Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
Argentina’s former president, now vice-president, steered public works contracts to a family friend
It was not your average Zoom call. On December 6th a panel of three judges sentenced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s vice-president, to six years in jail and imposed a lifetime ban on holding public office. When their meeting ended, Ms Fernández responded through her own livestream on Twitter, denying all allegations and arguing that the judiciary was “a parallel state”. “This is what you want: me jailed or dead,” she thundered.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Peronist in peril”
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