Rappler's latest stories on Cristina Kirchner
Argentina ex-president Kirchner to be tried for fourth time
Cristina Kirchner is accused of having taken $160 million in bribes for steering public works contracts towards favored businessmen close to her and her late husband Nestor
Argentine ex-minister jailed for hiding $9 million in convent
The Argentina court sentences Jose Lopez to prison after he was caught red-handed tossing 160 suitcases and duffel bags stuffed with $9 million in cash over a wall into the garden of the convent
Argentine surprise: Kirchner to seek vice presidency
The announcement comes just 3 days before the ex-Argentine president goes on trial on corruption charges
Argentine senate approves search of Kirchner homes
In a fiery and defiant speech to the chamber, former president Cristina Kirchner reiterates that the cases against her are politically motivated
Argentina judge orders arrest of ex-president Cristina Kirchner
(3rd UPDATE) Former president Cristina Kirchner holds a press conference in Buenos Aires to hit back at the charges, saying the order seeking her arrest is 'an excess that violates the rule of law'
Argentina elects pro-business Macri after 12 years of Kirchner rule
Conservative president elect Mauricio Macri promises a marvelous new era was starting for his country beleaguered by years of economic instability
Argentina votes on big economic, political change
Polls show that the mayor of Buenos Aires former Boca Juniors football executive Mauricio Macri 56 could beat his left wing rival Daniel Scioli 58 an ex power boating champion
Scioli leads Argentina vote but may face runoff
The next president will inherit a country troubled by inflation an overvalued currency and an economy facing what the International Monetary Fund predicts will be a 0 7 contraction next year
Argentina creates new spy agency after prosecutor's death
A new bill dissolves the Secretariat of Intelligence and replaces it with a body called the Federal Intelligence Agency
Argentines demand independent judiciary in huge street march
The protest takes place a month after a state prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Kirchner of plotting to cover up his investigation into a 1994 bombing was found dead
Kirchner gains nothing from prosecutor's death, says minister
Who gained by having Mr Nisman dead? Foreign Minister Hector Timerman says in a story published Tuesday February 10 Not me Not the president
Holocaust-expert judge takes on Argentine bombing case
The case has become a hot potato in the courts amid revelations that late prosecutor Alberto Nisman had drafted an arrest warrant for President Cristina Kirchner before he was found dead
Argentine president risks China row after Twitter gibes
Argentina s President Cristina Kirchner appears to poke fun on Twitter at her Chinese hosts difficulty pronouncing the letters L and R in Spanish
Argentine prosecutor drafted Kirchner arrest warrant – official
Prosecutor Viviana Fein admits the 26 page warrant for Kirchner s arrest dated June 14 2014 was discovered after Nisman s death from a gunshot wound on January 18
Argentina to disband intelligence service after prosecutor death
UPDATED Kirchner says Argentina s Intelligence Secretariat will be dissolved and replaced by a Federal Intelligence Agency with a leadership chosen by the president but subject to Senate approval
Reporter flees Argentina after threats in dead prosecutor case
President Kirchner meanwhile says she believes the 51 year old prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered in a plot to implicate her government in a coverup
Argentine prosecutor shot point blank in forehead: official
Alberto Nisman was found dead with a bullet to the head just before he was set to make allegations against Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner
Argentina's Kirchner says prosecutor killed in 'operation' against her
Investigators have said Alberto Nisman appeared to have committed suicide but have not ruled out homicide or an induced suicide
Argentine prosecutor's death sparks uproar, full probe vowed
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner s government pledges its full backing of a probe into the suspicious death of a prosecutor who had accused her of obstructing his investigation of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center
Argentine prosecutor who accused Kirchner found dead
The 51 year old government lawyer Alberto Nisman was expected to be damning testimony against Argentine President Cristina Kirchner
Argentine central bank chief resigns amid economic turmoil
Juan Carlos Fabrega s decision to quit after less than a year in the post comes a day after an emotional President Cristina Kirchner alleged in a televised address that domestic and US interests were pushing to devalue the peso topple her center left government – and even kill her
Argentine leader seeks pope's backing for debt battle
