US EditionLula Visits Former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner in House Arrest
- On July 3, 2025, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a visit to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her residence in Buenos Aires, where she remains under house arrest.
- Last month, Kirchner began serving a six-year prison term for corruption after Argentina’s Supreme Court rejected her final appeal, amid escalating political tensions under President Javier Milei.
- Lula expressed solidarity on social media, describing Kirchner as strong and determined, and called her sentence a product of political persecution similar to his own past convictions.
- Around 100 supporters rallied outside Kirchner’s apartment, where she characterized Lula’s visit as “a political act of solidarity” and denounced the government’s authoritarian drift harming Argentine democracy.
- The visit underscored regional leftist alliances amid concerns over press freedom declines and political repression under Milei’s administration, signaling ongoing resistance to perceived authoritarianism.
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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 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
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