The Trump government forbids Cristina Kirchner to enter the United States

The government of Donald Trump For the former Argentine president announced penalties Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) For his “participation in important corruption acts during his mandate”. The measure, released this Friday by the State Department, also reaches Kirchner’s children and his former planning minister Julio De Vido. Kirchner is the Current president of the peronist party (PJ)The main opposition force to Javier Milei’s government. The Ultra President is, in turn, an admirer declared and an unconditional ally of Trump.

The secretary of state of the United States, Marco Rubio, was the one who reported the decision of the White House. In a statement, he said that the sanction implies that the former president, as well as Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, together with De Vido and the members of his family, They will suffer the ban on entering the American territory.

According to the State Department, Kirchner and Vido “abused their positions to orchestrate and benefit financially of multiple corruption patterns linked to public works contracts”, whose result was “the theft of millions of dollars in the Argentine government”.

The declaration issued by Rubio indicates that “more courts have sentenced Kirchner and Vido for corruption, which undermined the trust of the Argentine people and investors in the future of Argentina”. The document observes that “the United States will continue to promote the responsibility of those who abuse public power to their advantage” and that the measure reaffirms the commitment of the Trump administration “to fight world corruption, even at the highest levels of government”.

In his own way, Milei celebrated the measure of the United States. He republished Rubio’s declaration in his social networks and limited himself to writing: “that, Cristina”, imitating the formula with which the former president usually directs his questions against the president.

Cristina Kirchner took a few minutes to respond to the news that came from the United States. “Will it be for a cryptofof?” “My son will have sexually abused a journalist or a writer in the most expensive shop in New York? Or will there be a corridor of an American prostitute so as not to announce that he had hired his services because he would hurt him in his campaign?” He therefore considered that the sanction was the result of a request from Milei and recalled that the dictators Jorge Videla and Emilio Massera, leader of the state terrorism of the last military dictatorship, “were never forbidden to enter the United States”.

A prison sentence of six years for alleged irregularities in road works, issued in a sentence that has yet to review the Supreme Court of Justice, weighs a sentence of six years in prison. The former vice -president is also accused in other files that have not yet reached the application for the process. The cases that should begin to be judged this year include two in which Kirchner had initially fired, onwards inverted failures: the cause of A memorandum of understanding with Iran and another cause for alleged recycling of money and admission of giftsKnown as Horesur-Los sauces (with the names of hotels owned by the Kirchner family).

The sanction against Kirchner announced by the United States has as the story of requests with that goal that the blonde and other members of the Republican congress during the Joe Biden government had conducted. In a note presented at the end of 2023, the signatories underlined to the former president of Argentina “for corruption acts” and had described it as “a detained cleptocate that stole billions of state coffers and allowed evil actors such as China and will focus their corrupt influence on a critical ally of the United States, in Argentina”. A similar question had been submitted, just before, by the republican senator Ted Cruz.

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