US EditionBrazil’s Lula visits Fernández de Kirchner under house arrest in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, JUL 3 – Lula received judicial approval to visit Kirchner, who is serving a six-year corruption sentence under house arrest, highlighting ongoing political tensions in Argentina, officials said.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a visit to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former Argentine president currently under house arrest in Buenos Aires serving a six-year corruption sentence.
- The visit followed a June Supreme Court ruling that upheld Kirchner's conviction for fraud during her 2007-2015 presidency and authorized the meeting under conditions of house arrest requiring permission for non-family visits.
- Lula attended a Mercosur Summit in Buenos Aires alongside current President Javier Milei, amid tense relations and criticism from Milei who called Lula 'corrupt' and a 'communist', while Kirchner's supporters rallied outside her residence.
- Kirchner called Lula's visit 'a political act of solidarity' on X and said he was also a victim of political persecution, while Lula said he wished to 'personally convey his affection and solidarity' during this difficult moment.
- Lula's visit underscores persistent political tensions in the region and Brazil's new role leading Mercosur, while Kirchner remains permanently prohibited from occupying any public political position amid ongoing legal challenges related to her 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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