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Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sentenced to six years in prison on corruption charges, with Kirchner also receiving a lifetime ban on holding public office.
2022-12-6

President Alberto Fernández reshuffles his cabinet, as demanded by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, following the poor turnout of their Peronist and Kirchnerist Frente de Todos coalition in the legislative primary election. Among the appointed ministers include Santiago Cafiero, Julián Domínguez, Aníbal Fernández, and Daniel Filmus.
2021-09-17

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron say the future of the Falkland Islands is up to its inhabitants, not Argentina. His statement comes after the President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged the prime minister to abide by a 1965 UN resolution to "negotiate a solution" to the dispute.
2013-01-3

Addressing the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands the United Kingdom enters negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
2012-06-14

The Argentine Chamber of Deputies approves the bill submitted by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to nationalize 51% of YPF by a 207-32 vote.
2012-05-3

The Argentine Senate passes with an overwhelming majority a bill submitted by president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to nationalise 51% of YPF.
2012-04-26

Spain seeks to deter Argentina's nationalization of YPF, an Argentine oil company majority-owned by Spain's Repsol, warning that such a nationalization would make Argentina a "pariah".
2012-04-13

Actor Sean Penn meets Argentina's president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to voice his support for "the Malvinas Islands of Argentina" and urges Britain to cease its "archaic commitment to colonialist ideology".
2012-02-14

The government of Argentina announces that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has cancer in her thyroid gland, and will have an operation on 4 January and step aside as president for 20 days until 24 January.
2011-12-27

Voters in Argentina go to the polls for a general election, with exit polls showing the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner being reelected in a landslide.
2011-10-23