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The Independent
a day ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Latin America and Caribbean week in pictures
June 6-12, 2025 Argentina's highest court upheld a six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in a ruling that permanently banned her from public office over the corruption conviction that found she had directed state contracts to a friend while she was the first lady and president. Miguel Uribe, a conservative Colombian presidential hopeful, was in critical condition after being shot in the head from close range during a campaign rally. People created a human chain along a Rio de Janeiro beach shore as part of a symbolic group hug with the sea to mark World Oceans Day. Brad Pitt donning a buzzcut arrives at a red carpet premiere in Mexico City to promote his latest film, 'F1: The Movie'. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca, based in Mexico City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog:
Associated Press
a day ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Latin America and Caribbean week in pictures
June 6-12, 2025 Argentina's highest court upheld a six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in a ruling that permanently banned her from public office over the corruption conviction that found she had directed state contracts to a friend while she was the first lady and president. Miguel Uribe, a conservative Colombian presidential hopeful, was in critical condition after being shot in the head from close range during a campaign rally. People created a human chain along a Rio de Janeiro beach shore as part of a symbolic group hug with the sea to mark World Oceans Day. Brad Pitt donning a buzzcut arrives at a red carpet premiere in Mexico City to promote his latest film, 'F1: The Movie'. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca, based in Mexico City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: Instagram:
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Glamorous ex-president sounds off in furious speech before being hauled to jail
Argentina's former president unleashed an all-time rant after the country's highest court upheld her six-year prison sentence on corruption charges - ripping into everyone from the current Argentine president to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Cristina Kirchner greeted thousands of supporters outside her party's headquarters in Buenos Aires on Tuesday night and slammed the Supreme Court 's three-judge panel decision. The 72-year-old was found guilty in 2022 of awarding 51 public contracts for public works to companies that were tied to a close friend and convicted construction magnate. The agreements were priced 20 percent above the standard rate in a scheme that cost the South American nation tens of millions of dollars, the government found. Kirchner's administration carried out 'an extraordinary fraudulent maneuver' that harmed the interests of the government and resulted in the embezzlement of roughly $70 million at the current exchange rate. In March, Kirchner, who served as president from 2007 to 2015 and was Vice President from 2019 to 2023 under President Alberto Fernandez, asked the court to review her sentence. On Tuesday, judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu and Andrés Bass – whom were all appointed by Kirchner, rejected her petition because the prison sentence 'does nothing more than to protect our republican and democratic system,' according to the resolution that was obtained by the Associated Press. Kirchner spoke out against their decision as the crowd got riled up and shouted an expletive-laden chat directed at the judges. 'They are three puppets who respond to natural commands far above them,' Kirchner said. 'Let no one be confused because the worst thing is not the opposition either, it is the economic power concentrated in the Republic of Argentina.' Kirchner did not stop there, going after current Argentine President Javier Milei and taking a thinly veiled shot at Trump, whom she accused of pandering to Elon Musk. 'He (Milei) is there because he was voted in, but when this puppet falls like the other puppet in the north, the friend of the chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk - look at the embarrassment and the mess, these things finally explode.' Kirchner, whose husband Nestor Kirchner was president from 2003 to 2007, has been given five business days to show up in court and turn herself in. The court also asked Argentina's security ministry to set up a detention center, where she is expected to be held. 'Being imprisoned is almost a certificate of political and personal historical dignity,' Kirchner said during the rally. A supporter gestures holding a banner outside the house of former President Cristina Kirchner after Argentina's Supreme Court upheld her guilty verdict for defrauding the government Kirchner's lawyers have asked the court to consider allowing her to serve her six-year sentence under home confinement because of her age and health condition. The court ruling also means that Kirchner will be banned from running in this fall's Buenos Aires legislative elections just days after she launched her campaign. Supporters of Kirchner and her political movement, known as 'Kirchnerism,' blocked main roads into Buenos Aires and stormed the offices of Argentina's two main cable networks that are widely considered critical of the ex-leader, Channel 13 and Todos Noticias, smashing televisions, vandalizing cars and shattering windows. There we no injuries reported.
