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📉 Cristina banned, Bolivia broke
Argentina’s two-time former president Cristina Kirchner faces six-year arrest. And Bolivia has the most rapidly deteriorating economy in South America
Ignacio Portes & Lucas Berti
June 13, 2025
ARGENTINA
Supreme Court confirms Cristina Kirchner’s lifetime ban from office
Cristina Kirchner, saluting supporters from the balcony of her Buenos Aires apartment. Photo: Reuters/Folhapress
Argentina’s former two-time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s six-year prison sentence was upheld by the country’s Supreme Court this week, which also ratified her lifetime ban from public office.
Her sentence is based on a corruption probe in which prosecutors allege Kirchner defrauded the state in a series of public works contracts. While few independent observers dispute that significant graft occurred during the Kirchnerite decade, linking it directly to the current opposition leader has been harder, leading critics to denounce political persecution.
“Our party knows all about proscription, illegal detentions, summary executions, bombings and disappearances. This will not be the first time that Argentina’s economic powers try to illegally, irregularly and anticonstitutionally solve their main problem: Peronism,” Kirchner said.
The leader offered a public address minutes after the decision, surrounded by tens of thousands of supporters near the Peronist headquarters in Buenos Aires City.
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