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Cristina Kirchner Marks 73rd Birthday Under House Arrest With Brief Balcony Greeting

Courts kept strict limits on her home detention, prompting fresh calls for her release.

Overview

  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner greeted supporters from the balcony of her Constitución residence in a short appearance on her birthday, her first public sighting since a recent hospitalization.
  • La Cámara de Casación rejected her latest appeals and left in place restrictions on her house arrest, including limited visiting hours that her lawyers have not managed to relax.
  • La Cámpora coordinated street paintings nationwide with messages backing her freedom and opposing the labor reform as the Chamber of Deputies took up the bill.
  • Allies amplified support on social media, with Máximo Kirchner accusing the judiciary of using her detention as a 'disciplinary' tool and Cecilia Moreau calling her conviction unjust.
  • Her six-year corruption sentence in the Vialidad case was confirmed in June 2025, making this her first birthday under court-ordered home detention.