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Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerist, a form of left-wing populism.

Born in Tolosa, La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, she studied law for one year at the University of La Plata and moved to Patagonia with her husband Néstor Kirchner upon his graduation. She was elected to the provincial legislature while her husband was elected mayor of Río Gallegos. She was elected national senator in 1995 and had a controversial tenure while her husband was elected governor of Santa Cruz Province. In 1994, she was also elected to the constituent assembly that amended the Constitution of Argentina. She was the First Lady from 2003 to 2007 after her husband was elected President.

Her husband did not run for reelection, instead she was the candidate for the Front for Victory party, becoming President in the 2007 presidential election. Her first term of office started with a conflict with the agricultural sector and her proposed taxation system was rejected. After this, she nationalized private pension funds and fired the president of the Central Bank of Argentina. The price of public services remained subsidized and she denationalized energy firm YPF, a company which had sorely underperformed when under private management. The country fell into a technical sovereign default in 2014 not because of incapacity to service debt, but due to United States legal sanctions imposed on the government. The country had good relations with other South American nations and rocky ones with the United States and the United Kingdom. She also continued her husband's human rights policies and had a rocky relationship with the mass media after the Media Law was sanctioned in the country to disassemble information oligopolies. Her husband died in 2010 and she was reelected in 2011. She established currency controls during her second term forced by external currency restrictions. In the 2013 midterm elections, the Front for Victory lost majority and failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to amend the constitution to allow the President to run for a third term.

Several corruption scandals took place and she faced several demonstrations against her rule. She was charged for low price sales of dollar futures, "The Rout of the K-Money" scandal, and was indited for obstructing investigation into the 1994 AMIA Bombing. In 2018, she was also indicted for corruption on charges alleging that her administration had accepted bribes in exchange of public works contracts.In 2015, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a 300-page document accusing Cristina Fernandez Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Nisman was murdered hours before he was due to testify against the former president, which the Federal Court of Buenos Aires ruled as a "direct consequence" of Nisman's accusations against Kirchner. In 2017, Judge Claudio Bonadio accused Kirchner of treason and called on the country’s senate to permit her arrest and trial for allegedly covering up Iranian involvement in a 1994 bomb attack. Kirchner is currently referred for public trial over alleged cover-up of Iranian involvement in 1994 Jewish center bombing.

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Famous Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Quotes

“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.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Nota en Clarin 20/10/2005 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/10/20/elpais/p-01201.htm
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“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.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Nota en Clarin 06/05/2006 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/05/06/um/m-01190878.htm
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“I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

On signing the quoted in An article in the web site of Disappeared Persons 06/02/2007 by http://www.desaparecidos.org/bbs/archives/003331.html (6 February 2007)
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“In Latin America we can give cathedra about harassment and seizure.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

As quoted in Hard cross between Cristina and Sarkozy at the G20 http://www.minutouno.com.ar/minutouno/nota/131392-Duro-cruce-entre-Cristina-y-Sarkozy-en-el-G-20/ Minutouno.com 2010
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“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?.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Nota en Clarin 27/07/2005 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/07/27/elpais/p-01201.htm
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“Memory and freedom must be everybody’s daily exercise in order to prevent a new holocaust and a renewed violation of human rights.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Nota en Clarin 25/04/2006 http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/04/25/um/m-01184158.htm
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“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.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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>.
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“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.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Fuente: Telam 29/10/2006 http://web.archive.org/20070927195620/www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=41633&id=109550&dis=1&sec=1
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“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.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Speech A speech published in the web site of the Cervantes Virtual Center http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/rosario/clausura/fernandez_c.htm
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