The hedge funds won a decision that derailed Argentina s bid to restructure its debt by barring it from paying creditors who had accepted 70 losses without also paying the plaintiffs the full 1 3 billion due
Argentine lawmakers OK debt payment alternatives
Argentina s lawmakers approve a measure that would transfer the payment site for the country s restructured debt obligations from New York to Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires moves to pay bondholders in Argentina – Kirchner
Buenos Aires moves to pay bondholders domestically after a US bank left it unable to do so President Cristina Kirchner said
With new default looming, Argentina urges calm
With no visible progress in talks with the holdouts the country could fail to make a 539 million payment on the restructured debt by the Wednesday July 30 deadline
Chinese president wields economic might on LatAm tour
Analysts say Xi Jinping s trip was more about business than ideology
US judge urges Argentina, hedge funds to avoid default
US judge: A default is the worst thing I don t want that People will be hurt
China's Xi hails 'new horizons' in ties with Argentina
Xi is on a Latin American charm offensive to secure bilateral trade deals – particularly coveted raw materials – from governments throughout the region
Thousands welcome Argentina home after World Cup final defeat
Messi: I would have liked to have brought home the Cup and enjoyed it with you the country We gave everything we had but we just didn t manage it
Argentina won't make bond payment in US – official
US District Judge Thomas Griesa earlier lifted a stay requiring Argentina to pay hedge funds that refused to join a restructuring of the country s debt
US Supreme Court rejects Argentine debt appeals
The justices effectively uphold an August 2013 New York appeals court ruling that ordered Argentina to pay NML Capital and other hedge funds that had refused to participate in a restructuring deal for debt on which Buenos Aires defaulted in 2001
Kirchner undergoes medical tests after Cuba trip
The president is undergoing tests after showing symptoms of sciatica and lower back pain according to a statement
Argentine president ordered released from hospital
Kirchner 60 is instructed to observe strict rest for 30 days and told to avoid air travel until further notice
Kirchner blood clot surgery 'a success' – Argentina
President Kirchner was said to be in good spirits following the operation which came just three weeks before crucial mid term legislative elections
Argentina leader to receive surgery for brain injury
A decision to operate was taken after Kirchner complained of tingling and a temporary loss of muscle strength in her left arm late Sunday
Argentina's Kirchner on 1-month rest after head trauma
Argentina s President Cristina Kirchner has been ordered to rest for a month after doctors found she has a traumatic brain injury linked to an August incident
Argentina searches for missing after building blast
The Argentine government decreed 2 days of national mourning and ordered flags flown at half mast
Argentina says Ban must 'wear down' Britain over Falklands
Argentina s Hector Timerman and the foreign ministers of Uruguay and Cuba met the UN secretary general to back the Argentine case for sovereignty over the islands
Pope Francis set for inauguration mass
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the mass laden with rituals and spectacular imagery
Argentina asks Pope's help in Falklands issue
Kirchner: I asked his intervention to promote dialogue between the two sides
World leaders head to Rome for pope's inaugural mass
An event that poses an inevitable protocol headache for the Vatican will also be a first test of the former Buenos Aires archbishop s ability to navigate choppy diplomatic waters
Pope Francis urged to work for peace
World leaders and Catholics hailed the election of Jorge Bergoglio from Argentina as the first Latin American pope urging him to work for religious reconciliation and peace
Argentina's Kirchner slams Falklands vote as 'parody'
UPDATE Argentine President Cristina Kirchner Tuesday March 12 slammed as a parody the referendum in the disputed Falkland islands
Venezuelans begin emotional farewells to Chavez
UPDATE Hundreds of thousands waved flags and chanted Chavez lives as his hearse crawled across the capital in a seven hour trip from the hospital where he died to a military academy
Britain would fight to keep the Falklands - Cameron
Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner said this week Britain was forcibly stripped of the Falklands in a blatant exercise of 19th century colonialism and demanded they be handed over to Argentina
Britain, Argentina joust over Falklands 30 years after war
President Cristina Kirchner pressed Argentina s claim to the Falkland Islands at the United Nations on Thursday June 14 as Buenos Aires and Britain traded warnings and barbs on the 30th anniversary of their war over the disputed territory
