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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

April 2023

  • Donald Trump in a courtroom in New York City on 4 April.

    From Trump to Sarkozy: the political leaders who have been prosecuted

    Donald Trump is the first US president to be criminally charged, but across the globe, 78 countries have jailed or prosecuted leaders who left office since 2000

December 2022

  • Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva covers his eyes from the light as he gives a press conference in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.

    The Guardian view on Latin America’s left leaders: pink tide could lift all boats

    Editorial: The region’s politicians need a different model to deal with social unrest and political instability
  • TOPSHOT-ARGENTINA-POLITICS-JUSTICE-CORRUPTION-FERNANDEZ<br>TOPSHOT - A supporter of Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner kisses her image in a huge banner hung outside the Courthouse Comodoro Py in Buenos Aires on December 6, 2022. - A court on December 6 will deliver a verdict in a divisive corruption trial of Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Kirchner, who is likely to avoid jail even if found guilty due to congressional immunity. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

    Cristina Fernández may not go to jail but verdict upends Argentina’s politics

    The powerful – and polarising – vice-president was sentenced to six years for fraud and now will not seek the presidency next year
  • Argentina’s vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

    Argentina’s Cristina Fernández sentenced to six years in $1bn fraud case

    Vice-president and former president also given lifelong ban on holding public office after being found guilty

September 2022

  • Fernando Sabag Montiel covered with a hoodie over his face escorted by police officers

    Far-right group discussed killing Argentina’s vice-president, court hears

  • Police officers outside Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 1 September.

    Third person arrested in Argentina over attempt to assassinate vice-president

  • Santiago Mitre at the Venice film festival

    Don’t take democracy for granted, warns director of Argentine junta film

  • Argentinians march to support the vice-president on Friday. The suspect was arrested and named as Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel.

    Argentinians march for Cristina Fernández after vice-president survives assassination bid

  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: arrest after attempted shooting of Argentina vice-president

  • Attack on Argentina vice-president 'most serious event since return of democracy' – video

  • Man points gun at Argentinian vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – video

May 2020

  • A man waits in front of a poster with a message from the government to ask people to comply with quarantine rules, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    ‘You can’t recover from death’: Argentina’s Covid-19 response the opposite of Brazil’s

    Argentina closed swiftly, while Brazil downplayed the crisis. The difference is reflected in their pandemic figures

December 2019

  • Alberto Fernandez Takes Office in Argentina<br>BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - DECEMBER 10: Argentina President-elect Alberto Fernandez and Argentina Vice President-elect Cristina Fernandez pose during the presidential inauguration at National Congress on December 10, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Amilcar Orfali/Getty Images)

    'We're back': Alberto Fernández sworn in as Argentina shifts to the left

    Center-left leader calls for healing as Peronists, including ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, return to power

October 2019

  • Alberto Fernandez greets his supporters along with former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

    Argentina election: Macri out as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returns to office as VP

    Victory of Alberto Fernández’s presidential campaign puts an end to the pro-business economic policies of Macri’s administration
  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner celebrates comeback win in Argentina elections – video

     Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former Argentinian president, celebrates becoming the new vice-president alongisde the newly elected president, Alberto Fernández

  • Polls say Fernández de Kirchner and presidential candidate Alberto Fernández (no relation), could win by as much as 19 percentage points.

    Cristina's comeback: Fernández de Kirchner set for dramatic return as Argentina's No 2

    She was vilified when she left office in 2015 – but polls say the former president and Alberto Fernández are likely to oust Mauricio Macri

August 2019

  • Cristina Kirchner after a meeting with presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez in Buenos Aires last week.

    Observer dispatch
    Plunging peso, grinding poverty: Argentina hears echoes of 2001 crisis

    Fiery ex-president Cristina Kirchner is making a comeback as the number two on a resurgent centre-left ticket

December 2018

  • Former Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner waves as she leaves the Federal Justice building in Buenos Aires<br>Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves as she leaves the Federal Justice building in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

    The world in 2019
    Argentina election year likely to see match-up of political heavyweights

    President Mauricio Macri’s austerity policies have failed to bring his promise of ‘zero inflation’ – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is positioning herself to challenge him in October

September 2018

  • A man protests against a police search at the home of Senator and former president Cristina Fernandez. The search was part of a larger corruption investigation.

    Bestselling book claims corruption is Argentina's 'main structure of power'

  • Former Argentine President and senator Fernandez de Kirchner attends a session at the Senate in Buenos Aires<br>Former Argentine President and senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner attends a session at the Senate in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

    Argentina: ex-president Cristina Fernández charged in bribery scandal

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