The utopias of a better world and a more just society have to do with words, with the generation of dreams, with imagination, with a very important i… - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

About Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 19 February 1953) served as president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015., She had previously served as First Lady alongside her husband Néstor Kirchner, who chose not to run for re-election in 2007 in support of his wife. Ideologically, she and her husband were left-wing Peronists. As President, she made a plan to raise export taxes on agricultural products which was not implemented due to mass strikes, fired the president of the Central Bank in order to create a fund to repay Argentina's foreign debt, partially renationalized YPF, full renationalized pension funds, pursued friendly diplomatic relations with other left-wing governments in Latin America, and implemented currency controls in an attempt to manage hyperinflation. Although she was relatively popular and was re-elected in a landslide in 2011, she failed to resolve Argentina's economic problems and her presidency ended in an Argentine sovereign default. Mauricio Macri subsequently defeated the Kirchnerist candidate Daniel Scioli in the 2015 Argentine general election. After her presidency, she was charged with treason for an alleged pact with Iran to grant immunity for perpetrators of the 1994 AMIA attack and corruption for bribery and insider trading. Although the treason charges were dismissed, she was sentenced to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from public office due to corruption. Despite this, she served as Vice President to Alberto Fernández between 2019 and 2023, and was heavily influential in his administration.

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