An Argentine court
authorized Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to
visit Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner, local media reported on Wednesday.
The visit will come weeks after she began serving a
six-year sentence under house arrest for corruption.
Lula is currently in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires,
where he is participating in a two-day summit of leaders from
South American trade bloc Mercosur.
Kirchner, a two-term president from 2007-2015, is among
Argentina’s most prominent politicians of recent decades, though
her leftist brand of populism divides opinion and sets her
firmly against current libertarian President Javier Milei.
She was also vice-president under the former government
of President Alberto Fernandez.
In June, Argentina’s Supreme Court upheld a 2022
conviction against Kirchner related to a fraud scheme involving
public projects in the southern Patagonia region. The ruling
also included a lifetime ban from holding public political
office.
Some analysts have said she could potentially
exercise influence
from her Buenos Aires apartment, where the judge ordered
that the 72-year-old politician serve out her sentence due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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