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14 unusual facts about Cristina Fernández de Kirchner


Alberto Sileoni

The election of Kirchner's wife, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as President in late 2007 resulted in Sileoni's appointment as second-in-command for Education Minister Juan Carlos Tedesco, a UNESCO official.

Alicia Kirchner

She is the sister of former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she continues to hold under new President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her sister-in-law.

Aníbal Fernández

Aníbal Domingo Fernández (born January 9, 1957) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, who served as Interior Minister for President Néstor Kirchner, Minister of Justice for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and was the President's Cabinet Chief from 2009 to 2011.

Argentina–United Kingdom relations

At the G20 Summit in Mexico in June 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met unexpectedly in a corridor on the fringes of the G20 Summit and exchanged, at least in diplomatic terms, some rather heated words.

Carlos Enrique Meyer

Kirchner's wife and successor, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had the Tourism Secretariat elevated to a cabinet-level post, and on July 1, 2010, Meyer was sworn in as the first Minister of Tourism.

Eduardo Macaluse

The Coalition was Carrió's vehicle to stand for the presidency, in which she came second behind eventual winner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Haggagovic

From the most important leaders Haggagovic met were, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the 35th President of Brazil, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the 55th and current President of Argentina, and many more world leaders and figures in all the countries he visited.

Jorge Taiana

Jorge Enrique Taiana (born May 31, 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, formerly Foreign Minister (canciller) in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Leonardo Favio

On October 9, 2010, Favio was appointed Argentina's Ambassador of Culture by national decree of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Marcelo Lascano

He used to support the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and became critical of them during the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector.

Nacha Guevara

Ahead of the June 2009 legislative elections, Guevara has supported the ruling Front for Victory party of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province, on the list headed by former President Néstor Kirchner.

Roxana Latorre

In February 2009, after Reutemann, also a Justicialist Senator from Santa Fe and her political mentor, announced he was quitting the pro-government Front for Victory block in the Senate, Latorre followed him and announced her break with the block as well, in a political blow to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, Justicialist Party president, and ex-president of the Republic, Néstor Kirchner.

Sebastián Casanello

Casanello was the only federal judge that attended the ceremony of president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who announced a bill for the Congress to reduce the autonomy of the judiciary.

Shan Morgan

Her time in office coincided with sabre-rattling by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who described the British as "an occupying colonial force in the Falkland Islands" (Las Malvinas) in October 2010, when she complained to the UN about "militarisation of the South Atlantic".


Facundo Cabral

The president of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom, called Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to express his condolences, also saying there was evidence that it was an ambush.