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Lula Visits Former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner in House Arrest
- During Mercosur trade discussions in Buenos Aires on Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula met with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former president of Argentina, at her residence.
- Fernández de Kirchner, serving a six-year sentence for fraudulent administration since last month and barred for life from office, has lost her final appeal upheld by the Supreme Court in June.
- Lula, who faced and overcame his own corruption conviction, expressed solidarity and support, stressing their long friendship and Kirchner's determination to keep fighting amid what she called an authoritarian drift under President Javier Milei.
- Kirchner hailed Lula's visit as "a political act of solidarity" on social media platform X, emphasizing their shared ideals of social justice, while supporters rallied outside her apartment.
- The visit highlighted regional leftist alliances as Brazil assumed Mercosur's rotating presidency, underscoring tensions with Milei's government, which Kirchner accuses of hollowing democracy and state intimidation.
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Brazil's Lula pledges 'solidarity' as he visits house-confined Fernández de Kirchner
Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, condemned to house arrest as she serves a six-year jail term for corruption-related offences, hosts Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at her apartment in Buenos Aires.
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 president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wished the former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner “force to continue fighting,” after visiting her in the department of Buenos Aires where she is serving home prison for corruption.
Lula visits former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner in house arrest
BUENOS AIRES - After participating in Mercosur trade talks in Buenos Aires, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Thursday at her apartment in Buenos Aires, where she is serving a six-year sentence for corruption. Read more at straitstimes.com.
By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - After participating in Mercosur trade talks in Buenos Aires, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernández
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) thanked him this Thursday through an extensive social media release for his visit by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to his residence in the Buenos Aires district of Constitución, where he is serving home prison. READ ALSO: Lula visits Cristina Fernández in his home prison In the text titled "Planned Misery and Low-Intensity State Terrorism", the former Argentine president (2007-2015) stressed t…
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