New ‘super’ minister has undoubted political clout and scored early wins in Washington – but Sergio Massa’s presidential ambitions depend on avoiding economic meltdown

Opinion

The crime of the precarious

15-09-2022 01:19 The attempt on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s life warranting repudiation throws light on the structural backdrop of the excluded in this country.

by Eduardo Fidanza

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

Third person arrested in Fernández de Kirchner assassination probe

13-09-2022 21:19 Investigation into failed shooting attack on Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner takes another turn as a third individual – named in local media as Agustina Díaz, a friend of the assailant's partner Brenda Uliarte – is taken into custody by police.

ATTACK ON VICE-PRESIDENT

President claims Fernández de Kirchner's attackers also wanted to kill him

12-09-2022 16:38 President Alberto Fernández speaks about the assassination attempt against Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during interview with Spanish television and says he was also set to be targeted.

POLITICS

President Fernández condemns death threats against Mauricio Macri

10-09-2022 11:49 President Alberto Fernández condemns death threats made against his predecessor in office, opposition leader Mauricio Macri.

And that reminds me…

Fake news and the real thing

10-09-2022 02:57 Just as the trial of the junta dictators served as a catalyst to unify a newly democratic society, so the shock of the assassination attempt could have been a golden opportunity to consign polarisation to the past.

by Michael Soltys

As I see it

Something is knocking on the door

10-09-2022 02:00 As was to be expected, the government wasted no time in trying to take advantage of what had happened last week outside Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's apartment building in Recoleta.

by James Neilson

News of fernandez de kirchner

The law finally catches up with Cristina

Climax

Cristina candidate, Sergio candidate

Point by point: CFK’s defence against allegations in Vialidad case

Cabinet ministers accuse opposition of judicial ‘prostitution’

Fernández de Kirchner brands court 'firing squad' as graft trial nears end

Hebe de Bonafini, 1928-2022

Sergio Berni walks the line as the coalitions bend

Fernández de Kirchner decries loss of ‘democratic pact’ in speech

‘Vialidad’ graft trial against Fernández de Kirchner nears climax

CFK's legal team requests judge’s removal from probe into attack

Prosecutor calls for CFK Hotesur-Los Sauces acquittal to be overturned

CFK demands removal of judge in assassination attempt probe

‘Cristina presidenta’ – Kirchnerites ramp up calls for CFK 2023 run

Eliminating the primaries: Cristina & Alberto’s new face-off

CFK hints at 2023 run in speech linking failed attack to Macrismo

Fernández de Kirchner stokes speculation on presidential run

Sergio Massa: Stuck between Cristina and Kristalina

PASOs and presidential hopefuls – sources of tension for Frente de Todos

The hypocrisy of calling for consensus in an era of polarisation

Fernández de Kirchner reignites infighting with inflation jab

Demands ring out as divided Peronism marks Loyalty Day

The Mayor

President reshuffles his pack with ‘militant women’

Faithful five: the Cabinet allies who’ve stayed with Alberto Fernández

Argentina’s political crisis restarts with ministers leaving

Bolsonaro and Manes: the victors in Brazil and Argentina?

Airport Security Police recover content from CFK attacker’s phone

Judge charges two more for role in Fernández de Kirchner assassination attempt

Sergio Massa: from buying time to running out of time

Lula criticises Alberto Fernández for sticking to IMF debt deal

Fernández de Kirchner makes her defence in public works graft trial

No appeal from CFK attack 'co-authors' Sabag Montiel and Uliarte

Cristina the candidate?

President warns UN leaders of threat from political violence

Fernández de Kirchner's defence team attacks 'lies' in corruption trial

No approach yet but long-shot CFK-Macri summit still a possibility

Magnicide versus magnification

Rumblings from below

What do the Kirchnerites think of Massa?

Poll finds one in two believe CFK assassination attempt was fabricated

Extremist group in spotlight as Fernández de Kirchner attack probe progresses

‘I’m alive because of God and Virgin Mary’ – Cristina breaks silence after assassination attempt

Cash-strapped Argentina goes all or nothing on new economy chief

The crime of the precarious

Third person arrested in Fernández de Kirchner assassination probe

President claims Fernández de Kirchner's attackers also wanted to kill him

President Fernández condemns death threats against Mauricio Macri

Fake news and the real thing

Something is knocking on the door

'Rogue wave' kills person on Antarctic cruise

Scaloni thanks fans in Bangladesh for their support:

Thousands in Bangladesh capital cheer Argentina's World Cup win

Mountains of waste overwhelm Buenos Aires effort to curb methane

Why is Argentina’s national team known as ‘La Scaloneta’?

Militantes feministas bailaron en la Facultad de Derecho

Malvinas: el Gobierno rechazó el posible despliegue de soldados kosovares

El VAR nos gana por goleada, pero Cavani nos vengó a todos los futboleros

La respuesta del titular de la AFIP a Tolosa Paz por el escándalo de Potenciar Trabajo

Se remató un terreno de los Kirchner y nadie se presentó