Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party,he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003,and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as the first ever First Gentleman of Argentina during the first tenure of his wife,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Ideologically,he identified himself as a Peronist with his political approach called Kirchnerism.
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner,often referred to by her initials CFK,is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and later as vice president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023 under President Alberto Fernández,as well as the first lady of Argentina during the tenure of her husband,Néstor Kirchner,from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina and the first elected female president of Argentina. Ideologically,she identifies herself as a Peronist and a progressive,with her political approach called Kirchnerism.
Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician who was Minister of Economy and Production from April 27,2002 until November 28,2005.
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina and the second most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world. It was founded by Roberto Noble in 1945,published by the Clarín Group.
Sergio Edgardo Acevedo is an Argentine politician,formerly a provincial governor of Santa Cruz Province and secretary in the national government.
Aníbal Domingo Fernández is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician,lawyer,and certified public accountant. Throughout his career,he has remained a close ally to the former Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Between 2021 and 2023,he served as Argentina's Minister of Security in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
Alicia Margarita Kirchner Ostoić is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development,a role which she held under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,her sister-in-law,until the end of her presidential term on 9 December 2015. She served two consecutive terms as governor of her native Santa Cruz Province from 2015 to 2023.
Miguel Gustavo Peirano is an Argentine economist and former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. He was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on July 17,2007,in place of Felisa Miceli.
Martín Lousteau is an Argentine economist and politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He is a National Senator for the City of Buenos Aires. Since 2023,he has been President of the UCR National Committee.
Néstor Kirchner,former President of Argentina,died of heart failure on the morning of 27 October 2010 at the Jose Formenti hospital in El Calafate,Santa Cruz Province at the age of 60. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. His wife,President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,was present with him when he died. He was expected to run for president in 2011.
The Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began on 10 December 2007,when she became President of Argentina. She was an Argentine Senator for the Buenos Aires Province at the time of her victory in the 2007 Presidential election. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the second female president of Argentina,and the first one directly elected as such. In elections of November 2015,she was succeeded by Mauricio Macri as President.
Federal Peronism,also known as Dissident Peronism,is the faction or branch of either moderate,centrist or right-wing Peronism,that is currently identified mostly by its opposition to Kirchnerism,the left-wing faction of Peronism.
Axel Kicillof is an Argentine economist and politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires Province since 2019.
Lázaro Báez is an Argentine businessman. Báez is a central figure in the so-called corruption scandal known as The Route of the K-Money,surrounding former Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner;the case was also known as Lázarogate.
Juan Pablo Schiavi is an Argentine agronomist and politician who has held a wide range of positions at the top of national and municipal government of Argentina.
Claudio Uberti is a former Argentinian government official who attained political power through personal ties to the former president Néstor Kirchner,becoming head under Kirchner of the Órgano de Control de Concesiones Viales (OCCOVI),the federal agency that regulates highway concessions.
Máximo Carlos Kirchner is an Argentine politician who has served as a National Deputy since 2015. He is the son of two former presidents of Argentina,Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. A member of the Justicialist Party,he is the co-founder of La Cámpora,a political youth organisation which supported the presidencies of his parents.
Yacimientos Carboníferos Río Turbio is an Argentine coal mining company created in 1994 to replace Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales,along with the privatization of many other state-owned enterprises,the trademark of the national administration of the time. It was created to extract,ship and sell the coal from Rio Turbio and its coal basin. It is the only coal mine in all of Argentina and a geopolitical key are,since it is located in the south west extreme of the country,one of the furthest south settlements of the country.
Pablo Gerardo González is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy and a National Senator for Santa Cruz. A member of the Justicialist Party,González also served as Vice Governor of Santa Cruz under Alicia Kirchner from 2015 to 2019. Since 2021,he has been president of YPF,Argentina's state-owned energy company.