Irish Times
3 days ago
- Politics
- Irish Times
Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner jailed for corruption in Argentina
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's former president and one of the country's most polarising political figures, has been sentenced to prison and barred for life from public office after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction. The ruling is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and comes after Ms Fernández, who was the target of an assassination attempt three years ago, announced plans for a political comeback. Supporters blocked key highways around the capital, Buenos Aires, before the court decision against the left-leaning Ms Fernández, who has clashed repeatedly with Argentina's right-wing president, Javier Milei , while major labour unions had threatened national strikes. The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Ms Fernández in a 27-page ruling, cementing a six-year sentence handed down by a lower court that had found she defrauded the state during her two terms as president, from 2007 to 2015. READ MORE Ms Fernández (72), is unlikely to serve significant prison time as Argentine law often allows house arrest for those over age 70. The lower court, which will determine if she gets home detention, said she had five business days to present herself before the tribunal to be officially detained. The former president could be held behind bars at a police station for a few days until a judge approves her home detention, said Andrés Gil Domínguez, a constitutional law professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Ms Fernández told supporters outside her party's headquarters shortly after the court ruling, 'This Argentina we're living in today never ceases to surprise us.' She called the three members of the Supreme Court 'puppets' and characterised them as 'a 'triumvirate of disgraceful figures' who answered to powerful economic interests, and said they were now 'imposing a clamp on the popular vote.' As for Mr Milei, he wrote, 'Justice' on the social platform X and reposted several messages that celebrated the ruling. A fixture in Argentine politics for more than three decades, Ms Fernández remains a divisive figure. While much of the country views her presidency as synonymous with economic mismanagement and corruption, she continues to command a loyal base that credits her with expansive social programmes. Ms Fernández, who was also vice president from 2019 to 2023, has faced numerous charges of corruption. She was convicted in 2022 of steering public roadworks contracts in a southern province to a family friend and business associate. She has rejected the charges as politically motivated, accusing opponents of weaponising the judiciary to curb her influence. The court determined that the scheme had began under her husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, and continued during her two presidential terms. He had been governor of southern Santa Cruz province and served as president from 2003 to 2007. He died in 2010. Since 2024, she has led the Justicialist Party, the main opposition force to Mr Milei and the largest political platform for Peronism, the populist, nationalist movement that has shaped much of Argentina's modern political history. Mr Milei has frequently blamed Ms Fernández, as well as her husband, for years of economic mismanagement and systemic corruption that sent the country into a downward economic spiral. Mr Milei won office in 2023 by vowing to slash public spending and overhaul Argentina's state-heavy economy. Ms Fernández recently announced that she was running for a seat in the Buenos Aires provincial legislature in elections this year. She would have been a heavy favorite, and a victory would have granted her immunity from serving the sentence. 'Coincidence is not a political category,' she told supporters as she prepared for the decision from Argentina's highest court. 'It only took us announcing a candidacy a week ago for the demons to be unleashed.' She characterised efforts to imprison her as a way to quiet her criticism of Mr Milei's right-wing economic policies, which have included broad austerity measures. 'Go ahead, throw me in prison,' she said. 'Do you really believe this will fix anything? I might be behind bars, but people will be worse off by the day.' During her trial in 2022, supporters gathered outside her Buenos Aires apartment every day to show solidarity. In September of that year, a man at the entrance to her building pointed a loaded pistol at her head at close range. The weapon jammed and she was uninjured. The accused gunman and two others are facing trial. The former president faces several other legal issues, including accusations of money laundering, orchestrating a corruption scheme involving public works and conspiring with Iran to cover up its suspected role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. - The New York Times . 2025 The New York Times Company
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner is sentenced to prison
Argentina's Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the polarizing former president and one of the country's most influential politicians, barring her from public office for life. Kirchner, 72, was formally charged with corruption Tuesday, and given five days to present herself before the court to be arrested.
