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Brazil’s Lula visits Fernández de Kirchner under house arrest in Argentina
- On Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula met with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former Argentine leader currently under house arrest in her Buenos Aires residence.
- Fernández de Kirchner began serving a six-year corruption sentence last month after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction and lifetime ban from public office in June.
- Lula attended a Mercosur summit in Buenos Aires, marking his first visit since right-wing President Javier Milei took office in December 2023, and received court approval to visit Fernández de Kirchner.
- Kirchner, 72, called Lula's visit a “political act of solidarity” on social media, while large crowds demonstrated outside her residence showing strong support.
- The visit underscored tense relations between Lula and Milei and highlighted ongoing legal and political challenges surrounding Fernández de Kirchner's conviction and house arrest conditions.
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Buenos Aires., Among the most important events in the framework of the 66th Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), held yesterday in Buenos Aires, was the visit of the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in the house where the Peronist leader holds home prison, with whom she merged in a strong and exciting embrace and remained an hour in place, in an undoubtedly po…
On the sidelines of the Mercosur summit on Thursday, July 3, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited Cristina Kirchner, the former Argentine president sentenced in June to six years of detention for corruption. A highly symbolic visit, the first of a current head of state, and a nose of the current Argentine far-right president, Javier Milei.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her Buenos Aires apartment on June 3.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.- The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visited on Thursday the former Argentine President Cristina Fernández in the apartment of Buenos Aires where she is detained for corruption, in a sign of support for the figure of the center-left opposition. On his first trip to the southern country since the assumption of the presidency by the ultra-liberal Javier Milei, in December 2023, Lula did not meet with the Ar…
Brazil's Lula visits Fernández de Kirchner under house arrest in Argentina
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her home. Fernández is serving a six-year house arrest sentence for...
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Brazil's Lula vists Argentina's Kirchner, under house arrest
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited left-wing ally Cristina Kirchner on Thursday in Buenos Aires, where the former Argentine leader is under house arrest, wishing her "the strength to continue fighting."
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