Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
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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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[edit]- You can be sure that all and each one of us who have institutional responsibilities will raise not only our voice but will take concrete action against any sign of anti-Semitism. We are not willing to give away what has been a historic tradition in Latin America.
- Márquez, Humberto. "ARGENTINA-VENEZUELA: Cristina Fernández triunfa en 15 minutos." IPS. 26 Mar 2007. IPS - Inter Press Service (América Latina). 23 Mar 2008 <http://archive.is/20130703061615/ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=40480>.
- The present time Latin America is going through, with its impressive natural and human resources, devoid of racial and religious conflicts, is a unique moment, and I believe that Argentina and Argentines are at the doorstep of an unprecedented opportunity.
2005
[edit]- Where do you imagine Evita to stand: asking not to go back to the past, or next to the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo?.
- Our society needs women to be more numerous in decision-making positions and in entrepreneurial areas. We always have to pass a twofold test: first to prove that, though women, we are no idiots, and second, the test anybody has to pass.
2006
[edit]- Peronism is so much like Argentines. We Peronists, just like all Argentines, are capable of spawning the most generous actions and the most sublime individuals, as well as the most despicable actions. That’s how contradictory we are. When kidnapping was rife in this country and people were made to disappear and thrown into the river, the defenders of press freedom went AWOL.
- Memory and freedom must be everybody’s daily exercise in order to prevent a new holocaust and a renewed violation of human rights.
- The present time Latin America is going through, with its impressive natural and human resources, devoid of racial and religious conflicts, is a unique moment, and I believe that Argentina and Argentines are at the doorstep of an unprecedented opportunity.
2007
[edit]- I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism.
- On signing the quoted in An article in the web site of Disappeared Persons 06/02/2007 by (6 February 2007)
- 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 identity that overcomes languages and is the identity of the human condition, to be able to recognize our own image in every fellow man, in a different age. I believe that the key to our time lies in this respect for diversity.
2010
[edit]- In Latin America we can give cathedra about harassment and seizure.
- As quoted in Hard cross between Cristina and Sarkozy at the G20 Minutouno.com 2010
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[edit]- Much has been said these days about the inheritance we are to receive. Let me be very clear about this. No government has received a worse inheritance than the one we are receiving. In its beginnings, Kirchnerism boasted of having two surpluses. That is, fiscal and external surpluses. Today it leaves us with twin deficits of 17 points of GDP. In turn, 15 of these 17 GDP points correspond to the consolidated deficit between the Treasury and the Central Bank. Therefore, there is no viable solution that avoids attacking the budget deficit. At the same time, of these 15 points of fiscal deficit, 5 correspond to the National Treasury and 10 to the Central Bank. Therefore, the solution implies, on the one hand, a fiscal adjustment in the national public sector of 5 points of GDP, which, unlike in the past, will fall almost entirely on the State and not on the private sector. Therefore, there is no viable solution that avoids attacking the fiscal deficit. At the same time, of these 15 points of fiscal deficit, 5 correspond to the National Treasury and 10 to the Central Bank. Therefore, the solution implies, on the one hand, a fiscal adjustment in the national public sector of 5 points of GDP, which, unlike in the past, will fall almost entirely on the State and not on the private sector.
- Javier Milei, Presidential Inaugural Address, 10 December 2023
